Dan Epps

And we don't call that gamesmanship, that you settled. But I mean, clearly there must have been a strategic consideration that it is worth it to get away from, we want to get away out of this federal forum, right? Yes. That must have been part of the thought process.

Talk about it. Okay, so we should probably preserve time for the main course. It's a little bit more of an appetizer. Dog food. I'm just going to, if the listeners will forgive the audio issues this will create. I went analog today and actually read on printed paper and not on my e-reader. Do you have an e-reader? I have this thing called a Remarkable.

Talk about it. Okay, so we should probably preserve time for the main course. It's a little bit more of an appetizer. Dog food. I'm just going to, if the listeners will forgive the audio issues this will create. I went analog today and actually read on printed paper and not on my e-reader. Do you have an e-reader? I have this thing called a Remarkable.

I don't have a Remarkable, although I use an iPad Pro for all my...

I don't have a Remarkable, although I use an iPad Pro for all my...

read it yeah i used to but then i like i can't not look at my email every 30 seconds if i'm doing that so i have to the remarkable has no ability to do that so it's the only way to you have a better attention span than me no i just read my email all the time you what i just check my email but you managed to also read long complicated things i just so somehow somehow you you you're able to thread that it happens when i'm someplace without wi-fi well i'm like sitting in the waiting room waiting for my kids someplace that's how i go but i always have wi-fi and how to tether my phone

read it yeah i used to but then i like i can't not look at my email every 30 seconds if i'm doing that so i have to the remarkable has no ability to do that so it's the only way to you have a better attention span than me no i just read my email all the time you what i just check my email but you managed to also read long complicated things i just so somehow somehow you you you're able to thread that it happens when i'm someplace without wi-fi well i'm like sitting in the waiting room waiting for my kids someplace that's how i go but i always have wi-fi and how to tether my phone

Okay. Yeah, I was just – one thing that I noted, and maybe you'd know more about this, it seemed like right around pages 12 and 13 of the opinion, it looked like – is the court kind of just resolving some other questions that have not actually ever been resolved by serving court cases? Yeah. They say, adding federal claims can create federal jurisdiction where it once was wanting.

Okay. Yeah, I was just – one thing that I noted, and maybe you'd know more about this, it seemed like right around pages 12 and 13 of the opinion, it looked like – is the court kind of just resolving some other questions that have not actually ever been resolved by serving court cases? Yeah. They say, adding federal claims can create federal jurisdiction where it once was wanting.

And then their site for that is a First Circuit opinion, right? Is there not a Supreme Court opinion saying that? Or are they just sort of saying, well, let's just decide that too? Is that just totally uncontroversial?

And then their site for that is a First Circuit opinion, right? Is there not a Supreme Court opinion saying that? Or are they just sort of saying, well, let's just decide that too? Is that just totally uncontroversial?

The general, the doctrine that And there's another one they put in the footnotes. They say, to our knowledge, no appellate decision addresses whether, in the final situation discussed, when an amendment eliminates a non-diverse party, the rule in removed cases similarly follows the rule in original cases. So that would be a case where someone...

The general, the doctrine that And there's another one they put in the footnotes. They say, to our knowledge, no appellate decision addresses whether, in the final situation discussed, when an amendment eliminates a non-diverse party, the rule in removed cases similarly follows the rule in original cases. So that would be a case where someone...

removes a case to federal court on the basis of diversity jurisdiction but there is a there's not complete diversity and then yeah the plaintiff like creates complete diversity by removing the non yes party yes okay i think you're right that these are things that are i mean that are not well stated in some court opinions and in general this this whole opinion which is by justice kagan is written as a

removes a case to federal court on the basis of diversity jurisdiction but there is a there's not complete diversity and then yeah the plaintiff like creates complete diversity by removing the non yes party yes okay i think you're right that these are things that are i mean that are not well stated in some court opinions and in general this this whole opinion which is by justice kagan is written as a

Page 14, there's a site to a Seventh Circuit case with the Posner J parenthetical. Those are always interesting to me. Which judges get the judge parentheticals?

Page 14, there's a site to a Seventh Circuit case with the Posner J parenthetical. Those are always interesting to me. Which judges get the judge parentheticals?

I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that using the app we have mentioned on the show before that you refuse to use because you are a Windows person. It doesn't work on my computer. What? I said it doesn't work on my computer.

I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that using the app we have mentioned on the show before that you refuse to use because you are a Windows person. It doesn't work on my computer. What? I said it doesn't work on my computer.

The lovely special app. What is this? I don't remember what the app is called. Case Viewer that gives you instant fingertip access to cases from the Supreme Court and other courts. And you called it Judge Celia. who is the judge who goes out of his way to use the kind of pretentious words.