Task: songer_stateclaim

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. You will be asked a question pertaining to some threshold issue at the trial court level. These issues are only considered to be present if the court of appeals is reviewing whether or not the litigants should properly have been allowed to get a trial court decision on the merits. That is, the issue is whether or not the issue crossed properly the threshhold to get on the district court agenda. The issue is: "Did the court dismiss the case because of the failure of the plaintiff to state a claim upon which relief could be granted?" Answer the question based on the directionality of the appeals court decision. If the court discussed the issue in its opinion and answered the related question in the affirmative, answer "Yes". If the issue was discussed and the opinion answered the question negatively, answer "No". If the opinion considered the question but gave a mixed answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part, answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion does not discuss the issue, or notes that a particular issue was raised by one of the litigants but the court dismissed the issue as frivolous or trivial or not worthy of discussion for some other reason, answer "Issue not discussed". If the opinion considered the question but gave a "mixed" answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part (or if two issues treated separately by the court both fell within the area covered by one question and the court answered one question affirmatively and one negatively), answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion either did not consider or discuss the issue at all or if the opinion indicates that this issue was not worthy of consideration by the court of appeals even though it was discussed by the lower court or was raised in one of the briefs, answer "Issue not discussed".The issue hereby considered also pertains to cases where the court concluded that there was no proper cause of action.

ORDER
PER CURIAM.
On consideration of the motion of the Federal Power Commission to transfer the above-entitled cases to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and of the responsive pleadings filed with respect thereto, it is
Ordered by the Court that the aforesaid motion to transfer is hereby granted, and these cases are hereby transferred to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in accordance with the opinion of this Court attached hereto.
PER CURIAM:
We have given consideration to the Federal Power Commission’s motion to transfer the above-entitled proceedings to the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and the oppositions and responses filed thereto. We are by no means confident that the difference of two seconds in the stamped filing time of the petitions filed in this Circuit and in the 5th Circuit is sufficiently meaningful to establish the automatic application of the mandate of 28 U.S.C. § 2112(a), or whether a different disposition might be permissible. However the matter need not be explored so far as the instant controversy is concerned since the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is “familiar with the background of the controversy through review of the same or related proceedings” by virtue of its consideration in Southern Louisiana Area Rate Cases v. FPC, 428 F.2d 407 (1970), and accordingly transfer to that circuit is in the public interest under the approach followed in Eastern Air Lines v. CAB, 122 U.S.App.D.C. 375, 354 F.2d 507 (1965). The motion to transfer is granted.
We do not pass on the contention of petitioner Municipal Distributors Group, in opposition to the motion to transfer, that the petitions to review filed in the Fifth Circuit represent “blatant forum shopping” in a case involving hundreds of millions of dollars in rates for natural gas produced in Southern Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico, and that these petitions to review, filed by Placid Oil Company and its co-petitioners, various Hunt interests, reflect only a technical “aggrievement” and that any shortfall in the relief they requested of the Federal Power Commission is not significant enough to support their determining choice of forum. This court has recognized that sound doctrine resists “forum shopping” in a case of mere technical aggrievement, see International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, U.A.W.-A.F.L.-C.I.O. et al. v. NLRB, 126 U.S.App.D.C. 11, 373 F.2d 671, 674 (1967). However, it is for the Fifth Circuit where the pertinent petition to review was filed, to study it and consider whether that doctrine is applicable.
So ordered.
See International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, A.F.L.-C.I.O. v. National Labor Relations Board, 120 U.S.App.D.C. 45, 343 F.2d 327 (1965).

Question: Did the court dismiss the case because of the failure of the plaintiff to state a claim upon which relief could be granted?
A. No
B. Yes
C. Mixed answer
D. Issue not discussed
Answer:

Answer: D