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· 4/28/1983

Walthour v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 74 Pa. Commw. 53
  • 458 A.2d 1066
  • 1983 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 1587

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that although a RICO count’s pleading deficiencies warranted dismissal for failure to state a claim, they did not put the count “in the extreme category of cases so frivolous that they fail to invoke the court’s jurisdiction”
  • declining to reach issue of whether district court erred in ex- ercising supplemental jurisdiction over state law claim when appellant raised the issue for the first time on appeal
  • conclud- ing that an objection to the district court’s exercise of supplemental jurisdiction raised for the first time on appeal was waived
  • “Not every complaint alleging a federal claim invokes federal question jurisdiction.”

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Judges: Craig, MacPhail, Rogers

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