Note:
David L. Bryant, Selective Exercise of Jurisdiction in Bankruptcy-Related Civil Proceedings, 59 Texas L. Rev. 325 (1981).
 

Abstract:
The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 effected major changes in the bankruptcy code and contained a broad jurisdictional grant to bankruptcy courts. However, this Note argues that exercise of bankruptcy jurisdiction to the full extent permitted by the Code may impede rather than facilitate Congressional intent, because full exercise may congest bankruptcy courts with bankruptcy-related civil cases. Bankruptcy courts should instead take advantage of the Code provision allowing them to abstain “in the interests of justice” whenever litigation that is only tangentially related to bankruptcy law comes along.