TY - BOOK AU - Howard P. Fink AU - Fink,Howard P. TI - Federal courts in the 21st century: cases and materials SN - 0820570249 (hard cover : alk. paper) AV - KF8719 .F425 2007 U1 - 347.73 FED 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Newark, NJ PB - Lexisnexis Matthew Bender KW - Courts KW - United States KW - Jurisdiction KW - Judicial power KW - Casebooks KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The structure of federal jurisdiction -- The judicial role : the justiciability doctrines -- Congress's power to regulate jurisdiction -- The potential reach of federal jurisdiction -- Using the federal courts to regulate state government : the basic concepts -- Implied rights of action : "constitutional" and statutory -- The statutory federal-question jurisdiction -- Diversity and alienage jurisdiction -- Supplemental jurisdiction -- Removal -- The place of trial, the law applied, and choice of law in the federal trial courts -- Federal common law -- Aggregative procedure -- Expanding and restricting complex federal litigation -- Allocation of authority between life- tenured federal judges and other adjudicatiors, and between courts of exclusive and courts of concurrent jurisdiction -- Federal appellate jurisdiction : Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court -- Interjurisdictional preclusion -- Federal Habeas Corpus for state prisoners -- The Military Commissions Act of 2006 and suspension of Habeas Corpus UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007018862.html ER -