I want to thank everyone for coming to yesterday’s review session. Five hours. Wow. The videos are now all online and publicly available. There are eight (8) videos. Seven of them are from yesterday’s review session and the eighth is a short addendum I did this morning on supplemental jurisdiction. The reason I created the […]
As the not-so-lazy days of summer fast approach, a number of important announcements as our semester winds down: Remaining assignments. Tentative assignments for the remainder of the year are now online so that you may start planning your study and review schedule. Problem sets and study materials. I have posted a large number of additional study […]
As my Civ Pro students know, I like to analogize supplemental jurisdiction to an ice cream cone: The cone is the federal district court. The ice cream is original jurisdiction. Examples include sections 1331, 1332, 1335, 1338, etc. The sprinkles are supplemental jurisdiction. Can you have an ice cream cone without ice cream? No, that’d […]
St. Thomas Law‘s own Professor Patricia Hatamyar Moore testified today before the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives regarding class actions. The hearing addressed “The State of Class Action Ten Years After the Enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act.” Professor Moore was the only professor to address the committee and did a fantastic job, doing […]
