Integrating Supplemental Jurisdiction and Diversity Jurisdiction: A Progress Report on the Work of the American Law Institute

scope of the Project were at odds with the waning ambitions of the Advisers with respect to the particular recommendations of P.D. No. 1. The consensus among the Advisers was that a formal revision of the basic statutes conferring original jurisdiction on the federal district courts would pose a grave risk of unintended consequences, especially in light of the present vogue for a "plain meaning" approach to legislative construction that might result in disregard of history and precedent as a guide to the interpretation of statutes revised only to make clear textually the conditions of their application long established by case law. The Advisers were enthusiastic, however, about the basic premise that federal jurisdiction operates in a claim-specific fashion, and the consensus was 30. With the exception of Mr. Grinder, who represents the United States Department of Justice, all of the Advisers are members of the ALI. In the following roster, an asterisk designates those Advisers who also serve on the Council, and a dagger designates those who served previously on the ad hoc advisory panel: *tBennett Boskey, Washington, District of Columbia; *tEdward H. Cooper, The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; tWilliam A. Fletcher, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, California (at the time of his appointment as an Adviser, Judge Fletcher was a Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, California); Richard D. Freer, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia; Susan P. Graber, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Portland, Oregon (at the time of her appointment as an Adviser, Judge Graber was serving as an Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court); Gary Grinder, Washington, District of Columbia; Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ex officio as Director of the Institute); fPatricia M. Hynes, New York, New York; Rende M. Landers, Boston, Massachusetts; David F. Levi, Judge, United Sates District Court for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento, California; *1 Vincent L. McKusick, Portland, Maine; Retired Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Maine; tDaniel J. Meltzer, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ronald L. Olson, Los Angeles, California; *Roswell B. Perkins, New York, New York (ex officio as Chair of the Council); Thomas R. Phillips, Chief Justice, Texas Supreme Court, Austin, Texas; Mary Kristina Pickering, Las Vegas, Nevada; *Louis H. Pollak, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Joseph F. Spaniol, Jr., Bethesda, Maryland; 'Joan E. Steinman, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois; *tPatricia M. Wald, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, District of Columbia; and *Charles Alan Wright, Austin, Texas (ex officio as President of the Institute). See T.D. No. 2, supra note 10, at v. 1998]