SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION

Term refers to court‘s power to hear and determine cases of the general class or category to which proceedingsin question belong; the power to deal with the general subject involved in the action. Standard Oil Co. v. Montecatini Edison S. p. A., D.C.Del., 342 F.Supp. 125, 129.

 

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Mr. Green claims that in Yates v. Village of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, 209 F.Supp. 757 (N.D.Ill. 1962), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held that “[w]hen a judge acts as a trespasser of the law, when a judge does not follow the law, the judge loses subject-matter jurisdiction and the judges’ orders are void, of no legal force or effect.”

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