Supplemental Jurisdiction and § 1367: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Rehnquist at the direction of Congress, the committee undertook a fifteen month study of the problems in the federal court system. 1 The final report was issued in 1990 and made a series of recommendations addressing a broad range of topics including tax jurisdiction, narcotics prosecutions, habeas cases, sentencing reform, disability adjudications, and diversity jurisdiction, which the committee recommended eliminating entirely. 2 With one noteworthy exception, all of the recommendations were intended to reduce the workload of the federal courts. 3That one exception concerned supplemental jurisdiction.The committee recommended that Congress should statutorily authorize supplemental jurisdiction. 4This recommendation came in response to the Supreme Court's decision in Finley v. United States, which held that pendent party