From March 2006 to April 2009, Fane Lozman docked his houseboat at the City of Riviera Beach (“the City”) Marina and used the houseboat as his primary residence. See The City of Riviera Beach v. That Certain Unnamed Gray, Two-Story Vessel Approximately...
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The United States ordered removal of Noel Reyes Mata, a native and citizen of Mexico, from the county in 2010. See Mata v. Holder, 558 F. App'x 366, 367 (5th Cir. 2014). Mata filed a timely petition for appeal of his order of removal with the Board of...
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Greg Manning and others (hereinafter “Manning”), brought a lawsuit against Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., Knight Capital Americas L.P., UBS Securities LLC, E*TRADE Capital Markets LLC, National Financial Services LLC, Citadel...
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MOAC Mall Holdings LLC, or Mall of America (“MOAC”), owns and operates the nation’s largest shopping mall in Bloomington, Minnesota. Brief for Petitioner, MOAC Mall Holdings LLC (“MOAC”) at 6. MOAC entered a lease agreement (the “MOAC Lease”) with the...
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A court's power to hear and decide a case before any appellate review. A trial court must necessarily have original jurisdiction over the types of cases it hears.
OverviewNearly all of the cases considered by the U.S. Supreme Court come to...
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Patel came to the United States from India with his family in 1992. Patel v. Att’y Gen. (“Patel I”) at 1322. Patel entered the country unlawfully in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(A)(i). Under this statute, the government must either admit or...
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Overview
Personal jurisdiction refers to the power that a court has to make a decision regarding the party being sued in a case. Before a court can exercise power over a party, the U.S. Constitution requires that the party has certain minimum contacts...
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Quasi in rem: An Overview
When hearing quasi in rem actions, a court may only affect a named defendant's interest in a specific named piece of property. These actions have similarlities with both in rem and in personam actions. As is the case...
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The European Community sued cigarette manufacturer RJR Nabisco under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ("RICO") Act. See European Community v. RJR Nabisco, Inc., 764 F.3d 129, 132 (2d Cir. 2014). The European Community alleges that...
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In 1994, J. Howard Marshall II, a very wealthy retired oil executive, married Vickie Lynn Marshall (hereinafter “Vickie”); at the time of their marriage, she was 26 and he was 89. See In re Marshall, 600 F.3d 1037, 1041–42 (9th Cir. 2010). Vickie...