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· 4/26/2007

Mariko L.A. Bennett v. Southwest Airlines Co., the Boeing Company, and City of Chicago

Citations

  • 484 F.3d 907
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 9453
  • 2007 WL 1215055

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that federal jurisdiction was lacking because, among other reasons, the plaintiffs did not “challenge the validity of any federal agency’s or employee’s action”
  • holding that federal jurisdiction was lacking because, among other reasons, the plaintiffs did not “challenge the validity of any federal agency's or employee's action”
  • holding that federal jurisdiction was lacking because, among other reasons, the plaintiffs did not “challenge the validity of any federal agency’s or employee’s action”
  • holding that federal jurisdiction was lacking because, among other reasons, the plaintiffs did not “challenge the validity of any federal agency’s or employee’s action”
  • holding that federal jurisdiction was lacking when the case required “a fact-specific application of rules that come from both federal and state law rather than a context-free inquiry into the meaning of a federal law”
  • finding that that “the dominant role that federal law plays in air transport” does not create federal question jurisdiction

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Judges: Easterbrook, Bauer, Wood

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