For more than three decades, Washington’s highest local court, the D.C. Court of Appeals, has repeatedly warned against treating local courts as national judicial forums.
Just because federal agencies are housed within city limits, the precedent goes, doesn’t mean D.C. courts have jurisdiction to hear every case that involves contact with a federal actor. To allow that, the court has cautioned, could overwhelm dockets and create a disincentive for communicating directly with the federal government.
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