Disputes litigated in federal court frequently must be decided at least in part according to
state law. But the precise content of the state law at issue is not always clear. Sometimes …

A federal court is frequently called upon to determine matters of state law. In such situations,
the federal court must divine how the state's high court would decide the state law question …

One of the more important aspects of federalism lies in the relationship which has been
established between state and federal courts. The interworkings of the judicial process …

State courts live by simple rules. One rule holds that state courts may adjudicate federal
questions-or most of them, at least. 1 Another rule permits state courts to play a pivotal role …

There are certain important areas of the law that are only occasionally involved in actions
before that august court. On the rare occasions when-these areas do appear there, the …

Respect for judicial federalism requires the Supreme Court to avoid deciding questions of
state law when reviewing state court decisions. 1 The Supreme Court's power lies only in …

A number of half-truths are becoming associated with the New Judicial Federalism, which
may be defined as the trend among state courts to rely upon state law, especially state …

T HE law of judicial federalism'-an important subset of the standard federal courts curriculum-
is wracked by internal contradictions. The problem is not simply the incompatibility of results …

There are two basic aspects of our constitutional system of federalism. The first is that the
States derive their powers from their own constitutions, and not from the national …

Problems in the allocation of lawmaking power between the federal government and the
states do not-and I am inclined to think that they should not-loom large in the traditional …