The subject of the case today was the 11th Amendment, which bars jurisdiction in the Federal courts to hear suits against a state by citizens of another state.

In May 1824, Congress authorized the superior courts of each territory to hear suits from those who claimed they had been overlooked.

The Audienciawas to devote two days a week to hearing suits to which Indians were parties.

The machi bugyō heard criminal and civil suits, and performed other administrative functions.

The chief baron along with the three puisne barons, sat as a court of common law, heard suits in the court of equity, and settled revenue disputes.

In March, New Hampshire filed its case against Maine directly in the Supreme Court, invoking the court's constitutional "original" jurisdiction to hear suits between states.

Elected justices there recently refused to disqualify themselves from hearing suits in which tens or hundreds of millions of dollars were at stake.

That is my office, to hear suits and prayers; Cretans would always rather pray to a woman.

Most Judicial Magistrates may hear civil suits as well.

The statute, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, generally withholds jurisdiction from the federal courts to hear suits against foreign governments.