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MULTI-PARTY MULTI-STATE JURISDICTION-GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE MP1

handle is hein.ali/alidiv0032 and id is 1 raw text is: - OXMMENTS MULTI-PARTY MULTI -STATE JURISDICTION General Description and Purpose The complexity and rapid communication which have been often noted as characterizing our modern society result, in the context of litigation, in an increasing proportion of lawsuits involving more than two parties and events in more than one State. The effective resolution of such controversies poses special problems in a federal system such as ours, premised as it is upon the several States as the basic law-making and law-adjudicating units of government. For it remains true-that in great bulk these trans- actions continue to be governed by State law, properly adjudicated in State tribunals.* At the same time, efficient disposition of *Where a supervening federal law has displaced State law as the substantive governing law, different jurisdictional considerations of course come into play as well; cases arising under federal law are not within the scope of this proposal and will be treated separately later. lawsuits involving such complex transactions often calls for bringing in multiple parties, perhaps from several different places. The State courts are no longer as restricted as they once were in- securing the presence of such parties.. Earlier concepts of federal constitutional dueprocess, which began with.the notion that The foundation of jurisdiction is physical power, severely limited the

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