Supreme Court Workload: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1968 ... April 27, May 18, September 22, and November 10, 1983 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administration amended American Bar Association antitrust appellate capacity appellate court Appellate System appointed argument banc bill burden Burger caseload certiorari petitions Chairman Chief Judge Chief Justice circuit courts circuit judges civil Cong Congress constitutional Court of Ap Court of Appeals create creation decide decision discretionary discretionary jurisdiction dissenting district courts diversity jurisdiction docket enacted federal courts federal judicial system federal judiciary federal law filed hear Hruska Commission important increase intercircuit conflicts Intercircuit Tribunal issues judgment Judicial Conference judicial restraint Justice Stevens Justice White KASTENMEIER lawyers legislation litigation lower courts mandatory jurisdiction merits National Court opinions panel patent percent petitions for certiorari preme Court present problem procedure proposal question referred Report resolve Roman Hruska Rule of Four Senate sitting stare decisis statute statutory subcommittee substantial suggested supra note Supreme Court temporary term tion United States Court Warren E Wilfred Feinberg
Popular passages
Page 736 - A review on writ of certiorari is not a matter of right, but of sound judicial discretion, and will be granted only where there are special and important reasons therefor. The following, while neither controlling nor fully measuring the court's discretion...
Page 774 - American Law Institute. Study of the Division of Jurisdiction between State and Federal Courts 320 (Off.
Page 537 - ... 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...
Page 726 - Except as otherwise provided by law, any party may appeal to the Supreme Court from an order granting or denying, after notice and hearing, an interlocutory or permanent injunction in any civil action, suit or proceeding required by any Act of Congress to be heard and determined by a district court of three judges.
Page 721 - If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being coextensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number. The mere necessity of uniformity in the interpretation of the national laws, decides the question. Thirteen independent courts of final jurisdiction over the same causes, arising upon the same laws, is a hydra in government, from which nothing but contradiction and confusion can proceed.
Page 736 - ... or has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or so far sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, as to call for an exercise of this court's power of supervision.
Page 729 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Page 726 - States upon application therefor or notice thereof within thirty days after the entry of the order, decree, or judgment granting or denying, after notice and hearing, an interlocutory or permanent injunction in such case.
Page 421 - Court, the United States Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court, including oral arguments on assignment by the Solicitor General, as well as cases in the State courts.
Page 2 - (a) Final judgments or decrees rendered by the highest court of a State...