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ARTHUR YOUNG & CO. v. CITY OF RICHMOND

No. 89-2963.

895 F.2d 967 (1990)

ARTHUR YOUNG & COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF RICHMOND, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 9, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandy Thomas Tucker (William R. Mauck, Jr., Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins, P.C., Richmond, Va., Steven L. Cohen, Arthur Young & Co., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Warren Eugene Zirkle (Elizabeth F. Edwards, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Va., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and SPENCER, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Arthur Young & Company appeals the district court's dismissal, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, of Arthur Young's action against the City of Richmond for copyright infringement and various state law claims. The district court reasoned that the case "plainly and essentially" involved a state law contract dispute, requiring no construction of federal copyright law, and accordingly granted the City's motion for dismissal under Fed...

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