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Title 28
Title 28
DISTRICT COURTS; JURISDICTION
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Actions against foreign states
Federal question
Diversity of citizenship; amount in controversy; costs
Admiralty, maritime and prize cases
Bankruptcy cases and proceedings
Interpleader
Surface Transportation Board’s orders
Commerce and antitrust regulations; amount in controversy, costs
Patents, plant variety protection, copyrights, mask works, designs, trademarks, and unfair competition
Postal matters
Internal revenue; customs duties
Taxes by States
Rate orders of State agencies
Civil rights and elective franchise
Election disputes
United States as plaintiff
United States as defendant
Partition action where United States is joint tenant
Banking association as party
Corporation organized under federal law as party
Alien’s action for tort
Consuls, vice consuls, and members of a diplomatic mission as defendant
Bonds executed under federal law
Indian allotments
Land grants from different states
Fine, penalty or forfeiture
Seizures not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
Injuries under Federal laws
Eminent domain
Parties collusively joined or made
State civil jurisdiction in actions to which Indians are parties
Action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty
Indian tribes
Jurors’ employment rights
Direct actions against insurers of members of diplomatic missions and their families
Senate actions
Construction of references to laws of the United States or Acts of Congress
Supplemental jurisdiction
Counterclaims in unfair practices in international trade.
Multiparty, multiforum jurisdiction