As my Civ Pro students know, I like to analogize supplemental jurisdiction to an ice cream cone: The cone is the federal district court. The ice cream is original jurisdiction. Examples include sections 1331, 1332, 1335, 1338, etc. The sprinkles are supplemental jurisdiction. Can you have an ice cream cone without ice cream? No, that’d […]
St. Thomas Law‘s own Professor Patricia Hatamyar Moore testified today before the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives regarding class actions. The hearing addressed “The State of Class Action Ten Years After the Enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act.” Professor Moore was the only professor to address the committee and did a fantastic job, doing […]
Generally speaking, works published in the United States prior to 1923 are now in the public domain. This is because in 1998 (the year of the Sonny Bono Act/CTEA), works published before 1923 were already in the public domain before subsisting copyrights got a 20-year extension (extending existing copyrights from 75 to 95 years). See the math: 1998 (Year of Sonny Bono Act) […]
