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What is Federal Jurisdiction when the US is a Party? Federal courts have exclusive subject-matter jurisdiction in civil or criminal lawsuits against the United States or its representatives. That is, any case in which the US Government is a plaintiff or defendant, the matter can only be hea...
1.(Law) (in Scotland) a court of summary jurisdiction held by a stipendiary magistrate or one or more justices of the peace to deal with minor criminal offences 2.(Law) (in the US) a.a federal trial court serving a federal judicial district ...
In Personam Jurisdiction in Federal Courts over Foreign Corporations: The Need for a Federal Long-Arm StatuteBarry E. Cohen
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The criminal justice system in the USA has two levels when dealing with criminals – state and federal law. The law most people are familiar with is state law. This is handled by your county prosecutors office. TheFederal Governmenthas jurisdiction over federal laws, and the criminal process is...
“persons” did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes ofU.S.law. The Court also dismissed the detainees’ claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the Geneva Conventions, finding defendants immune on the basis that “...
The recent indictment of more than 40 individuals and entities in the FIFA corruption scandal demonstrates the expansive reach of the federal criminal law, raising important questions of extraterritorial jurisdiction and substantive law. This article argues that the existing law is sufficient to capture ...
1.FederalEnclaves:areasthatfallunderthe"specialmaritimeandterritorialjurisdictionoftheUnitedStates,"where statelawispreemptedandiftherewasnofederalcriminallaw,therewouldbenocriminallawatall a.includes:militarybases,nationalparks,postoffices,indianreservations,etc ...
Justice O’Connor concurred with the majority opinion in Lawrence that the Texas criminal statute, which banned only gay/lesbian sexual acts, was unconstitutional, but she did not agree that a statute such as the Georgia ban in Bowers, equally applicable to heterosexual and homosexual forms of no...