Legal Opinion
CONNECTU LLC v. Zuckerberg
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 3, 2008No. 07-1796PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
Viewed broadly, this appeal concerns a bitter dispute about the parties’ rights in and to Facebook, a spectacularly successful creature of the information age. Viewed more narrowly, however, it presents a jurisdictional enigma that requires us to decide whether an amended complaint that switches the basis of the district court’s subject matter jurisdiction from the existence of diversity of citizenship, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(1), to the existence of a federal question, id. § 1331, should be given effect when filed as of right before any jurisdictional challenge has…
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