The last time Congress passed a law withdrawing jurisdiction for the federal courts concerning the building of the Alaska pipeline. A federal court in San Francisco (naturally) had issued an injunction against the project at the behest of tree-huggers (of course). Congress stripped the courts of jurisdiction over the project, and the case immediately died.
When courts find that they have no jurisdiction, at any point in a case, their power to act ends on the spot. Think of it this way: even if the suit is over and the environmentalists have, at that point, prevailed, if the court loses its jurisdiction, because Congress says so, even if the decision somehow survives, the court is powerless to issue any order to enforce it. A decision that is totally unenforceable is indistinguishable from no decision, or a decision that the environmentalists lose rather than win.
Congressman Billybob
Two more questions: do you know if the state E.P.A. has any jurisdiction here? and...do you know what exactly the "Daschle covert exemption" includes (or more properly I should say "excludes regulation on")?