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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 04:14:43+00:00

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1. Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(1). Plaintiffs do not need to cite the statutory basis of federal court jurisdiction as long as they plead sufficient facts to establish jurisdiction. See Andrus v. Charlestone Stone Products Company, 436 U.S. 604, 608 n.6 (1978); Radici v. Associated Insurance Companies, 217 F.3d 737, 740 (9th Cir. 2000); Jensen v. Schweiker, 709 F.2d 1227, 1229 (8th Cir. 1983). If the defendant facially challenges the jurisdictional allegations by arguing that they are insufficient to invoke federal jurisdiction, the court will employ a Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) standard and assume the truth of sufficiently pled jurisdictional allegation for purposes of resolving the motion. If the defendant challenges the truth of the factual assertions, the court will consider evidence outside the pleading and impose on the plaintiff the burden of demonstrating the facts asserted to warrant federal jurisdiction. Safe Air for Everyone v. Meyer, 373 F.3d 1035, 1039 (9th Cir. 2004), cert. denied, 544 U.S. 1018 (2005). See 2 James Wm. Moore, et al., Moore's Federal Practice - Civil section 12-30 (2010).
2. 28 U.S.C. § 1446(a).
3. See Section 2.9 for a discussion of state court jurisdiction over federal claims.
4. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(h)(3) .
5. Arbaugh v. Y&H Corp., 546 U.S. 500, 506-07 (2006); see also Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, 559 U.S. 154, 130 S. Ct. 1237 (2010) (copyright registration requirement in Copyright Act is not jurisdictional and does not preclude federal jurisdiction over suits to enforce copyright claims by those who failed to register their copyright). The Supreme Court listed cases in which it found certain requirements jurisdictional and nonwaivable and others waivable claims processing requirements in Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 558 U.S. 67, 130 S. Ct. 584, 596-97 (2009).
6. Arbaugh, 546 U.S. at 511.
7. Arbaugh, 546 U.S. 500.
8. Id. at 515 (noting that 15-employee threshold requirement was not in jurisdiction section of statute). Compare CNA v. United States, 535 F.3d 132, 140-43 (3d Cir. 2008) (scope of employment limitation in Federal Tort Claims Act is jurisdictional as it is in same sentence as grant of jurisdiction).
9. Henderson v. Shinseki, 131 S. Ct. 1197 (2011).
11. The Court reached the same result in Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center, 133 S. Ct. 817, 824-26 (2013), where it found a Medicare statute that permitted providers to appeal reimbursement decisions to a board within 180 days not to be jurisdictional.

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