opinion: FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORP., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO FIRST AMERICAN CORP., et al. v. EDWARDS
  No. 10-708.
  Argued November 28, 2011
  Decided June 28, 2012
  Aaron M. Panner argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Michael K. Kellogg, Gregory G. Ra-pawy, Brendan J. Crimmins, Charles A. Newman, and Michael J. Duvall.
  Jeffrey A. Lamken argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Cyril V. Smith, David A. Reiser, Edward Kramer, Robert K. Kry, Martin V To taro, Richard S. Gordon, Martin E. Wolf, and James W. Spertus.
  Anthony A. Yang argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Verrilli, Assistant Attorney General West, Deputy Solicitor General Stewart, Michael Jay Singer, Christine N. Kohl, David M. Gossett, and Deepak Gupta.
  Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for ACA International by Tomio B. Narita and Jeffrey A Topor; for the American Bankers Association et al. by Thomas M. Hefferon and William F. Sheehan; for the American Land Title Association by Roy T. Englert, Jr., and Ariel N. Lavinbuk; for the Association of Global Automakers, Inc., et al. by Donald M. Falk; for the Consumer Data Industry Association by Anne P. Fortney; for DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar et al. by R. Matthew Cairns, Mary Massaron Ross, and Hilary A. Ballentine; for Experian Information Solutions, Inc., by Meir Feder and Daniel J. McLoon; for Facebook, Inc., et al. by Patrick J. Carome; for the International Association of Defense Counsel by Mary-Christine Sungaila and J. Mitchell Smith; for the National Association of Home Builders et al. by Christopher M. Whitcomb, Thomas J. Ward, and Nick Cammarota; for the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys by David M. Schultz, Joel D. Bertocchi, and Stephen R. Swofford; for the New England Legal Foundation et al. by Benjamin G. Robbins, Martin J. Newhouse, Robin S. Conrad, and Kathryn Comer-ford Todd; for the Pacific Legal Foundation et al. by Deborah J. La Fetra, John C. Eastman, and Anthony T Caso; for the Real Estate Services Providers Council, Inc., by Jay N. Varón and Michael D. Lejfel; and for the Stewart Information Services Corp. et al. by Peter D. Keisler, Jonathan F. Cohn, Matthew D. Krueger, and Christine R. Milton.
  Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Missouri et al. by Chris Koster, Attorney General of Missouri, and James R. Layton, Solicitor General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: John J Burns of Alaska, Kamala D. Harris of California, David M. Louie of Hawaii, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Tom Miller of Iowa, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, and Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., of West Virginia; for AARP et al. by Scott L. Nelson and Allison M. Zieve; for the Electronic Privacy Information Center by Marc Rotenberg; for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law et al. by Janell M. Byrd, Jon M. Greenbaum, Stephen M. Dane, John Payton, Debo P. Adegbile, Elise C. Boddie, and Leslie Proll; for the National Association of Independent Land Title Agents by Gregory W. Happ; for Public Law Professors by Jonathan S. Massey; for the Reporter and Advisers to Restatement (Third)-of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment by Douglas Laycock; and for Erick Carter et al. by John T Murray.
  Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Toyota Economic-Loss Plaintiffs by Steve W. Berman, Marc M. Seltzer, and Frank M. Pitre; for Trust Law and ERISA Law Professors by Melanie B. Leslie; and for Birny Birnbaum et al. by Shelley R. Sadin.
  Per Curiam.
  The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.
  It is so ordered.
choices: comity: civil rights comity: criminal procedure comity: First Amendment comity: habeas corpus comity: military comity: obscenity comity: privacy comity: miscellaneous comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals assessment of costs or damages: as part of a court order Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules judicial review of administrative agency's or administrative official's actions and procedures mootness (cf. standing to sue: live dispute) venue no merits: writ improvidently granted no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of jurisdiction (cf. judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal from federal district courts or courts of appeals) no merits: adequate non-federal grounds for decision no merits: remand to determine basis of state or federal court decision (cf. judicial administration: state law) no merits: miscellaneous standing to sue: adversary parties standing to sue: direct injury standing to sue: legal injury standing to sue: personal injury standing to sue: justiciable question standing to sue: live dispute standing to sue: parens patriae standing standing to sue: statutory standing standing to sue: private or implied cause of action standing to sue: taxpayer's suit standing to sue: miscellaneous judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal district courts or territorial courts judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from federal district courts or courts of appeals (cf. 753) judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of the Court of Claims judicial administration: Supreme Court's original jurisdiction judicial administration: review of non-final order judicial administration: change in state law (cf. no merits: remand to determine basis of state court decision) judicial administration: federal question (cf. no merits: dismissed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question) judicial administration: ancillary or pendent jurisdiction judicial administration: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction) judicial administration: certification (cf. objection to reason for denial of certiorari or appeal) judicial administration: resolution of circuit conflict, or conflict between or among other courts judicial administration: objection to reason for denial of certiorari or appeal judicial administration: collateral estoppel or res judicata judicial administration: interpleader judicial administration: untimely filing judicial administration: Act of State doctrine judicial administration: miscellaneous Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction miscellaneous judicial power, especially diversity jurisdiction