Why Must Read The Federal Courts and The Federal System (University Casebook Series)?

Federal Courts is hard enough without the textbook being incomprehensible on top of it all. This book needs to be comprehensively edited to slim down the unnecessarily long sentences. It also needs to rewrite the sentences so they are in plain English rather than convoluted word salad. I’m not talking about the cases or the principles; those are difficult, to be sure, but adding on top of it having to constantly translate this textbook’s sentence structure into something I can understand makes Federal Courts even more frustrating. Every sentence in the notes seems to have the subject and verb separated by three or more clauses and use complicated verb constructions for no reason at all. Why not say “state procedure was accepted” instead of “state procedure had a claim to acceptance”? No good reason. Why can you not say “the court exceeded its jurisdiction because...” instead of “the court, because it had not made the findings required by the Act in order to issue an injunction in a labor dispute, had exceeded its jurisdiction”? By the time I get to the end of the sentence, I’ve forgotten why I read that middle part. This book is abhorrent and needs a serious overhaul. Lawyers today are taught that we should write in English. This book flies in the face of everything we are taught.