Pet Food Consumers Ask U.S. High Court To Hear Appeal On Jurisdiction

Mealey's (September 2, 2020, 2:56 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two consumers who brought a putative class complaint over prescription pet food claims filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on Aug. 6 asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their appeal concerning whether a federal court has subject matter jurisdiction over state law claims concerning the perceived quality of the product and resulting price, arguing that the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling upholding the jurisdictional ruling "introduced chaos into this Court's careful and coherent jurisprudence to determine when federal question jurisdiction will lie over state-law claims" (Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. v. Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al., No. 20-152, U.S. Sup.)....