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Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 14 And Ancillary Jurisdiction, Howard W. Brill
Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 14 And Ancillary Jurisdiction, Howard W. Brill
Howard W Brill
The federal courts have long struggled with the conflict be- tween the limits of their constitutional and statutory jurisdiction and their desire to provide complete relief to petitioning parties. Because of problems associated with this tension, the federal courts adopted the doctrine of ancillary jurisdiction. Ancillary jurisdiction enables a court adjudicating a matter properly before it to decide other related matters even though it would lack jurisdiction to decide the related matters if they were presented independently.
The doctrine was originally created to allow a federal court to adjudicate all claims affecting a controversy properly brought before it, but was …