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University of South Alabama v. American Tobacco Co.

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Good law
Court
Eleventh Circuit
Citation
168 F.3d 405
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
66 of 66
Citing cases (total)
66

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. University of South Alabama v. American Tobacco Co. remains good law on the duty to examine federal jurisdiction and resolve doubts about removal in favor of remand. All 66 flagged citations have been read, and no adverse treatment was confirmed.
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The citing courts applied its jurisdiction and remand principles.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

66 later cases cite University of South Alabama v. American Tobacco Co.; 66 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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