Federal Removal Case Law - Indiana Children's Right Council is Source of Templates for Initial Filing

Federal court judges, often wrongly, remand these back to state courts. Recent cases have made it very clear that if you are not seeking custody, alimony of child support ruling then it is NOT an except under the "Domestic Relations Exception".

a 1976 (pre-Monell) diversity employment case?? not applicable to our suits.

 
the jist of the dismissal was non-diversity, so also no diversity jurisdiction...
 
doesn't apply at all... also, the notion of "county not person" was struck down by Monell the very next year...
 
1. Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Servs., Nos. 04-70 and 04-79 , SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  March 1, 2005, Argued,  June 23, 2005, Decided ** Together with No. 04-79, del Rosario Ortega et al. v. Star-Kist Foods, Inc., on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

2. Finley v. United States, No. 87-1973 , SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ,   February 28, 1989, Argued,   May 22, 1989, Decided

3. Pennhurst State Sch. & Hosp. v. Halderman, No. 81-2101 , SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ,  February 22, 1983, Argued,  January 23, 1984, Decided

4. Martinez v. Cal., No. 78-1268 , SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ,  November 5, 1979, Argued,  January 15, 1980, Decided

5. Symm v. United States, No. 77-1688, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  January 15, 1979, Decided

6. Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger, No. 77-677, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  April 18, 1978, Argued,  June 21, 1978, Decided

7. Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., No. 75-1914 , SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ,  November 2, 1977, Argued,  June 6, 1978, Decided

8. Aldinger v. Howard, No. 74-6521, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  Argued March 24, 1976,  June 24, 1976

9. Aldinger v. Howard, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  October 6, 1975

Lots more to come soon.