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The following abstract summarizes the text of submissions made to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. The abstract is organized by NBRC working group and topic.

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**Jurisdiction: Reference/Abstention**
ID	Name	Group	Other	Code Sec	Cross Ref	Problem Referenced	Proposed Solutions
NBRC- 0303	Commercial Law League of America	Commercial Law League of America (CLLA)				The Commerical Law League of America believes that the following issue should be considered by the NBRC: whether Congress should eliminate provisions in Title 28 requiring mandatory abstention from the exercise of jurisdiction by the district court in certain circumstances,	The CLLA believes that this issue should receive moderate priority, and does not recommend a significant investment of the NBRC's resources on this issue.
NBRC- 0320	Robert M. Zinman, on behalf of the Bankruptcy Institute	American Bankruptcy Institute ("ABI")	Numerous position papers, memoranda and research material			In this statement before the NBRC, the author states that ABI members generally agree that as long as the bankruptcy system remains as an Article I court, the vesting jurisdiction initially in the U.S. District Court would seemingly mandate some form of reference system. With regard to abstention, if the bankruptcy power is to be exercised in such a away as to deal with the often comprehensive and complex issues that arrive in chpater 11 cases, abstention should be discretionary and not mandatory	Supports some form of reference system, and believes that abstetion should be at the discretion of the bankruptcy court.