T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶80

The Constitution defines the limits of this Court’s jurisdiction. Its “original Jurisdiction” is limited to “Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party.” Art. III, §2, cl. 2. In “all” other cases, “in Law and Equity,” this Court “shall have appellate Jurisdiction,” subject to any “Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.” §2, cls. 1–2. Only this Court “possesses jurisdiction derived immediately from the constitution.” United States v. Hud son, 7 Cranch 32, 33 (1812).

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