Add to ORKGAs a Yale Law professor, I have been teaching introductory civil procedure for over 30 years. Diversity jurisdiction as interpreted by the US Supreme Court never made sense; even first-year law students could see that. The only plausible purpose for diversity jurisdiction in the federal courts is to avoid the possibility of a “home court advantage” for in-state litigants. But how can the default rule requiring complete diversity ever achieve that result? The prevailing rule mandating complete diversity requires that no plaintiff and no defendant are from the same state in order to get into federal court, whereas “minimal diversity” would provide that it is enough for federal jurisdiction if any parties on opposite sides of the “v.” are from...
This Note examines the language and legislative history of section 1367(b) and proposes a uniform te...
The rules that make the federal courts available for the resolution of controversies between citizen...
Plaintiff, a citizen of New York, instituted a stockholder\u27s suit on behalf of a New York corpora...
After years of pretrial and trial activities, a large corporate defendant discovers that it is a c...
An important group of cases over which the inferior federal courts in the United States have jurisdi...
Is federal diversity jurisdiction case specific or claim specific? The complete-diversity rule makes...
In an effort to eliminate duplicative and wasteful litigation in both federal and state courts, rece...
After years of pretrial and trial activities, a large corporate defendant discovers that it is a c...
Article III’s diversity jurisdiction provisions extend the federal judicial power to state law contr...
In an effort to eliminate duplicative and wasteful litigation in both federal and state courts, rece...
Must a federal court have obtained the power to bind a party before her citizenship becomes relevant...
This comment examines the application of section 1359 to assignments and transfers which affect fede...
The long-running debate over the propriety and proper scope of diversity jurisdiction has always cen...
The complete diversity rule is broken. Although easily applied in theory (federal courts can exercis...
The long-running debate over the propriety and proper scope of diversity jurisdiction as always cent...
This Note examines the language and legislative history of section 1367(b) and proposes a uniform te...
The rules that make the federal courts available for the resolution of controversies between citizen...
Plaintiff, a citizen of New York, instituted a stockholder\u27s suit on behalf of a New York corpora...
After years of pretrial and trial activities, a large corporate defendant discovers that it is a c...
An important group of cases over which the inferior federal courts in the United States have jurisdi...
Is federal diversity jurisdiction case specific or claim specific? The complete-diversity rule makes...
In an effort to eliminate duplicative and wasteful litigation in both federal and state courts, rece...
After years of pretrial and trial activities, a large corporate defendant discovers that it is a c...
Article III’s diversity jurisdiction provisions extend the federal judicial power to state law contr...
In an effort to eliminate duplicative and wasteful litigation in both federal and state courts, rece...
Must a federal court have obtained the power to bind a party before her citizenship becomes relevant...
This comment examines the application of section 1359 to assignments and transfers which affect fede...
The long-running debate over the propriety and proper scope of diversity jurisdiction has always cen...
The complete diversity rule is broken. Although easily applied in theory (federal courts can exercis...
The long-running debate over the propriety and proper scope of diversity jurisdiction as always cent...
This Note examines the language and legislative history of section 1367(b) and proposes a uniform te...
The rules that make the federal courts available for the resolution of controversies between citizen...
Plaintiff, a citizen of New York, instituted a stockholder\u27s suit on behalf of a New York corpora...