Pettway v. Crews

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing that federal courts may take jurisdiction over fee disputes “where the district court had control over the disputed funds” or “where resolution of the fee dispute enables the court to resolve the underlying action over which the court has jurisdiction”
• vacating the trial court’s order granting an attorney’s charging lien because, among other reasons, “the funds have been distributed and thus the District Court had no control over them”
• “The burden of demonstrating that a case falls within the jurisdiction of the federal court rests upon the party asserting jurisdiction.”
• “[W]e have found that ancillary jurisdiction does not extend to the resolution of post-settlement fee disputes between attorneys when only one party was an attorney of record.”
• “[W]e have found that ancillary jurisdiction does not extend to the resolution of post-settlement fee disputes between attorneys when only one party was an attorney of record.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).