Vindication of property rights : improving citizen's access to justice : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session on H.R. 1534, an act to simplify and expedite access to the federal courts for injured parties whose rights and privileges, secured by the United States Constitution, have been deprived by final actions of federal agencies, or other government officials or entities acting under color of state law; to prevent federal courts from abstaining from exercising federal jurisdiction in actions where no state law claims is alleged; to permit certification of unsettled state law questions that are essential to resolving federal claims arising under the Constitution; and to clarify when government action is sufficiently final to ripen certain federal claims arising under the Constitution, October 7, 1997.