Section 1983 Litigation, Section Edition analyzes the fundamental issues that arise in litigation under 42 U.S.C. - 1983, and the case law interpreting those issues.
This article presents attorney responses to a national random survey of 728 attorneys who represented plaintiffs and defendants in 621 recently closed class action cases.
Letter to the Chair of the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding current research plans in the area of the committee's rulemaking authority under 28 USC § 1292(e).
Paul D. Carrington, J. Clifford Wallace, William W Schwarzer, Nancy E. Weiss, Alan Hirsch, Ellen A. Peters, Edward B. McConnell, Victor E. Flango, Maria Gibson
August 1, 1993
This issue of FJC Directions provides highlights of the papers presented at the National Conference on State-Federal Judicial Relationships, held in April 1992, and of the discussions the papers prompted.
Videotaped presentation to newly appointed district judges on federal subject-matter jurisdiction. Provides a detailed discussion of the four types of federal jurisdiction: federal question, diversity, removal, and supplemental.
A brief introduction to the statutory law, case law, and rules of court governing the U.S. courts of appeals. The author traces the appeals process and analyzes jurisdictional requirements for final and interlocutory appeals, criminal appeals, review by writ, and agency appeals.
A report that estimates the budgetary impact of the 1988 amendments to diversity-of-citizenship jurisdiction and the potential impact as of 1988, of other proposals. The report presents a method for estimating the impact of changes in federal jurisdiction.
A paper that explores the special problems of repetitive litigation by the United States, including the institutional role of the Of-ce of the Solicitor General.