Court's ability to hear, refuse, or move a case
LIST Code: CO-07-03-00-00
LIST Code
CO-07-03-00-00
Title
Court's ability to hear, refuse, or move a case
Definition
This category covers situations when a person tries to bring a lawsuit in a court, and the court's decision and rationale about whether to hear or refuse the case. This could be based on issues like jurisdiction, whether there is a case and question, whether the issue has already been resolved, or other issues.
Terms within it
- Court Abstaining from hearing a case
- Court's Jurisdiction to hear a case
- Court's decision whether there is a case and controversy
- Estoppel to stop an issue being raised again
- Immunity from lawsuits or prosecution
- Litigant's exhaustion of remedies in original court
- Removing a case from state to federal court
- Res Judicata to stop a claim being raised again
- Standing of a person to bring a lawsuit
- Statute of Limitation to bring a lawsuit
- Transferring a case to another venue