Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1988-06-17

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Justice Brennan delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires that we decide a peculiar jurisdictional battle between the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Each court has adamantly disavowed jurisdiction over this case. Each has transferred the case to the other. And each insists that the other’s jurisdictional decision is “clearly wrong.” <pag…

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