Raising the diversity jurisdictional threshold caused a measurable drop in federal filings.

Evidence

Federal legislation affects the types of private case commenced in federal district courts. A good example is diversity of citizenship cases, which involve suits between citizens of different states. In 1989, Congress raised the amount that must be at stake for diversity cases to be tried in federal court from 10,000 to 50,000, and in 1 year diversity cases dropped 15 percent. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2257

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates how Congress controls the boundaries of federal court jurisdiction, central to debates over caseload control and state-federal court allocation. — connects to: Lobbying over forum quality blocks abolition of federal diversity jurisdiction.

Broader Connections

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