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Supreme Court Review Of State-Court Determinations Of State Law In Constitutional Cases, Henry Paul Monaghan
Supreme Court Review Of State-Court Determinations Of State Law In Constitutional Cases, Henry Paul Monaghan
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The decision in Bush v. Gore and particularly Chief Justice Rehnquist's concurring opinion were widely criticized for their unwarranted intrusion upon the "authoritative" status of the Florida Supreme Court in determining the meaning of Florida election law. This Article rejects the merits of that criticism. It proposes the thesis that the Supreme Court has ancillary jurisdiction to review state-court determinations of state law in cases where the Constitution or ftderal law imposes a duty of fidelity to prior state law (t1) and the claim is that the state court materially and impermissibly departed from that law at a …