1. The Nature of the Judicial Function

• A. The Principle of Judicial Review and Its Justification
• B. Judicial Review and the “Private Rights”–“Public Rights” Dichotomy
   

• A. Advisory Opinions
• B. Finality of Judicial Rulings
• C. Standing to Sue
• D. Mootness
• E. Ripeness
• F. The Political Question Doctrine

• A. “Jurisdiction Stripping”
• B. Congress’s Power to Vest Article III Business in Bodies Other than Article III Courts
• C. Congress’s Power to Vest Article III Courts with Other than Article III Business
• D. Congressional Control over State Court Jurisdiction

• A. State Law in the Federal Courts
• B. Federal Common Law
• C. Rights of Action

• A. Federal Question Jurisdiction
• B. Diversity Jurisdiction
• C. Supplemental Jurisdiction
• D. Removal Jurisdiction

PART II. LAWSUITS AGAINST GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR OFFICIALS

6. Federal Sovereign Immunity

• A. The Rule of Immunity
• B. Methods of Avoiding Federal Sovereign Immunity

• A. The Provocation
• B. The Response
• C. The Great Debate
• D. Methods of Avoiding State Sovereign Immunity
• E. A Few More Details
• F. Congressional Abrogation of State Sovereign Immunity
• G. Suits Against States in State Courts

8. Official Suits and Official Immunity

• A. Causes of Action
• B. Official Immunities

PART III. INTERSYSTEM RELATIONSHIPS

9. Abstention Doctrines and Related Restrictions on Federal Jurisdiction

• A. The Anti-Injunction Act
• B. Pullman Abstention
• C. Specialized Abstention Doctrines
• D. Younger Abstention

10. Supreme Court Review — Especially of Cases Decided by State Courts

• A. How Cases Reach the Supreme Court
• B. The Supreme Court’s Power to Review Cases Decided by State Courts
• C. The Scope of Supreme Court Review of Cases Decided by State Courts
• D.  Review of State Court Decision by Inferior Federal Courts — The “Rooker-Feldman” Doctrine

11. Habeas Corpus

• A. Habeas Corpus for Persons Held Without Criminal Charge
• B. Habeas Corpus for Persons Held Pursuant to a Criminal Conviction