In returning the case to Crabb, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned one of its prior rulings on jurisdiction and found that Crabb could decide whether the unilateral changes NewPage announced violate federal retirement law protections and other issues in the case. "Because the Wisconsin district court has subject-matter jurisdiction over all issues, and personal jurisdiction over all of the contestants, the declaratory-judgment suit now seems a more attractive means of handling the controversy than it did while the Ohio litigation was ongoing," wrote appeals Judge Frank Easterbrook.