Federal jurisdiction /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wolters Kluwer,
2016
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| Edition: | Seventh edition |
| Series: | Aspen student treatise series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : historical background and contemporary themes
- Constitutional and statutory limits on federal court jurisdiction. Justiciability : constitutional and prudential limits on federal judicial power
- Congressional control of federal and state court jurisdiction
- Congressional power to create legislative courts
- The subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts
- Federal common law
- Federal court relief against governments and government officers. Suits against state governments : the Eleventh Amendment and sovereign immunity
- Federal court relief against local governments and state and local government officers : 42 U.S.C. Section 1983
- Federal court relief against federal officers and the federal government
- Federal court review of state court judgments and proceedings. U.S. Supreme Court review
- Statutory control of the relationship between federal courts and the states
- Federal court abstention because of unclear state law
- Federal court abstention to avoid review of state court judgments or interference with pending state proceedings
- Abstention to avoid duplicative litigation
- Federal court collateral review of criminal convictions : Habeas Corpus