Court Reform and Access to Justice Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First and Second Sessions on H.R. 3152 ... September 23, October 14, 1987, and February 24, 1988, Volume 4, Part 2 |
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Administration of Justice Administrative Office Amendments to 28 apply attorneys authority bankruptcy Bar Association bill Board Chairman Kastenmeier Chairman Rodino chapter 84 Chapter President Chief Justice choice of law circuit citizen citizenship jurisdiction claims Commission Cong Congress consolidation corporations Counsel Court of Appeals court system Court-Annexed Arbitration date of enactment defendants Director district court executive diversity jurisdiction diversity of citizenship Effective Date eliminate federal courts federal forum federal judges Federal Judicial Center federal jurisdiction Federal Rules filed gifts Hearings Honorable Robert House of Representatives interpleader issues judicial branch Judicial Conference jury lawyers legislation Letter limited litigation multiforum jurisdiction out-of-state parties Peter Rodino plaintiffs problems procedure proceedings proposed provides repealed Robert W Rules Enabling Act Senate Sess statute Subcommittee on Courts subsection substantial supersession clause supra note Supreme Court take effect tion title 28 trial trial de novo United States Code United States Courts Washington
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Page 1242 - All laws in conflict with such rules shall be of no further force or effect after such rules have taken effect.
Page 862 - States and the decision is against its validity. (2) By appeal, where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of any state on the ground of its being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of its validity.
Page 1470 - States, or where any title, right, privilege or immunity is specially set up or claimed under the Constitution, treaties or statutes of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States.
Page 1241 - States shall have the power to prescribe, by general rules, for the district courts of the United States and for the courts of the District of Columbia, the forms of process, writs, pleadings, and motions, and the practice and procedure in civil actions at law.
Page 862 - That in any direct action against the insurer of a policy or contract of liability insurance, whether incorporated or unincorporated, to which action the insured is not joined as a party-defendant, such insurer shall be deemed a citizen of the State of which the insured is a citizen, as well as of any State by which the insurer has been incorporated and of the State where it has its principal place of business.
Page 1267 - If Congress shall lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body authorized to fix such rates is directed to conform, such legislative action is not a forbidden delegation of legislative power.
Page 1342 - Islands, or of the judges thereof, granting, continuing, modifying, refusing or dissolving injunctions, or refusing to dissolve or modify injunctions, except where a direct review may be had in the Supreme Court.
Page 1306 - The proceedings of the Board and its divisions shall be conducted in accordance with such rules of practice, and procedure (other than rules of evidence) as the Board may prescribe and in accordance with the rules of evidence applicable in courts of equity of the District of Columbia.
Page 911 - ... (c) he knows that he individually or as a fiduciary, or his spouse or minor child residing in his household, has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding...
Page 1470 - ... the highest court of a State in which a decision could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of the United States ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of any State, on the ground of its being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties...