Federal Courts Stories

by Jackson, Vicki C.; Resnik, Judith

• ISBN13: 9781599413839
• ISBN10: 1599413833
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781628102987
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-05
• Publisher: Foundation Press
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Summary

Touching on history, economics, politics, and law, these stories steal behind the texts of the legal opinions into the larger-than-life personalities and struggles of their antagonists and protagonists. This title is an invaluable supplement to any federal courts casebook.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Idea of a Jurisprudence, a Course, and a Canon: Introducing Federal Courts Stories	p. 1
The Courts, the Congress, and the Executive
The Story of Marbury V. Madison: Judicial Authority and Political Struggle	p. 29
The Story of Ex parte McCardle: The Power of Congress to Limit the Supreme Court's Appellate Jurisdiction	p. 57
The Story of Klein: The Scope of Congress's Authority to Shape the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts	p. 87
Federal and State Courts: Exclusivity, Concurrency, Reciprocity
The Story of Michigan V. Long: Supreme Court Review and the Workings of American Federalism	p. 115
The Story of Tarble's Case: State Habeas and Federal Detention	p. 141
Riding the Color Line: The Story of Railroad Commission of Texas V. Pullman Co	p. 163
Courts, Liberty, and Habeas Corpus: Sequential Decisionmaking Reviewing State Court Convictions
The Story of Fay V. Noia: Another Case About Another Federalism	p. 191
Challenging Executive Authority
"Not a Happy Precedent": The Story of Ex parte Quirin	p. 219
Government Accountability
The Story of Ex parte Young: Once Controversial, Now Canon	p. 247
The Story of Bivens V. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics	p. 275
The Story of Santa Clara Pueblo V. Martinez: Tribal Sovereignty, Sex Equality, and the Federal Courts	p. 301
Sovereignties-Federal, State and Tribal: The Story of Seminole Tribe of Florida V. Florida	p. 329
Federal Common Law, the Administrative State, and the International Community
The Story of Crowell: Grounding the Administrative State	p. 359
The Story of Lincoln Mills: Jurisdiction and the Source of Law	p. 389
The Story of Banco Nacional de Cuba V. Sabbatino: Federal Judicial Power in Foreign Relations Cases	p. 415
Biographies of Contributors	p. 445
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