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United States Supreme Court:
Original Jurisdiction Cases and Materials
Cases, Basic Documents, Analyses, Index with Cases Cited
 These three volumes contain the only collection of all substantive decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court under its original jurisdiction. This is a unique publication.
Under the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court considers certain cases directly without taking them as an appeal from lower courts. These cases involve the United States and individual states and state against state. Cases between states may not be considered in any other court; the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction is exclusive.
A former judge wrote of the original jurisdiction cases:
There is a special drama when a state sues another invoking the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States. In the international arena, similar disputes between sovereign states would be settled through diplomatic negotiations or armed conflict, and the stakes in the Supreme Court trial are often as high as in international disputes.
In these cases, the Supreme Court has ruled on the application and constitutionality of laws including the Reconstruction Acts, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Submerged Lands Act.
Two of the 27 Amendments to the Constitution came directly as a consequence of original jurisdiction cases.
For the first and only time ever, these cases have been assembled and indexed including all cases cited in the Court’s opinions.
Two scholars have provided thorough analyses of the cases. Prof. Richard E. Morgan, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Constitutional and International Law at Bowdoin College, has provided an historical context for the cases from 1793 until the present. Dr. Gordon L. Weil, a long-time legal publisher, has identified the key characteristics of original jurisdiction cases.
The collection also contains the only thorough law review study of the cases. The collection also includes the basic documents relating to original jurisdiction.
For students of the Supreme Court, for government practitioners who may become involved in such cases, for those interested in the unique application of international law principles by a court with binding authority and for students of federalism, these volumes are the essential reference.
Volume Contents
Volume I (xciii, 864 pages)
Reader’s Guide
Table of Contents (case list)
Basic Documents (constitutional and other)
Analysis (three articles)
Index including cases cited
Cases:
Ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls
Citizens of a state against another state
State against citizens of another state
United States and a state as parties (part)
Volume II (909 pages)
Cases:
United States and a state as parties (submerged lands)
Controversies between two or more states (part)
Volume III (928 pages)
Cases:
Controversies between two or more states (part)
ISBN (3 volumes) 978-1-935496-03-8
ISBN (Volume I) 978-1-935496-00-7
ISBN (Volume II) 978-1-935496-01-4
ISBN (Volume III) 978-1-935496-02-1
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© 2013 Arthur McAllister Publishers
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