Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)

Citation: Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Parent Document: Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2018-05-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4502306/heriberto-rodriguez-v-county-of... ↗

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Unlike defects in constitutional or statutory jurisdiction,
which deprive a court of the power to act and thus void
actions taken while jurisdiction was lacking, see, e.g., U.S.
Catholic Conference v. Abortion Rights Mobilization, Inc.,
487 U.S. 72, 76–77 (1988), an error in following our circuit’s
divestiture procedure does not entirely eliminate the authority
of the district court to hear a case. We have “decline[d] to
apply the divestiture rule in a slavish manner that ignores the
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