Graeff v. Ashcroft

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION ALISON GRAEFF, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) No. 4:22-CV-971 RLW ) JOHN R. ASHCROFT, Missouri Secretary ) of State, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER This matter is before the Court on its own motion. “Courts have an independent obligation to determine whether subject-matter jurisdiction exists[.]” Hertz Corp. v. Friend,

559 U.S. 77, 94

(2010). “Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. The requirement that jurisdiction be established as a threshold matter springs from the nature and limits of the…