( May 8, 2026, 12:08 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a consumer’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision holding that federal courts must give defendants, when opposing remand by plaintiffs who seek only equitable relief, an opportunity to keep their case in federal court by waiving the adequate-remedy-at-law defense, which the consumer had argued violates a nonwaivable “structural limitation” on federal jurisdiction....