T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶81

As creatures of statute, inferior federal courts “possess no jurisdiction but what is given them by the power that creates them.” Ibid. They have “none” beyond what Congress “authorize[s].” Ibid. Whether inferior federal courts have revising power thus depends on whether a statute says that they do. C. Williams, Jurisdiction and Practice of Federal Courts 433 (1917) (Williams). Today, statutes say that courts of appeals have revising power over district-court judgments, 28 U. S. C. §1291, and that district courts have revising power over bankruptcy-court judgments, §158(a)(1).

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