On appeal, the Circuit did not address
the issue of subject matter jurisdiction first, relying on the Circuit's practice from time to time of «exercising discretion to consider an FNC dismissal without first adjudicating issues of subject matter jurisdiction».
Not exact matches
Jay - Z argued, among other things, that the federal court lacked
subject matter jurisdiction over alleged violations
of Egyptian «moral rights,» but in an opinion
issued on May 2, 2011, U.S. Judge Christina Snyder disagreed.
Courts and commentators have consistently considered that «
matters» refers to the
subject matter that is encompassed by the arbitration agreement and thus
subject to the
jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal that
issued the award in question.812
In Reasons
issued on behalf
of a unanimous court, Justice LeBel reiterated that
jurisdiction must be based upon a «real and substantial connection» between a particular forum and the
subject matter of the litigation and that the determination
of whether there is such a connection must not be a
matter of pure judicial discretion but, rather, be based upon a clear set
of presumptive factors that will be applied to whether the courts
of a particular province can take
jurisdiction.
In the Smith Rocke case, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of New York
issued a decision on January 27, 2014, holding that it lacked
subject matter jurisdiction under the FSIA for similar reasons.
An objection to
jurisdiction on the ground
of exemption from the process
of the court in which the suit is brought, or the manner in which a defendant is brought into it, is waived by appearance and pleading to
issue, but when the objection goes to the power
of the court over the parties or the
subject matter, the defendant need not, for he can not, give the plaintiff a better writ.
It was significant that, in this case, the
subject -
matter of the proposed appeals was a ruling by the commissioner on a fundamental legal
issue of jurisdiction.