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The Demise Of Hypothetical Jurisdiction In The Federal Courts, Scott C. Idleman
The Demise Of Hypothetical Jurisdiction In The Federal Courts, Scott C. Idleman
Vanderbilt Law Review
Recent years have witnessed a modest but expanding Supreme Court effort to return the national government to its structural first principles.' Foremost among these is that federal power, although vast, is neither inherent nor unbounded, but consists only of that granted by the Constitution. In 1998, the Court remained steadfast to this precept, thwarting yet another attempt by a federal branch to exceed its limited and enumerated constitutional powers. This time, however, the perpetrator was none other than the Article IH judiciary itself. In Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment, the Court formally denounced the federal court practice …
Beyond "Marbury": Jurisdictional Self-Dealing In "Seminole Tribe", Laura S. Fitzgerald
Beyond "Marbury": Jurisdictional Self-Dealing In "Seminole Tribe", Laura S. Fitzgerald
Vanderbilt Law Review
In Seminole Tribe v. Florida, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution's Article III embodies a principle of state sovereign immunity which so constrains the federal judicial power that it prohibits Congress from granting federal courts subject matter jurisdiction over private lawsuits to enforce Article I legislation against states. At the same time, however, and again in Idaho v. Coeur d'Alene Tribe, the Court reaffirmed its own Ex parte Young doctrine, under which the Court itself unilaterally granted federal courts subject matter jurisdiction over private lawsuits to coerce states to comply with federal law despite state sovereign immunity. Neither in …