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In this dispute concerning radioactive waste pollution in the Irish Sea produced by an English nuclear fuel reprocessing facility, Ireland argues that certain UNCLOS provisions allow Convention tribunals to enforce not only UNCLOS directives, but other rules of international law not incompatible with this Convention as well.3 As a result, Ireland's claim draws not only from UNCLOS, but also from more than twenty additional international agreements and instruments to which the United Kingdom may be bound.
Jurisdiction, R.C. 3929.06, supplemental action
Civil Procedure Supplemental jurisdiction
The year 2005 witnessed two watershed developments in federal jurisdiction: the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc. and the enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA). Allapattah and CAFA raise the same fundamental question: how should courts interpret a statute whose text would expand federal jurisdiction far beyond what Congress apparently intended? In Allapattah, the Court confronted this question in resolving an aspect of the supplemental jurisdiction statute that had deeply divided both the judiciary and academia. CAFA's expansion of federal jurisdiction over class actions will require courts to struggle with this question once again. It is argued that CAFA - like its older cousin the supplemental jurisdiction statute - contains a ...
...S. C. §1332(a) diversity jurisdiction. After the dealers won a jury verdict, the court c... it had properly exercised §1367 supplemental jurisdiction over the claims of class members who ...
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