Legal Opinion
Household Bank v. JFS Group
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 7, 2003No. 02-11990PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the district court erred in dismissing this declaratory judgment action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, notwithstanding the existence of an actual controversy between the parties regarding non-frivolous federal claims that could be brought by the defendants in a coercive action. The district court held that it lacked subject-matter jurisdiction because the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the anticipated coercive action could, but would not necessarily present a federal question due to the availability of state-law claims. In…
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