McKnight, E. v. Common Pleas Ct. of Phila.

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• holding that domestic relations exception to federal jurisdiction “divests the federal courts of power to issue divorce, alimony, and child custody decrees”
• holding that the domestic relations exception to diversity jurisdiction divests federal courts of jurisdiction to review child custody orders under § 1332, as well
• holding that the “domestic relations exception . . . divests the federal courts of power to issue divorce, alimony, and child custody decrees”
• holding that the domestic relations exception to federal jurisdiction “divests the federal courts of power to issue divorce, alimony, and child custody decrees”
• holding that the domestic-relations exception “divests the federal courts of power to issue divorce, alimony, and child custody decrees”
• holding that even where diversity jurisdiction was satisfied, federal courts are divested of the power “to issue divorce, alimony, and child custody decrees”

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