The Supreme Court only has
appellate jurisdiction over this case; the district court is the entity that has the authority to decide this on first instance.
Not exact matches
I have no idea where the CJ would get the authority not just to reach down and expedite a pending appeal but to order that
cases in varying states of disarray (and maybe some have not even been filed yet) resolved at the trial level and the first
appellate level and brought up to the Court of Appeals, IF the top court even has
jurisdiction over each distinct dispute, within a fixed time.
Finally, there is another
jurisdiction - specific component here that detractors appear to gloss
over, and it's one that has been highlighted in the respective TWU
cases at the
appellate level.
The
appellate court explained that if the City had sovereign immunity from suit, the lower court would not have subject matter
jurisdiction over the
case.
Court's
Jurisdiction Over Procedural Requirements In the
case of In re Marriage of Dorman, 9 P. 3d 329 (2000), the
appellate court considered a promissory note signed only by one spouse.
The decision halts a 27 - year old expansion of venue in patent
cases which began in 1990 when an
appellate court expanded venue from a corporation's state of incorporation to any district where personal
jurisdiction could be established
over the alleged infringer.
A relatively recent
case in the federal
appellate court that has
jurisdiction over Florida federal courts held that claims based on sexual orientation are not covered by the federal law governing employment discrimination.
The district court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim, and Turner appealed to the Eleventh Circuit (which has
appellate jurisdiction over federal
cases arising from Alabama, Georgia and Florida).
When, therefore, Congress enacts that this court shall have
appellate jurisdiction over final decisions of the Circuit Courts in certain
cases, the act operates as a negation or exception of such
jurisdiction in other
cases, and the repeal of the act necessarily negatives
jurisdiction under it of these
cases also.