Talk:Federal jurisdiction
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Maybe this page should be Federal jurisdiction (United States). A more general page about court structure in a federal state needs to be fleshed out and this page also needs to be rewritten, it is very choppy. Alex756
- I added a short introduction.
- I don't really understand how this article is currently organized. It doesn't make sense to me to discuss state action, constitutional law, section 1983, etc., under this section. Federal jurisdiction, at least as a term of art, relates to the power of a federal court to hear a case. There are currently articles on subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, supplemental jurisdiction, etc., which are not linked from here. Some of this discussion does occur under jurisdiction, but it seems to me that discussion should be over here rather than in a general discussion of jurisdiction all over the world.
- In any case, I am quite familiar with federal jurisdiction, and am happy to help, but need some guidance on the overall reorganization here. It seems to me this article needs to be almost rewritten from scratch.Ajkessel | Talk 01:05, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- I don't know how it affects whether this page should be merged, but I noticed that a discussion of legislative jurisdiction was missing (e.g. whether federal or state law or both applies to a particular piece of territory). I attempted to at least partially remedy the situation. PubliusFL 18:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
