Jurisdiction of Federal Courts Concerning Diversity of CitizenshipU.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - 57 halaman Committee Serial No. 5. Considers legislation to provide that district courts shall have jurisdiction of civil actions only if the amount in controversy exceeds $10,000 and that their jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship shall not extend to actions in which corporations are parties; and legislation to provide that district courts shall have jurisdiction of civil actions where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000 and is between citizens of different states. |
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... litigation of a trifling or less substantial nature and to confer jurisdiction in such cases upon the State courts where it belongs . Under the Constitution of the United States the Congress has the power within certain limi- tations to ...
... litigation of a trifling or less substantial nature and to confer jurisdiction in such cases upon the State courts where it belongs . Under the Constitution of the United States the Congress has the power within certain limi- tations to ...
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... litigation has considerably multiplied , particularly in the field of damage suits . Few such suits are now brought for as small an amount as $ 3,000 . Moreover , a greedy and Gargantuan Central Government in the last few years has ...
... litigation has considerably multiplied , particularly in the field of damage suits . Few such suits are now brought for as small an amount as $ 3,000 . Moreover , a greedy and Gargantuan Central Government in the last few years has ...
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... litigation . These matters of dispute can be settled more expeditiously and with a closer approach to public justice in the localities where the cause of action has arisen . Our State judges as a whole are learned and able men . They ...
... litigation . These matters of dispute can be settled more expeditiously and with a closer approach to public justice in the localities where the cause of action has arisen . Our State judges as a whole are learned and able men . They ...
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... litigation involving them that some of them from time to time may suffer some hardship or inconvenience if this bill should be enacted into law . But I think on the whole it would be of great benefit to the citizens and to the ...
... litigation involving them that some of them from time to time may suffer some hardship or inconvenience if this bill should be enacted into law . But I think on the whole it would be of great benefit to the citizens and to the ...
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... litigation into Federal courts because it has obtained a charter from another State , and may proceed on a legal fiction that a diversity of citizenship exists . This evil can be corrected by the proposal contained in my bill . It ...
... litigation into Federal courts because it has obtained a charter from another State , and may proceed on a legal fiction that a diversity of citizenship exists . This evil can be corrected by the proposal contained in my bill . It ...
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86 districts Administrative Office amend section 1332 amount in controversy amount in Federal automobile accident based upon diversity caseload Chairman circuit judge citizenship jurisdiction civil cases filed Committee on Jurisdiction Cong CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS OF CONGRESS CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Constitution deemed a citizen diction district courts diversity jurisdiction diversity of citizenship eliminate EMANUEL CELLER exclusive of interest Federal courts Federal jurisdiction Federal question Federal question jurisdiction figures fiscal Governor Tuck House of Representatives incorporated involving Jones Act Judicial Conference jurisdic Jurisdiction and Venue jury trial legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS litigation March MARIS motor vehicle nonresident Parker percent personal injury place of business plaintiff principal place proposed question and diversity Raise jurisdictional amount raising the jurisdictional recommendation reduced Revised Judicial Code Stat suits tion title 28 tort total civil United States Code United States Courts United States district venue and jurisdiction Virginia WILLIS
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Halaman 17 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Halaman 23 - To amend chapter 213 of title 18 of the United States Code. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That...
Halaman 48 - ... Federal courts is evident from the fact that in the fiscal year 1954 more than 500 automobile accident cases were commenced in the United States district courts in Louisiana as compared with 157 in Mississippi with a population almost as great as that of Louisiana and 245 in Texas, with more than three times the population of Louisiana, both States adjacent to Louisiana. A few figures developed by the Division of Procedural Studies and Statistics of the Administrative Office will demonstrate...
Halaman 11 - The material question is not so much whether the justice administered is actually impartial and fair, as it is whether it is thought to be so by those who are considering the wisdom of investing their capital in states where that capital is needed for the promotion of enterprises and industrial and commercial progress. No single element — and I want to emphasize this because I don't think it is always thought of — no single element in our governmental system has done so much to secure capital...
Halaman 16 - States to be filed by the defendant "at the time of entering his appearance in such state court." 1 Stat. 79. The recent acts of congress have tended more and more to contract the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, which had been enlarged by intermediate acts, and to restrict it more nearly within the limits of the earliest statute.