A bill to improve judicial machinery by revising the certiorari jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
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Repeals the provisions of law: (1) allowing a direct appeal to the Supreme Court from a Federal court decision holding an Act of Congress unconstitutional; (2) permitting appeal to the Supreme Court by a party relying on a State statute held by a court of appeals to be invalid as repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States; (3) providing certification to the Supreme Court at any time by a court of appeals on any question of law in any civil or criminal case as to which instructions are desired; and (4) granting review by appeal to the Supreme Court, of final State court judgments on questions involving the validity or unconstitutionality of a statute of the United States. (Repeals 28 U.S.C. 1252; 1254 (2), (3); 1257 (1), (2))
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