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Gautam Rao is an Associate in Wiggin and Dana’s Litigation Department and is a member of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group.

In Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc. v. Wullschleger (No. 23-677), the Supreme Court resolved a jurisdictional dog fight over dog food. If a plaintiff files a complaint containing state- and federal-law claims, the complaint can ordinarily be removed to federal court, and that court will have jurisdiction to resolve all the claims. But what happens if, after removal, the plaintiff eliminates the federal causes of

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On August 19, 2024, Counsel Anjali Dalal and Associate Gautam Rao authored the New York Law Journal article titled, “Public Corruption Prosecutions: Constitutional Issues to Watch.”

Anjali and Gautam discuss United States v. Benjamin and McCormick v. United States and explain how these public corruption prosecutions could test the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent trends: first, the high court’s historical trend of narrowing the scope of

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