The Jurisdiction of Federal Courts in Labor Disputes

Medical malpractice panels and federal diversity jurisdiction: preserving access to federal courts by analyzing the nature of the panel.

Church Property Disputes in the Civil Courts

T HE EXTENT to which civil courts may assume jurisdiction of ecclesiastical matters in church property disputes1 was involved in the North Carolina case of Reid v. Johnston. 2 There, a Baptist church, organized in 1894, -received land on a conveyance which attached no doctrinal limitations to its use. In 1953, a new pastor, supported by a majority of the congregation, led a movement to withdraw...

Sealed Cases in Federal Courts

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Jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board

In the historic decisions in the Jones & Laughlin and companion cases sustaining the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act, the Supreme Court made no attempt to define or particularize the instances in which the invocation of the act by the Labor Board would constitute a valid exercise of the federal power. It contented itself with defining the limits of the Board's jurisdiction...

Piggyback Jurisdiction in the Proposed Federal Criminal Code

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