Federal courts
Subtitle: context, cases, and problems
By: Michael P. Allen, Michael Finch, Caprice L. Roberts.
Contributors: Finch, Michael, 1952-; Roberts, Caprice L.
Series: Law & business
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1084
ISBN-13: 9780735574809
Subjects: Courts -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 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: Expanding the constitutional "case " through supplemental jurisdiction 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: The power of federal courts to make federal law; title: The original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and appellate jurisdiction in the federal courts; title: Habeas corpus.