Mr. Padilla's case has languished in the federal appeals system for years, in part because of jurisdictional questions.

It was clear that the justices, while resolving the jurisdictional questions, were fully aware of the broader context as well.

Union lawyers will counter that Nicolau does have jurisdiction and, anyway, the fairness issue overrides the jurisdictional question.

Aside from jurisdictional questions over who can invoke the doctrine, lawyers will argue over what kinds of water are to be held in public trust.

The conference addressed many of the jurisdictional and administrative questions that still bedevil the idea.

It attempts to unravel the state-Federal jurisdictional question.

But it was not a jurisdictional question, for his jurisdiction to decide it did not depend on the correctness of the answer he gave.

There are jurisdictional questions to be sorted out.

This assertion represented the third position the Bush side has taken on the jurisdictional question.

Nonetheless, the Swiss investigators were hit immediately by a barrage of procedural and jurisdictional questions from Mexican officials.