Federal jurisdiction is addressed

Article Abstract:

Three jurisdictional cases were decided in the 1991 term of the US Supreme Court. The first, Ankenbrandt v Richards, established the priority of the domestic relations exception over diversity jurisdiction in a child abuse suit. The second, American National Red Cross v S.G., involved federal jurisdiction based on the wording of federally chartered institutions. The last case, Willy v Coastal Corp, involved Rule 11 sanctions imposed for poor preparation by a federal court on a case mistakenly removed from state jurisdiction.

Surveys, Federal jurisdiction, Diversity jurisdiction

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Court preserves the privileges of the dead; in its procedural decisions, the court breaks no new ground and declines to create new doctrine

Article Abstract:

The Supreme Court issued various procedural rulings during the 1997-98 term, and the most highly publicized was Swidler & Berlin v. United States, which turned down special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's attempt to breach the attorney-client privilege between former White House Counsel Vincent Foster and an attorney which he consulted before his suicide. Other cases concerned whether one state was obliged to observe a nondisclosure injunction issued by another state and the manner of conducting multidistrict litigation.

Management, Personal jurisdiction, Multidistrict litigation, Civil procedure

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High court should review mass torts

Article Abstract:

The US Supreme Court has for more than 25 years let the mass tort suit burgeon in the federal courts and should grant review in Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor. For more than 25 years federal courts have tried to deal with mass tort class actions and the requirement for Supreme Court review of a disagreement between the federal circuits has been amply satisfied. Mass tort suits are a judicial problem which the courts should tackle.

Practice, Mass tort suits

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