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As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.
By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.
( As we have seen, the Erie and York decisions require federal courts in diversity cases to follow state decisional rules.
To put it differently, state and federal courts have concurrent jurisdiction with respect to most claims of federal right.
Although it is in some ways comparable to a voluntary sale of assets for cash, to which section 203 quite clearly applies, the courts and Treasury have held that acquiring corporations in several types of non-taxable reorganizations may sue for refund of taxes paid by transferors.
Thus far, the cases which have come before the courts have involved only the issue of referral where the job is vacant due to a strike -- condition ( 1 ) in the Regulation of the Secretary.
The suit, as we have seen, came before the courts when patent attorneys, inventors, and laymen were making mounting demands for reforms in the American patent system.
In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.
Some courts have samples of a notice of appeal on the court's own web site.
In an adversarial system, appellate courts do not have the power to review lower court decisions unless a party appeals it.
Historically, others have titled their appellate court a court of errors ( or court of errors and appeals ), on the premise that it was intended to correct errors made by lower courts.
Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.
Some appellate courts, particularly supreme courts, have the power of discretionary review, meaning that they can decide whether they will hear an appeal brought in a particular case.
Foreign courts needed to have American grievances laid before them persuasively in a “ manifesto ” which could also reassure them that the Americans would be reliable trading partners.
Civil law countries often have specialized courts, administrative courts, that review these decisions.
Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.
Unlike France or Germany, there are no special administrative courts of first instance in the Netherlands, but regular courts have an administrative " chamber " which specializes in administrative appeals.
In an adversarial system, there is no more controversy and the case proceeds to sentencing ; though in many jurisdictions the defendant must have allocution of her or his crime, a false confession will not be accepted even in common law courts.
The apartment where this is to have taken place is one of the most beautiful courts of the Alhambra, and is still called the Hall of the Abencerrages.
Chiefs and other leaders preside over customary, traditional courts, though all persons have the right to request that their case be considered under the formal British-based legal system.
Since inside pitching is a legitimate tactic in baseball, courts have recognized that being hit by a pitch is an inherent risk of the game, so that players cannot sue for any resulting injuries.

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However, the use of Basque by Spanish nationals in French courts is allowed ( with translation ), as Basque is officially recognized on the other side of the border.
Before 1873, England had two parallel court systems: courts of " law " that could only award money damages and recognized only the legal owner of property, and courts of " equity " ( courts of chancery ) that could issue injunctive relief ( that is, a court order to a party to do something, give something to someone, or stop doing something ) and recognized trusts of property.
This technique has not been recognized in any published opinions of the United States courts.
In a sense, the most superior courts in civil law jurisdictions, such as the Cour de cassation and the Conseil d ' État in France are recognized as being bodies of a quasi-legislative nature.
This head-of-state immunity, recognized by the United States, must be distinguished from that envisaged under the United States ' Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, which, while recognizing the basic immunity of foreign governments from being sued in American courts, lays down nine exceptions, including commercial activity and actions in the United States by agents or employees of the foreign governments.
In Mills v. Duryee,, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the merits of a case, as settled by courts of one state, must be recognized by the courts of other states ; state courts may not reopen cases which have been conclusively decided by the courts of another state.
Later, Chief Justice John Marshall suggested that the judgment of one state court must be recognized by other states ' courts as final.
1959 ), courts have recognized public policy exceptions to at-will terminations.
In the UK, criminal courts or the Home Secretary can refer people to what are known as psychiatric secure units, even though for many decades now, the term " criminally insane " is no longer legally or medically recognized.
Of great importance in the ecclesiastical history of England was a council which Stephen opened at Osney on 17 April 1222 ; its decrees, known as the Constitutions of Stephen Langton, are the earliest provincial canons which are still recognized as binding in English church courts.
The courts have since recognized a limited exception to the Norris-LaGuardia Act's strict limitations in those cases in which a party seeks injunctive relief to enforce the grievance arbitration provisions of a collective bargaining agreement.
Unless the statutes where the marriage occurred specify that a name change may occur at marriage ( in which case the marriage certificate indicates the new name ), the courts have officially recognized that such a change is a result of the common law right of a person ( man, woman, and sometimes child ) to change their name.
Although De Forest ultimately won the case in the courts, Owens is today recognized as a central innovator in the field.
Scientologists say that the church's main goal is to be recognized as a religion, which on occasion has met resistance from opponents ( including national governments ), and this has forced it to have recourse to the courts.
In some countries the practice of a detective is not yet recognized in courts and judicial processes.
Due to his recognized honesty and his knowledge of human nature, he was chosen to act as arbitrator and mediator for people conducting suits against each other ; and his services were brought into frequent requisition because the Jews had their own civil courts in Poland.

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As America's Founding Fathers shared a perfect horror at the concept of arbitrary courts of justice, such as those " of Philip in the Netherlands, in which life and property were daily confiscated without a jury, and which occasioned as much misery and a more rapid depopulation of the province ", they incorporated the right to trial by jury into the Bill of Rights, thereby restoring what soon-to-be United States Supreme Court Justice James Iredell described as that " noble palladium of liberty ", and protecting it from the reach of future legislators.
It is important, when discussing the history of the Bill of Rights, to realize the Supreme Court held in Barron v. Baltimore ( 1833 ) that it was enforceable by the federal courts only against the federal government, and not against the states.
Because Indian tribal governments retain sovereignty over tribal members, the U. S. Congress in 1968 enacted a law that essentially applies most of the protections of the Bill of Rights to tribal members, to be enforced mainly by tribal courts.
For instance, on 21 July 1995 a libel case brought by Neil Hamilton ( then a member of parliament ) against The Guardian was stopped after Justice May ruled that the Bill of Rights ' prohibition on the courts ' ability to question parliamentary proceedings would prevent The Guardian from obtaining a fair trial.
The Norris – La Guardia Act ( also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill ) was a 1932 United States federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions.
Even if a similar bill is enacted, its practical effect may not be clear: proponents of the bill have argued that it is a valid exercise of Congress's power to regulate the jurisdiction of the federal courts under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, but opponents question whether Congress has the authority to prevent the Supreme Court from hearing claims based on the Bill of Rights ( since amendments postdate the original text of the Constitution and may thus implicitly limit the scope of Article III, Section 2 ).
The courts also chose to interpret the Bill of Rights conservatively, only on rare occasions applying it to find a contrary law inoperative.
Another general approach to interpreting Charter rights is to consider legal precedent regarding the United States Bill of Rights, which influenced the text of the Charter and has generated a great deal of thoughts on the extent of rights in a common law, democratic system and how bills of rights should be enforced by courts.
Ultimately, the case was bogged down in the courts, " much to the delight of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who knows all too well the value of Billy as a cultural icon and a draw for tourists ".
Because “ the right to petition is ‘ among the most precious of the liberties safeguarded by the Bill of Rights ,’ ... the right of access to the courts shares this ‘ preferred place ’ in our hierarchy of constitutional freedoms and values.
Recognizing that the amendments did not follow the Supreme Court's ruling, the provincial legislature invoked section 33 of the Canadian Charter ( also known as the notwithstanding clause ) to shield Bill 178 from review by courts for five years.
As constitutional scholar Peter Hogg points out in his book Constitutional Law of Canada, however, the new wording of section 7 removed the context of the " fair hearing " found in the Canadian Bill of Rights, which meant the definition of fundamental justice was now ambiguous and could still be further developed by Canadian courts.
Although Aboriginal people faced widespread discrimination in rural Australia at this time, Goolagong was able to play tennis in Barellan from childhood thanks to a kindly resident, Bill Kurtzman, who saw her peering through the fence at the local courts and encouraged her to come in and play.
His successes included the introduction of a new Criminal Justice Bill while also bringing in reforms in the Garda Síochána, the courts and the prison service and the facing down of a difficult prison officers ' dispute.
The Environmental Enforcement Bill would increase the fines for individuals and corporations for serious offenses, give enforcement officers new powers to investigate cases and grants courts new sentencing authorities that ensure penalties reflect the seriousness of the pollution and wildlife offences.
However, the federal courts have yet to make it clear how this logic applies to persons who are deceased ( such as Henry Ossian Flipper-who was pardoned by Bill Clinton ), those who are relieved from penalties as a result of general amnesties and those whose punishments are relieved via a commutation of sentence ( which cannot be rejected in any sense of the language.
The Akaka Bill has been supported as a means of restoring Hawaiian self-determination lost with the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and would include giving up the ability to sue for sovereignty in federal courts in exchange for recognition by the federal government ( but would not block sovereignty claims made under international law.
The Supreme Court previously held, in Barron v. Baltimore, 32 U. S. 243 ( 1833 ), that the Constitution's Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government, that states were free to enforce statutes that restricted the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, and that the federal courts could not interfere with the enforcement of such statutes.
In addition, in interpreting the Bill of Rights, the courts " must promote the values that underlie a democratic society based on freedom and equality and must, if relevant, have regard to public international law.
Acting on these sentiments, Lord Ripon, viceroy from 1880 to 1885, extended the powers of local self-government and sought to remove racial practices in the law courts by the Ilbert Bill.
Justice Felix Frankfurter, however — joined later by Justice John M. Harlan — felt that the federal courts should only apply those sections of the Bill of Rights that were " fundamental to a scheme of ordered liberty.
Issues of different national customs can arise – while the U. S. and host countries generally agree on what constitutes a crime, many U. S. observers feel that host country justice systems grant a much weaker set of protections to the accused than the U. S. and that the host country's courts can be subject to popular pressure to deliver a guilty verdict ; furthermore, that American servicemembers ordered to a foreign posting should not be forced to give up the rights they are afforded under the Bill of Rights.
Shortly after his election, Vellacott announced that he would introduce a Private Member's Bill to eliminate the national Court Challenges Program, which provides funding for groups that bring human rights cases before the Canadian courts.

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