Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense program.

Category: United States federal civil rights legislation

It extended citizenship to every person born in the United States ( except Indians on reservations ), penalized states that did not give the vote to freedmen, and most importantly, created new federal civil rights that could be protected by federal courts.

* 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

" Historian Ron Chernow says of this " he wasn't calling for peaceful protests or civil disobedience: he was calling for outright rebellion, if needed, against the federal government of which he was vice president.

Canadian federal statutes must use the terminology of both the common law and civil law for those matters ; this is referred to as legislative bijuralism.

Under § 1332 ( d ) ( 2 ) the federal district courts have original jurisdiction over any civil action where the amount in controversy exceeds $ 5, 000, 000 and

However, some states like California have civil procedure systems which deviate significantly from the federal rules ; the California Codes provide for four separate types of class actions.

When the government proposed a new federal code of civil procedure in 2006, replacing the cantonal codes of civil procedure, it rejected the introduction of class actions, arguing that:

He sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, for the first time since Reconstruction to enforce federal court orders to desegregate public schools, and signed civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 to protect the right to vote.

Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.

While the pending Second Chance Act which may change this, at present the only relief that an individual prosecuted in federal court may receive is a Presidential Pardon, which does not expunge the conviction, but rather grants relief from the civil disabilities that stem from it.

The Constitution defines impeachment at the federal level and limits impeachment to " The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States " who may be impeached and removed only for " treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors ".

* Federal Jury Instruction Resource Page Collecting model or pattern federal civil and criminal jury instructions for trial courts by jurisdiction ( where available ) and subject matter.

The right to trial by jury in a civil case in federal court is addressed by the Seventh Amendment.

There is not a United States constitutional right under the Seventh Amendment to a jury trial in state courts, but in practice, almost every state except Louisiana, which has a civil law legal tradition, permits jury trials in civil cases in state courts on substantially the same basis that they are allowed under the Seventh Amendment in federal court.

Litigants who choose to assert federal claims in a state court go into that court subject to its rules of procedure.

Here, as in the Byrd case, another element of state procedure was subsumed to federal judge-made law.

:::: c ) shall announce referendums in accordance with the procedure established by federal constitutional law ;

This invalidated the procedure in many states and the federal courts that allowed sentencing enhancement based on " a preponderance of evidence ", where enhancement could be based on the judge's findings alone.

In 1938, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were adopted to govern civil procedure in United States federal courts.

Some of its major rulings have concerned federal preemption ( Wyeth v. Levine ), civil procedure ( Twombly-Iqbal ), abortion ( Gonzales v. Carhart ), and the Bill of Rights, prominently Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ( First Amendment ), Heller-McDonald ( Second Amendment ), and Baze v. Rees ( Eighth Amendment ).

* Title 28 governs procedure in the United States federal courts.

Congress has established a procedure whereby a party, typically the defendant, can " remove " a case from state court to federal court, provided that the federal court also has original jurisdiction over the matter.

Some argued that the amending formula required the federal government to gain the approval of at least seven provinces with at least half the national population ( the standard procedure ).

Since acquiring title to a full-blood's allotment would require a lengthy federal legal procedure, the committee shifted their attention to the allotment adjoining Oochaleta's on the east, a parcel belonging to committee member Claude L. " Jay " Washbourne.

In the United States, under the rules of civil procedure governing practice in federal courts and most state courts, the entry of judgment is the final order entered by the court in the case, leaving no further action to be taken by the court with respect to the issues contested by the parties to the lawsuit.

However, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held that the Massachusetts anti-SLAPP law, as a mere matter of procedure, does not apply in federal courts.

ALI code projects have included model acts dealing with air flight, criminal procedure, evidence, federal securities law, land development, pre-arraignment procedure, and property.

:* While the provinces have the power to create criminal courts, only the federal government has the power to determine criminal procedure and to appoint those courts ' judges.

Criminal procedure includes prosecution, and thus federal law can determine the extent of federal and provincial involvement in it.

it does not establish any law ( rights ) for the federal judges to enforce.

The Court held that Congress had intended the federal judiciary to `` fashion '' an appropriate law of labor-management contracts.

The Lincoln Mills decision authorizes a whole new body of federal `` common law '' which, as Mr. Justice Frankfurter pointed out in dissent, leads to one of the following `` incongruities '': `` ( ( 1 ) conflict in federal and state court interpretations of collective bargaining agreements ; ;

( 2 ) displacement of state law by federal law in state courts in all actions regarding collective bargaining agreements ; ;

Does Lincoln Mills suggest that if Congress granted jurisdiction over interstate divorce cases, the federal courts would be authorized to fashion a national law for the dissolution of marriages??

A careful student has suggested that `` In any new revision ( of the Judicial Code ) the legislators would do well to remember that the allocation of power to the federal courts should be limited to those matters in which their expertise in federal law might be used, leaving to the state judiciaries the primary obligation of pronouncing state law ''.

With few exceptions, Congress has not given federal courts exclusive authority to enforce rights arising under federal law.

The result, of course, would be that federal law inevitably would mean different things in different states.

Mr. Justice Black led a reversing majority: `` Strict local rules of pleading cannot be used to impose unnecessary burdens upon rights of recovery authorized by federal law ''.

He signed into law Senator Charles Sumner's Freedman's Bureau bill that set up a temporary federal agency designed to meet the immediate material needs of former slaves.

* Anti-Deficiency Act, U. S. law that prohibits the federal government from incurring debts not authorized by Congress

It was renamed in honor of Lyndon Johnson by federal law, soon after his death in 1973.

His veto message objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when eleven out of thirty-six states were unrepresented in the Congress, and the bill also attempted to fix, by federal law, " a perfect equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union.

In January 2005, a federal law came into force in Germany – the Luftsicherheitsgesetz – that allowed " direct action by armed force " against a hijacked aircraft to prevent a 9 / 11-type attack.

The terms of the Artistic License 1. 0 were at issue in a 2007 federal district court decision in the US which was criticized by some for suggesting that FOSS-like licenses could only be enforced through contract law rather than through copyright law, in contexts where contract damages would be difficult to establish.

Shortly after the Thomas confirmation hearings, President George H. W. Bush dropped his opposition to a bill giving harassment victims the right to seek federal damage awards, back pay and reinstatement, and the law was passed by Congress.

The VwVfG basically applies for the entire public administrative activities of federal agencies as well as federal state authorities, in case of making federal law.