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  • Outline of Subject Matter Jursidiction

    Outline of Subject Matter Jursidiction What is Subject Matter Jursidiction? · State courts are courts of general jurisdiction, empowered to hear just about every type of civil case. That is significantly different from federal courts, which are courts of limited Subject Matter Jurisdiction (result of the Madisonian Compromise). · Very little of the business of…

  • Citation of legal blogs in law reviews

    The importance (and credibility) of law blogs was confirmed when the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States cited its first blog in January, 2005. See United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738, 775 n.4 (2005). An article in Slaw (“citing blogs in Law Journals ) points the idea that the “question still arises…