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Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. v. Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, No. 19-2645 · judgment March 13, 2020

Certiorari denied · October 19, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Petitioners’ class action complaint brought in state court seeking relief under Missouri law for respondents’ marketing of fake prescription pet food products raised neither a substantial nor a disputed federal question. In ruling nonetheless that federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over this suit, did the court of appeals introduce chaos into this Court’s coherent jurisprudence about when federal question jurisdiction will lie over state-law claims?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Daniel R. Shulman
Shulman & Buske PLLC

For respondent
Christopher M. Curran
White & Case LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 19 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 30 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
  3. Sep 14 2020
    Brief of respondent Nestlé Purina PetCare Company in opposition filed.
  4. Aug 06 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 14, 2020)