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Who, exactly, has ‘jurisdiction’ if a Federal Court doesn’t?


4 posted on 12/12/2022 10:47:18 AM PST by servantoftheservant
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To: servantoftheservant
Who, exactly, has ‘jurisdiction’ if a Federal Court doesn’t?

The federal court that granted the warrant in the first place is the one with jurisdiction. Instituting a separate civil lawsuit over the scope or execution of a warrant was very unusual. And the court of appeals determined that the second federal court did not have jurisdiction over a case already in a different federal court.

Realistically, Trump's lawsuit was a huge longshot.

5 posted on 12/12/2022 11:00:12 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: servantoftheservant
Who, exactly, has ‘jurisdiction’ if a Federal Court doesn’t?

Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. They only have the jurisdiction specifically granted to them by statute and the Constitution. There is no statute giving a district court the jurisdiction to hear Trump's lawsuit.

Trump's lawsuit relied on a series of lower-court cases recognizing an "exceptional," "anomalous" form of equitable jurisdiction to order the government to return property seized under a search warrant before any indictment. The 11st Circuit held that the factors courts have held necessary to support such jurisdiction were absent here.

10 posted on 12/12/2022 11:43:34 AM PST by The Pack Knight
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