Effect of Waiver or Compromise

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1. As a general rule, can private waiver create subject-matter jurisdiction where law grants none?
2. Which agreement ordinarily cannot supply a court’s missing subject-matter jurisdiction?
3. How does the ordinary civil Rule9 waiver principle treat lack of subject-matter jurisdiction?
4. Parties submit a compromise to a court concededly lacking statutory authority over their class of dispute. They argue u…
5. A defendant omitted an ordinary procedural objection and also identifies that the court lacks jurisdiction over the sub…
6. An RTC has no subject-matter jurisdiction under the governing law. Both parties initially ask it to approve their settl…
7. A litigant invokes the2019 affirmative-defense amendments to argue that the general subject-matter rule disappeared and…
8. Can parties confer absent subject-matter jurisdiction through a compromise? Distinguish private settlement from judicia…
9. Explain why lack of subject-matter jurisdiction cannot be treated as an ordinary waived objection merely because an ans…
10. A party promptly withdraws an initial request for relief after discovering absent subject-matter jurisdiction. Why is p…
11. Which Civil Code provision expressly excludes the jurisdiction of courts from valid compromise?
12. Under Rule 9 Section 1, must a court ignore a subject-matter defect appearing from the record merely because neither pa…