If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

If a Federal Court has subject matter jurisdiction over one or more of the claims in a case, it has discretion to exercise ancillary jurisdiction over other State Law claims.

If the jurisdiction does not have the resources to respond to complaints in a timely manner, the value of the hotline diminishes.

If no other jurisdiction has been established, recourse shall be to the ordinary courts.

If the person has a mental illness and it is determined that the mental illness interfered with the person's ability to determine right from wrong ( and other associated criteria a jurisdiction may have ) and if the person is willing to plead guilty or is proven guilty in a court of law, some jurisdictions have an alternative option known as either a Guilty but Mentally Ill ( GBMI ) or a Guilty but Insane verdict.

If the two sets of bodies do not have concurrent jurisdiction but, as in the case of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ), the relationship is expressly based on the principle of complementarity, i. e. the international court is subsidiary or complementary to national courts, the difficulty is avoided.

If the executive or legislative powers within the jurisdiction are not restricted or restricted only by a number of limited restrictions, these government branches have plenary power such as a national policing power.

* If Article III's original jurisdiction is an exhaustive list, but Congress tries to modify it anyway, who wins that conflict, Congress or the Constitution?

" If anyone says that the blessed Apostle Peter was not established by the Lord Christ as the chief of all the apostles, and the visible head of the whole militant Church, or, that the same received great honour but did not receive from the same our Lord Jesus Christ directly and immediately the primacy in true and proper jurisdiction: let him be anathema.

If anyone thus speaks, that the Roman Pontiff has only the office of inspection or direction, but not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which pertain to faith and morals, but also in those which pertain to the discipline and government of the Church spread over the whole world ; or, that he possesses only the more important parts, but not the whole plenitude of this supreme power ; or that this power of his is not ordinary and immediate, or over the churches altogether and individually, and over the pastors and the faithful altogether and individually: let him be anathema.

If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using list PR in its multimember districts ( MMDs ) the winning candidate needs a relative majority of the votes to win, so that the election in the SMD is by first-past-the-post.

If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using PR-STV in its MMDs, an absolute majority of 50 % plus 1 will likely be the minimum required for victory ( depending on which quota is used ) so that the election in the SMD is by the alternative vote.

If a court does not have personal jurisdiction over a party, its rulings or decrees cannot be enforced as to that person, otherwise than by comity, that is to the extent the sovereign that does have jurisdiction upon the person allows the court to.

If the Houses of Parliament of Northern Ireland had not made such a declaration, under Article 14 of the Treaty Northern Ireland, its Parliament and government would have continued in being but the Oireachtas would have had jurisdiction to legislate for Northern Ireland in matters not delegated to Northern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act.

If the Justice Department or federal court rejects a request for Preclearance, the jurisdiction may continue the prior voting practice or may adopt a substitute and seek Preclearance for it.

If the defendant fails to pay, the court has various powers to seize any of the defendant's assets located within its jurisdiction, such as:

If the Supreme Court could not review decisions from the highest State court, the State courts would be excluded from ever hearing a case in any way involving a Federal question, because the Supreme Court would be deprived of appellate jurisdiction in those cases.

If a person has committed an offense because of entrapment, the Court may stay the proceedings under its inherent jurisdiction to prevent abuses of process ( which prevents the case going ahead ) or exclude evidence under section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

If the magistrates consider that an either way offence is too serious for them to deal with, they may " decline jurisdiction " which means that the defendant will have to appear in the Crown Court.

If secession were to proceed, the Crees argue they would seek protection through the Canadian courts as well as asserting Cree jurisdiction over its people and lands.

If he appropriated or sold the implements, or impoverished or sublet the cattle, he was heavily fined and in default of payment, might be condemned to be torn to pieces by the cattle on the field.

:: If a container implements this interface, it allows embedded objects to be activated in place, i. e. without opening in a separate window.

::: If a container implements this interface, it allows embedded objects to check whether they need to redraw on activation or deactivation.

If he implements his business plan and in the process he ends up helping the environment, then people generally say he unintentionally helped the environment ; if he implements his business plan and in the process he ends up harming the environment, then people generally say he intentionally harmed the environment.

If the cluster implements process migration a single root view enables direct accesses to the files from the node where the process is currently running.

If there is no device that implements the function zero ( i. e., vendor and device ID registers ), the bus master performs an abort and returns all 1s in binary ( hexadecimal < tt > FFFFFFFF </ tt >).

Second round: If no candidate has won the required number of votes in the first round, the voting will be repeated in 14 days ( 1 of November, 1998 ).

" If people are voting tigers as their favourite animal, it means they recognise their importance, and hopefully the need to ensure their survival ," he said.

If no candidate succeeds in passing this threshold, a second round of voting is held with the participation of the two candidates who received the largest and second largest number of votes respectively.

If a majority of those voting, as well as separate majorities in each of a majority of states, ( and where appropriate a majority of people in any affected state ) vote in favour of the amendment, it is presented for Royal Assent, given in the Queen's name by the Governor-General.

If our ladies will insist on voting and legislating, where, gentleman, will be our dinners and our elbows?

If, then he should change about, wrong the people, maim its power, and rob it of the privilege of voting, he has by his own acts deprived himself of his honourable office by not fulfilling the conditions on which he received it ; for otherwise there would be no interference with a tribune even though he should try to demolish the Capitol or set fire to the naval arsenal.

If the maximum number of players does not receive 75 % after the first round of voting, then run-off votes are held.

If the experiment is repeated using approval voting, where voters are encouraged to vote for as many candidates as they approve of, then the winner is much more likely to be any one of the five marbles, because people who prefer green will be able to vote for every one of the green marbles.

If no candidate has received an absolute majority by the third round of voting, a simple majority is sufficient.

In 1976, he told a Libertarian activist that ' If I were a voting man, I'd vote for MacBride ' — LP nominee Roger MacBride, that is.

If voting was by Estate then the nobility and clergy would be able to overturn the commons ; if by head, then the larger Third Estate could dominate.

The 11th edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised states, " If it is desired to elect by mail, by plurality vote, by preferential voting, or by cumulative voting, this must be expressly stated, and necessary details of the procedure should be prescribed ( see 45 ).

If amendments are permitted under the rules governing floor action on the bill they are debated and voted upon at the time of the amendment ( although common practice usually permits the House to debate several amendments without immediately voting on them, then voting back-to-back at the end of the series of amendments.

Bright did not speak in the debate but Hamilton notes that great importance was attached to how Bright would vote: " If he abstained from voting or voted against the Government, the Unionist coalition would have been practically broken up.

" When asked who he was voting for in the 2008 election, he wrote: " If the polls in my home state are close: Obama ( McCain is simply too incompetent these days to be president ).

If the top vote-getter at a position has also been selected via fan voting, the second-place finisher in this category is selected.

If used to select candidates for an office, or for continuation to a next round of voting or play, it is either single-or multi-winner, as everyone who is not disapproved of is in effect a winner, for that round.

Here is an example where the no-confidence voting is applied, in Politics of Canada: " If the Commons passes a motion of no confidence in the government, the prime minister and his cabinet are expected either to resign their offices or to ask for Parliament to be dissolved so that a general election can be held.

If the motion to re-elect the Speaker fails, candidates are nominated, and the House proceeds with voting ( as described above ).

If a division is demanded, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives ( or, more commonly, a Representative of the majority party designed by the Speaker to preside as Speaker pro tempore ) or the Presiding Officer of the Senate asks those voting Yea to rise and remain standing until counted, and then asks those voting Nay to do the same.