Easterbrook quotes

[Engelken, Sheri]

Check out Belleville Catering v. Champaign Marketplace (7th Cir. 2003),
where the parties apparently got all the way to the 7th Circuit after a
jury trial without having federal jurisdiction.  A few choice nuggets:

"Once again litigants' insouciance toward the requirements of federal
jurisdiction has caused a waste of time and money."  

"[C]ounsel could have done what the court did: use the Internet."  

"This passage - and there is more in the same vein - leaves us agog.
Just where do appellate courts acquire authority to decide on the merits
a case over which there is no federal jurisdiction? The proposition that
the Seventh Circuit has done so in the past - a proposition unsupported
by any citation - accuses the court of dereliction combined with
usurpation."

"The costs of a doomed foray into federal court should fall on the
lawyers who failed to do their homework, not on the hapless clients."


SJE

Sheri J Engelken
Gonzaga University School of Law
PO Box 3528
721 N Cincinnati
Spokane, WA 99220
509 313 5891 - PLEASE NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER
sengelken at lawschool.gonzaga.edu 

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Let me know if you don't have the fabulous quote involving the nude  
peace sign in a state park in Florida and I can dig it out - it is  
something like "Ms. ______, clad only in the first amendment......"
Lynne Williams
13 Albert Meadow
Bar Harbor, ME  04609
207-266-6327


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