Federal courts
Subtitle: context, cases, and problems
By: Michael P. Allen, Stetson University College of Law; Michael Finch, Stetson University College of Law; Caprice L. Roberts, Savannah Law School
Contributors: Finch, Michael, 1952- author; Roberts, Caprice L., author
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1138
ISBN-13: 9781454822660
Subjects: Courts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Federal court system : structure and themes; title: Justiciability and the judicial function; title: Congressional control of Federal jurisdiction and decisionmaking; title: Allocation of jurisdiction to non-Article III tribunals; title: "Arising under" jurisdiction; title: Diversity jurisdiction; title: Augmenting Federal courts' power through the exercise of supplemental and removal jurisdiction; title: The Eleventh Amendment and state sovereign immunity; title: The special case of Section 1983; title: Protecting state courts from interference by Federal courts; title: Federal courts' power to make Federal law; title: The original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and appellate jurisdiction in the Federal courts; title: Habeas corpus.