T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶82
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. Hudson, 7 Cranch 32, 33 (1812).Read in context ›
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