Wesley Eubanks v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Defendants

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• holding only that prisoners’ federal claims regarding various funds were “minimally sufficient to require a decision on the merits” but “express[ing] no further views on the merits” of whether the prisoners adequately alleged a deprivation of property rights
• reversing trial court’s order that dismissed inmates’ takings claims for want of jurisdiction because their claims were “minimally sufficient to require a decision on the merits”
• “When the basis of federal jurisdiction is intertwined with the plaintiff’s federal cause of action, the court should assume jurisdiction over the case and decide the case on the merits.”
• “Because the federal causes of action in appellants’ complaint were neither immaterial nor frivolous, the district court erred in dismissing this case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.”

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