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Federal Courts: Context, Cases, and Problems, Fourth Edition

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Authors
  • Michael Finch
  • Caprice L. Roberts
  • Michael P. Allen
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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992 pages
Publication Date
2024-09-15
Edition
Fourth Edition
Teaching Materials
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Table of contents
Preface

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The Finch & Roberts Federal Courts casebook, now in its fourth edition, showcases thoughtfully curated cases that keep exactly what you need for appreciating core concepts and court reasoning. The text introducing and connecting cases provides clear, insightful points to guide the reader. Charts, bulleted lists, and graphs also illuminate key doctrines and shifts. The casebook brings the complex material to life for students by introducing chapters with a Reference Problem highlighting essential issues of the chapter. For students that crave more application, the chapters provide numerous additional problems based on recent vexing cases and thought-provoking hypothetical fact patterns. This casebook sets the stage for dynamic, exciting treatment of seminal federal courts cases, doctrinal intricacies, practical litigation strategies, and lively classroom discussion. Students will enhance their knowledge of federal court power and gain insights for more effectively applying and comparing federal jurisdiction doctrines and principles. Finally, the casebook and teacher’s manual provide opportunities to empower students to synthesize across the material, question judicial reasoning, and contemplate ideal reforms.

New to the 4th Edition:

● Updates each chapter with key cases, case excerpts, text additions, and doctrinal developments, e.g., TransUnion, Allen v. Cooper, Texas v. PennEast Pipeline Co., and Brown v. Davenport.
● Reorganizes and streamlines justiciability coverage for clarity and flow.
● Maintains all seminal cases but incorporates thoughtful revisions to aid comprehension and eliminate unnecessary explorations based on adopter feedback.
● Updates charts, graphs, and problems based on new data, statistics, and cases such as pipeline litigation and related jurisdiction-stripping statutes.
● Sharpens case excerpts to enhance reading assignments and deepen discussions.

Professors and students will benefit from:

● Application opportunities with Reference Problems, Questions, and additional problems.
● Clarity of textual material that includes doctrinal highlights, decision trees, diagrams, charts, and other dynamic visual aids.
● Crisp, insightful case excerpts with helpful connecting explanatory text.

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Summary of Contents

Contents
Preface 
Acknowledgments  

CHAPTER 1
The Federal Court System: Structure and Themes 

CHAPTER 2
Justiciability and the Judicial Function 

CHAPTER 3
Congressional Control of Federal Jurisdiction and Decision making 

CHAPTER 4
Allocation of Jurisdiction to Non- Article III Tribunals 

CHAPTER 5
Arising Under Jurisdiction

CHAPTER 6
Augmenting Federal Courts’ Power Through the Exercise of
Supplemental and Removal Jurisdiction 

CHAPTER 7
The Eleventh Amendment and State Sovereign Immunity 

CHAPTER 8
The Special Case of Section 1983 

CHAPTER 9
Protecting State Courts from Interference by Federal Courts

CHAPTER 10
Federal Courts’ Power to Make Federal Law 

CHAPTER 11
The Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and Appellate
Jurisdiction in the Federal Courts 

CHAPTER 12
Habeas Corpus

Appendix A: Transcript of Articles of Confederation
Appendix B: Constitution for the United States of America
Appendix C: Selected Statutes 
Table of Cases 
Index
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About the authors
Michael Finch
Professor Emeritus
Stetson Law

Professor Finch joined the law faculty in 1982, after practicing law in New England. In 1990, he received a Doctor of Juridical Law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School, the school’s most advanced law degree. His dissertation was based on an empirical study of the effects of collective bargaining and dispute resolution in public education. While attending Harvard Law school, he served as a research assistant to Professor Allen Dershowitz. Professor Finch is co-author with colleague Jason Bent, and Judge Michael Allen (U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims) of An Illustrated Guide to Civil Procedure (Aspen 4th ed. 2019). He is also co-author with Caprice Roberts and Judge Allen of Federal Courts: Context, Cases, and Problems, (Aspen 3d ed. 2020). Professor Finch has published extensively, including articles in the Minnesota Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, and the Business Lawyer. His work has been cited by numerous federal and state courts, including the United States Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court. Between 1998 and 2015, Professor Finch engaged in trial support and civil appellate practice and handled several appeals involving multi-million-dollar verdicts. Professor Finch is a member of the Florida, Connecticut, Montana, and Vermont (inactive) bars.

Caprice Roberts
Associate Dean
LSU

Caprice L. Roberts is a Associate Dean of Faculty Development & Research at LSU. Professor Roberts regularly teaches Federal Courts, Remedies, and Contracts. Her scholarship focuses on judicial power and restraint. Her op-ed on Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing appeared in the Washington Post. Her works have appeared in prominent journals such as: Florida, Cincinnati, Maryland, Washington & Lee, Villanova, Tennessee, Rutgers, Marquette, Lewis & Clark, Louisville, and Seattle. The United States Supreme Court cited Professor Roberts for accurately predicting novel application of unjust enrichment principles to contract law. Throughout her academic career, Professor Roberts has devoted scholarly and teaching attention to proper judicial role and the advancement of the law of remedies. She recently completed the new edition of the seminal treatise Dobbs & Roberts’s Law of Remedies and has published the 9th edition of a leading Remedies casebook with Doug Rendleman, as well as a coauthored casebook in Federal Courts with Michael Allen and Michael Finch. She has won several awards for her teaching and publications. Professor Roberts is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served on the Consultative Group for the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment. She is the Chair of the AALS Remedies Section and the Deputy Executive Director and Vice-Chair of Programming for the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. She is a Remedies Section Editor for JOTWELL and periodic guest blogger at PrawfsBlawg. She started her academic career at West Virginia University College of Law where she served as Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development. She also has taught at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law, Florida State University College of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, Savannah Law School, and Catholic University Columbus School of Law. Prior to the academy, Professor Roberts clerked for Chief Judge Julia Smith Gibbons of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and Judge Ronald Lee Gilman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She also practiced complex civil and criminal litigation with Skadden Arps for several years. She received her JD magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University, where she was lead articles editor and named to the Order of the Coif. She obtained her BA in political theory from Rhodes College.

Michael P. Allen

Judge Michael Allen was nominated by the President of the United States in June 2017. He was confirmed by the United States Senate, and appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in August 2017. United States District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich of the Middle District of Florida administered the judicial oath to Judge Allen on August 11, 2017.

For 16 years before his judicial appointment, Judge Allen was a tenured full professor of law at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida. He was also the director of Stetson’s Veterans Law Institute, and he spent 4 years as the College of Law’s associate dean. Judge Allen also served as a visiting professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Before entering teaching, Judge Allen practiced law for 9 years in the litigation department of the Boston-based international law firm Ropes & Gray.

Judge Allen graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rochester earning bachelor’s degrees in American history and political science. He received his juris doctor from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar during his final 2 years.

As a professor, Judge Allen taught courses in constitutional law, civil procedure, federal courts, remedies, and veterans benefits law. He has been a prolific author, cowriting 2 books and more than 25 articles and essays. Judge Allen also received numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching including the Stetson University Award for Excellence in Scholarship, the Brown-Dickerson Award for Excellence in Scholarship, the Stetson University Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Stetson University Award for Excellence in Professionalism and Career Development. He also received the Stetson’s Golden Apple Award for teaching and was twice named the best all-around professor.

Judge Allen was also a frequent speaker at community and professional groups while in legal education Among his speaking engagements were featured roles at the judicial conferences of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition, Judge Allen testified before the Veterans’ Affairs Committees of both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Before taking the bench, Judge Allen was active in professional associations. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools and was the Chair of the American Association of Law Schools’ sections on Remedies and New Law Teachers.
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Edition
Fourth Edition
Publication date
2024-09-15
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
992
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9798889062721
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9798889062745
Subject
Federal Courts and Federal Jurisdiction
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