University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository Minnesota Law Review 2002 Lurking in the Shadows of Judicial Process: Special Masters in the Supreme Court's Original Jurisdiction Cases Anne-Marie C. Carstens Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Carstens, Anne-Marie C., "Lurking in the Shadows of Judicial Process: Special Masters in the Supreme Court's Original Jurisdiction Cases" (2002). Minnesota Law Review. 846. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/846 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Minnesota Law Review collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Lurking in the Shadows of Judicial Process: Special Masters in the Supreme Court's Original Jurisdiction Cases t Anne-Marie C. Carstens INTRODUCTION ..................................................... 626 I. THE COURT'S ORIGINAL JURISDICTION, IN PERSPECTIVE ............................................. 631 A. The OriginalJurisdiction Clause .................. 631 B. Cases Arising under the Original JurisdictionClause ...................................... 638 II. CALLED TO WORK: THE SPECIAL MASTERS' ROLE IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION LITIGATION .......... 641 A. The Emergence of the Special Master ............. 641 B. The Identity of the Special Master .................. 644 C. The Master Proceedings .............................. 653 III. THE MASTER AT WORK: NEW JERSEY V. NEW YORK ..................................................... 658 A. The History of the Ellis Island Dispute ............ 658 B. The Special Master's Role in New Jersey v. New York ............................ 662 C. The Court's Decision in New Jersey v. New York ................................................... 666 IV. THE MASTER PREDICAMENT ................................ 668 A.