Southpark Square Limited, a Mississippi Corporation v. City of Jackson, Mississippi, State Highway Department of the State of Mississippi

How courts have described this case

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• concluding the lack of “any legal substance” to the plaintiffs claim meant that “we cannot avoid the conclusion that its claim is wholly insubstantial and frivolous”
• concluding the lack of “any legal substance” to the plaintiffs claim meant that “we cannot avoid the conclusion that its claim is wholly insubstantial and frivolous”
• “In determining substantiality, we must ask whether there is any legal substance to the position the plaintiff is presenting[.]” (cleaned up)
• a claim “must be more than frivolous to support federal question jurisdiction”
• “[W]e cannot avoid the conclusion that Southpark’s claim is wholly insubstantial and frivolous. Southpark lost its property as a direct consequence of its own financial arrangements and tactical decisions, not because the City committed any act remotely resembling a taking.”

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