United States v. Kemp & Assocs., Inc.

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

*1268 It is axiomatic that federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. See, e.g. , Dutcher v. Matheson , 733 F.3d 980 , 984 (10th Cir. 2013). Bounded first by the strictures of Article III and further by the limits of statutory jurisdiction given to us by Congress, we are powerless to rule on even meritorious questions that lie beyond our purview.

This appeal presents a clean lesson in the import of such jurisdictional restraint. Of the two questions presented for our review, the first-whether the district court correctly dismissed the criminal indictment at issue as…