A US district judge in Washington has agreed to send a case back to a Texas federal court after the Fifth Circuit said it was improperly transferred out.
US District Judge Jia Cobb said in Wednesday’s ruling that the issue is one that she “admittedly, has not encountered before,” but that the “overwhelming weight of authority” supports returning the lawsuit to the court where it was first filed. The case challenges a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) decision to revoke permission for a political betting marketplace.
A trial judge in the Western District of Texas had ordered that the case ...
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