Federal jurisdiction
By: Erwin Chemerinsky
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1176
ISBN-13: 9781454804024
Subjects: Jurisdiction; Courts
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: historical background and contemporary themes; title: Justiciability : constitutional and prudential limits on federal judicial power; title: Congressional control of federal and state court jurisdiction; title: Congressional power to create legislative courts; title: The subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts; title: Federal common law; title: Suits against state governments : the Eleventh Amendment and sovereign immunity; title: Federal court relief against local governments and state and local government officers : 42 U.S.C. 1983; title: Federal court relief against federal officers and the federal government; title: United States Supreme Court review; title: Statutory control of the relationship between federal courts and the states; title: Federal court abstention because of unclear state law; title: Federal court abstention to avoid interference with pending state proceedings; title: Abstention to avoid duplicative litigation; title: Federal court collateral review of criminal convictions : habeas corpus.