In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. The Original Jurisdiction ...

argues that Congress’s statutory mandate that the “Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States” requires the Court to allow ...

CAFA grants district courts original jurisdiction over any class action where the amount in controversy exceeds $5 million and there is minimal diversity among the parties, Cummings noted.

which is shaped after Article III Section 2 of that of the United States and which reads that the Supreme Court shall have “original jurisdiction” (i.e. not on appeal) “in all matters ...