LAW 607 Lecture Notes - Lecture 68: Subject-Matter Jurisdiction, Supplemental Jurisdiction, Diversity Jurisdiction

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Law
• Course: LAW 607
• Professor: V Winship

Document Summary

Personal jurisdiction: a court must have personal jurisdiction over every party to the action, except voluntary plaintiffs, intervenors under rule 24, and any other party who waives his right to contest jurisdiction. Thus, the court needs to be able to establish jurisdiction over all defendants and any other party joined to the action against his will (including involuntary plaintiffs under fed. Page 1 of 6 closely the same transaction or occurrence test used in certain joinder rules. Note: several recent decisions suggest the common nucleus test is actually broader than the same transaction test, which means supplemental jurisdiction may exist even for claims that do not derive from the same transaction or occurrence. These decisions do not affect the analysis below. Even under this view, as long as the same transaction test is satisfied, the claim will also satisfy 1367(a): b. Examples of such claims include: compulsory counterclaims under fed.