PrefaceCapsule SummaryPerspecticePART 1. FEDERAL COURTS AND THE POLITICAL BRANCHES OF THE FEDERAL COVERNMENT1. Problems of Judicial Review2. Congressional Power to Regulate Federal Jurisdiction3. Legislative CourtsPART 2. THE STRUCTURE OF FEDERAL JURISDICTION4. Federal-QuestionJurisdiction5. Diviersity and Alienage Jurisdiction6. Supplemental Jurisdiction7. Removal8. Supreme Court JurisdictionPART 3. FEDERAL COURS, FEDERALISM, AND THE STATES9. State Courts and Federal Powre10. State Sovereign Immunity and the Eleventh Amendment11. The Anti-Injunction Act12. Abstention13. Actions to Vindicate Federal Civil14. Habeas Corpus15. Federal Common Law16. Claim and Issue Preclusion in the Federal SystemAppendices