Federal courts in the 21st century :

Howard P. Fink

Federal courts in the 21st century : cases and materials / Howard P. Fink ... [et al.]. - 3rd ed. - Newark, NJ : Lexisnexis Matthew Bender, 2007. - xxxvii, 1028 p. ; 26 cm. + teacher's manual.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The structure of federal jurisdiction -- The judicial role : the justiciability doctrines -- Congress's power to regulate jurisdiction -- The potential reach of federal jurisdiction -- Using the federal courts to regulate state government : the basic concepts -- Implied rights of action : "constitutional" and statutory -- The statutory federal-question jurisdiction -- Diversity and alienage jurisdiction -- Supplemental jurisdiction -- Removal -- The place of trial, the law applied, and choice of law in the federal trial courts -- Federal common law -- Aggregative procedure -- Expanding and restricting complex federal litigation -- Allocation of authority between life- tenured federal judges and other adjudicatiors, and between courts of exclusive and courts of concurrent jurisdiction -- Federal appellate jurisdiction : Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court -- Interjurisdictional preclusion -- Federal Habeas Corpus for state prisoners -- The Military Commissions Act of 2006 and suspension of Habeas Corpus.

0820570249 (hard cover : alk. paper)

2007018862


Courts--United States.
Jurisdiction--United States.
Judicial power--United States.


Casebooks

KF8719 / .F425 2007

347.73 FED

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