[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 21, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H8916-H8917]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1534, PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS 
                       IMPLEMENTATION ACT OF 1997

  Mr. McINNIS (during the special order of the gentleman from New York, 
Mr. Owens) submitted a privileged report (Rept. No. 105-335) on the 
resolution (H. Res. 271) providing for the consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 1534) to simplify and expedite access to the Federal courts for 
injured parties whose rights and privileges, secured by the United

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States Constitution, have been deprived by final actions of Federal 
agencies, or other government officials or entities acting under color 
of State law; to prevent Federal courts from abstaining from exercising 
Federal jurisdiction in actions where no State law claim is alleged; to 
permit certification of unsettled State law questions that are 
essential to resolving Federal claims arising under the Constitution; 
and to clarify when government action is sufficiently final to ripen 
certain Federal claims arising under the Constitution, which was 
referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

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