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.
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.”