The FELA remedy is based on tort principles of ordinary negligence and differs significantly from most state workers ' compensation benefit schedules.

The same rule of specialization and division of labor guides him in the FELA certiorari cases, in the administrative law area, and indeed in the whole realm of judicial review.

( See: FELA, 1908 ; FECA, 1916 ; Kern, 1918.

688., essentially a remedy very similar to the FELA one.

See the Federal Employers Liability Act ( FELA ) for further reference.

* 1908 — The Federal Employers Liability Act ( FELA ), 5645 U. S. C.

Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

The federal and state judiciaries have played an important role in the development of environmental law in the United States, in many cases resolving significant controversy regarding the application of federal environmental laws in favor of environmental interests.

For subject matter jurisdiction, the claims in the case must either: ( 1 ) raise a Federal Question ( i. e., a cause of action or defense arising under the Constitution, a Federal statute, or the law of admiralty ); or have diversity of parties ( i. e., all of the defendants are from a different state than the Plaintiff ), and have an amount in controversy that exceeds a monetary threshold ( which changes from time to time, but is $ 75, 000 as of 2011 ).

In response to the controversy surrounding The Bell Curve, the American Psychological Association's Board of Scientific Affairs established a task force in 1995 to write a report on the state of intelligence research which could be used by all sides as a basis for discussion, " Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns ".

In 1975, Foot, along with Jennie Lee and others, courted controversy when they supported Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, after she prompted the declaration of a state of emergency.

In mid-1968 Askin famously became embroiled in a media controversy over the reporting of several words spoken to the United States Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney on 32 July 1968 ( also the day Opposition Leader Renshaw resigned, to be replaced by Pat Hills ), in which he spoke of the October 1966 state visit by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.

As Scopes pointed out to James Presley in the book Center of the Storm, on which the two collaborated: " After was accepted by the state as a special prosecutor in the case, there was never any hope of containing the controversy within the bounds of constitutionality.

Section 2 provides that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in cases affecting ambassadors, ministers and consuls, and also in those controversies which are subject to federal judicial power because at least one state is a party ; the Court has held that the latter requirement is met if the United States has a controversy with a state.

* February 15 – The United States House of Representatives agrees to the Tallmadge Amendment barring slaves from the new state of Missouri ( the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the Missouri Compromise ).

In 1976, he briefly reentered the public spotlight and engendered controversy with anti-Zionist statements that called for the United States to withdraw its support for the state of Israel, citing Israel's allegedly bad treatment of Christians, as well as what Gerald Ford publicly criticized as " unsavory remarks about Jews.

Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Missouri participated in their first presidential election in 1820, Missouri with controversy, since it was not yet officially a state ( see below ).

This leads to controversy as to the role of state institutions in the promotion of social capital.

These developments have attracted controversy from socially conservative officials representing other regions of the state.

In the wake of continued controversy and an effort in the state legislature to simply abolish the town, an agreement was reached in 2003 to provide for the incorporation of the remaining portions of the Town into the City of Madison and the City of Fitchburg by October 30, 2022.

Although the name quite clearly refers to the two main ingredients, the controversy over its cocaine content would later prompt The Coca-Cola Company to state that the name was " meaningless but fanciful.

There is some controversy in physics as to whether such uncertainty is an irreducible property of nature or if there are " hidden variables " that would describe the state of a particle even more exactly than Heisenberg's uncertainty principle allows.

The controversy regarding the political status of Taiwan ( or " Taiwan Issue " as referred to by the Communist Party of China ) hinges on whether Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu should remain effectively independent as territory of the Republic of China ( ROC ), become unified with the territories now governed by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), or formally declare independence and become the Republic of Taiwan ; furthermore, on whether its existence and status as a state (" country ") is legitimate and recognized by the international community.

The final state of Henry VIII's will has occasioned controversy.

The name Marine Commandos met with much controversy within the Marine Corps leading Commandant Thomas J. Holcomb to state, " the term ' Marine ' is sufficient to indicate a man ready for duty at any time, and the injection of a special name, such as commando, would be undesirable and superfluous.

One controversy that has broken out in bankruptcy courts since 2007 concerns the proper amount of disclosure that the court and other parties are entitled to receive from the members of the ad hoc creditor's committees that play a large role in many such proceedings.

A court whose subject-matter is not limited to certain types of controversy is referred to as a court of general jurisdiction.

Thus the Court's ruling would be nothing more than an advisory opinion ; therefore, the court dismissed the suit for failing to present a " case or controversy.

His work in this period became the subject of controversy, and many scholars have thought that Ockham was summoned before the Papal court of Avignon in 1324 under charges of heresy.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been the subject of controversy in Arizona, where a parent group's attempt to have it removed from a required reading list was struck down by the court.

He argued that, as he had opposed the Life Peerages Act 1958, it would be hypocritical for him to take one, but even if he was willing to accept a hereditary peerage ( which would have been extinct upon his death as he had no male heir ), Thatcher was unwilling to court the controversy that might have arisen as a result.

A somewhat obscure chain of events followed ( the so-called " Moechian controversy ," from the Greek moichos, " adulterer "), in which Theodore initiated a protest against the marriage from the Sakkudion Monastery, and appears to have demanded the excommunication, not only of the priest Joseph, but also of all who had received communion from him, which, as Joseph was a priest of the imperial church, included implicitly the emperor and his court.

Bloch diagnosed the disease as due to ' congestion of blood in the brain ' ( a meaningless diagnosis in modern medical practice as such congestion is anatomically impossible ), and after some controversy this diagnosis was also accepted by the famous Hanoverian court physician, Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, an admirer of Mendelssohn.

Zaharoff appeared in London in the midst of a controversy that had him in court over irregular commercial actions involving the export of certain goods from Constantinople to London.

The precise definition of " religion ", and to which groups it applies, can also cause controversy, for example the case of Scientologists who have all rights of religious freedom but complain that the highest court decided not to grant the status of a Non-profit organization in several states.

But as a result of legal intervention against the latter book, the pressure of the court case and surrounding controversy left Mykle a reclusive who published little thereafter.

In her writing, she casts a critical eye over court life ; the account is not always a flattering one, and has become the subject of controversy in Thailand ; she has also been accused of exaggerating her influence with the king.

Throughout this controversy, unlike the court bishops, Bossuet constantly resided in his diocese and took an active interest in its administration.

Under the deal Renault supplies the cabins and the engines and Praga supplied axles and transmissions for the prototypes ; however the whole project has been dogged by controversy due to the way Tatra had obtained the contract, its relationship with supplier Praga and the subsequent court case brought on against it by Praga.

The legality of such techniques controversy has been questioned in the United States, in particular whether a court warrant is required.

Civil claims with an amount in controversy under £ 5, 000 are dealt with in the County Court under the Small Claims Track ( sometimes known to the lay public as " Small Claims Court ," although it is not a separate court ).

Small claims court handles civil cases where a plaintiff requests assignment to a magistrate and the amount in controversy is $ 5, 000 or less.

After over a decade of controversy and legal action from local residents, McDonald's was finally allowed to open in Hampstead in 1992, after winning its right in court, and agreeing to a previously unprecedented re-design of the shop front, reducing the conspicuousness of its facade and logo.

The resulting national controversy surrounding burning 32 copies of Slaughterhouse Five resulted in an out of court settlement including permission for it to be taught to the high school juniors and seniors.

Dewsbury is known for having a Shariah arbitration court, which has caused some controversy.

He also advanced the bold idea of gathering together Maimonides ' defenders and opponents in Alexandria, in order to bring the controversy before a court of Babylonian rabbis, whose decision would be binding on both factions.

The start of the court is also linked with the controversy of Yamataikoku and its fall.

From 1831 to 1833, Mill was largely occupied in the defence of the East India Company, during the controversy attending the renewal of its charter, he being in virtue of his office the spokesman of the court of directors.