Strategy for studying federal courts and jurisdiction -- Federal question jurisdiction in lower federal courts -- Diversity of citizenship jurisdiction in lower federal courts -- Supplemental jurisdiction in lower federal courts -- Justiciability doctrines -- Congressional control over jurisdiction -- The anti-injunction act -- Abstention doctrines -- State court authority to enforce federal law -- State court responsibility to enforce federal law -- Role of the United States Supreme Court -- Role of lower federal courts -- Eleventh Amendment restrictions -- Section 1983 -- The Erie mandate -- Federal common law