Currie's Federal Courts: Cases and Materials, 4th / Edition 4

by David P. Currie

Overview

Spells out the basic contours of district court jurisdiction in federal question, admiralty, and diversity cases, with notes on venue and on the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction. Tells the student something about the applicable law governing federal proceedings, including remedies against government officers. Deals with limitations on the exercise of jurisdiction that cuts across the various jurisdictional categories: sovereign and official immunities and a variety of statutory and judicial abstention doctrines. Follows the litigant into situations in which a federal court is asked to pass upon what another tribunal has already done.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780314744852
Publisher:	West Group
Publication date:	08/28/1990
Series:	American Casebook Series
Edition description:	4th ed
Pages:	783
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 10.30(h) x 1.60(d)

Table of Contents

Preface		xxi
Table of Cases		xxxi
Introductory Note on the Federal Judicial System		1	(5)
Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution		6	(133)
Introduction		6	(13)
Judicial Review		19	(13)
Justiciability and Standing		32	(66)
Congressional Power to Curtail Jurisdiction		98	(16)
Judicial Power Outside Article III		114	(25)
Federal-Question and Admiralty Cases		139	(88)
Identifying Federal-Question Cases		139	(49)
The Scope of a "Case"		188	(12)
Maritime Cases		200	(27)
The Diversity Jurisdiction and the Appropriate Federal Forum		227	(100)
The Determination of Citizenship		231	(13)
"Complete" Diversity and Ancillary Jurisdiction		244	(23)
Corporations and Other Associations		267	(27)
The Jurisdictional Amount		294	(15)
The Place of Trial and the Supreme Court's Original Jurisdiction		309	(18)
The Applicable Law		327	(106)
The Erie Problem		327	(26)
The Federal Common Law		353	(26)
Remedies Against Government Officials		379	(47)
Federal Law in State Courts		426	(7)
Sovereign Immunity and Related Problems		433	(52)
The Eleventh Amendment and Sovereign Immunity		433	(41)
Official and Congressional Immunities		474	(11)
Abstention and Such		485	(88)
Pullman Abstention and Certification		485	(12)
State Administrative Agencies and Taxes		497	(17)
Injunctions Against Suit		514	(42)
Pending Actions and Other Problems		556	(17)
Appellate and Collateral Review in the Federal Courts		573	(198)
Direct Appellate Review		573	(35)
Habeas Corpus and Post-Conviction Relief		608	(47)
Appendices
A. Current Statutes and Rules		655	(100)
B. The Judiciary Act of 1789		755	(16)
Index		771