Ford Motor Company v. United States (2013)
- Docket
- 13-113
- Decided
- 2013-01-01
Summary
Question: Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit properly hear and decide the case? Conclusion: No. In a per curiam decision, the Court held that, because the Government changed its jurisdictional argument in the reply to the petition for certiorari, the case should have been heard in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims rather than the federal district court. The Supreme Court is a court of final review, not first review, and therefore the new jurisdictional claim should have been heard by a lower court before being argued before the Supreme Court. The Court vacated the decision and remanded the case for further proceedings.