Nilsen v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• holding that a determination by a state court that it has jurisdiction of the case is generally conclusive when the jurisdictional question is fully litigated
• lower federal court lacks power to vacate Mississippi Supreme Court decision approving jurisdiction of Mississippi trial court
• law of the case doctrine does not preclude examination of issue when a prior panel denied a petition for writ of mandamus since the denial could have been predicated on the fact that the party had an adequate remedy on appeal and not necessarily on the merits of the claim