Supreme Court rules for abortion protesters in civil disobedience case
His tenure was also notable for his concurring opinion in the Dred Scott decision, which made slavery legal in all the territories and fanned the flames of sectional controversy that led to the American Civil War. Though he opposed as imprudent the Southern states’ secession from the Union, ...
and a surge in the demands placed by citizens on government. As the number of certiorari requests has increased, the number of cases decided by the Supreme Court has declined since the 1950s and ’60s, whencivil rightscases dominated the docket, as thejusticeshave opted to hear fewer cases ...
BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Zheng Xuelin, former chief judge of the No. 1 Civil Adjudication Tribunal of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC), has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) over serious violations of Party discipline and laws. ...
The dispute involves the constitutionality of laws that punish homeless people with civil citations for camping on public property when they have nowhere else to go. Arguments come as the nation confronts aspike in homelessnessdriven in part by high housing costs, and a ruling is likely to reac...
The Supreme People’s Court (SPC), along with the Ministry of Justice, held a press conference on 9 September, reported here, to announce the publication of the 2023 annual report of judicial review of commercial arbitration. It was written by the SPC’s #4 Civil Division in collaboration ...
As I have previously written, most of the civil and administrative retrial applications to the SPC are unsuccessful, but it requires SPC judicial time to review them. For Americans, a useful but not entirely appropriate analogy is the petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court. The report ...
Judge Guo Feng, deputy head of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC)’s Research Office, with theranking of first level inspector (a senior non-leadership position(一级巡视员)spokein late October at the annual meeting of the China Law Society’s Civil Law Research Group, at which he revealed...
civilsupremeevideevidducincourt 【StatuteTitle】SomeProvisionsoftheSupremePeople'sCourtonEvidenceinCivilProcedures[现行有效]【法规标题】最高人民法院关于民事诉讼证据的若干规定[Effective]Promulgationdate:12-21-2001Effectivedate:04-01-2002Department:SupremePeople'sCourtSubject:CivilLitigation发布日期:2001-12-21生...
The U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling Thursday curbed the Security and Exchange Commission's ability to penalize defendants accused of fraud without a jury trial. In the SEC v. Jarkesy case, the high court ruled that the regulator's practice of handing down civil penalties from a...