Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or [email protected].

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Subject matter jurisdiction is the authority given a court, either from the constitution of the nation or of a state, or the legislature of the nation or that state, to ...