By enforcing contract rights not within the jurisdictional grant conferred by Congress, as much as by improperly "inferring" a right of action, "a court of limited jurisdiction necessarily extends its authority to embrace a dispute Congress has not assigned it to resolve...
By an act of the legislature of the territory approved May 22, 1857, (Laws 1857, Extra Sess. 20,) a portion of such grant was conferred upon the Minneapolis & Cedar Valley Railroad Company.
But the rights thus granted and conferred were accompanied by the proviso that the company should complete its railway to a point on the Rio Grande as far south as Santa Fe, within five years after the passage of the act; and complete each year thereafter fifty miles additional south of that point.
In addition, the association conferred its Grant for Young Artists, some $42,000, on the Residence du Festival, a program of the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfoundation to help aspiring filmmakers.
And those terms, the court concluded, limit the grant of federal jurisdiction conferred by § 1343 even if § 1983 creates a remedy for a broader category of statutory claims.
In addition, 24 incoming students devoted to public service will be designated Omidyar scholars, and the college will confer grants to students, staff members or professors with ideas for community service projects.
This ability to give grit, guts and an up-to-the-minute topicality to the Shavian debate play has understandably endeared Ms. Corthron to not-for-profit theaters and the powers that confer grants.
"Freedom is conferred, democracy is conferred," the caption said, a reference to a remark reportedly made by Deputy Prime Minister Wan Li to the effect that civil rights can only be granted, from top down.
That provision, as we have previously said, does not withdraw or expressly limit the grant of power to tax conferred upon Congress by the Constitution.
The dissent concluded that no jurisdiction to grant any other remedy was conferred by Congress and that the District Court, therefore, was without jurisdiction to enjoin the proceedings before the Renegotiation Board.
