In the United States, Constitutional guarantees such as those included in the Fourth and Fifth amendments to protect an accused from unreasonable search and seizure or from self-incrimination have been referred to as " technicalities " by critics of court decisions based on them, even though they are foundations of the American legal system rather than obscure fine points.

The American public turned against the war eventually resulting in a withdrawal of US troops and the seizure of Saigon by communist forces in 1975 and communist victory in Vietnam.

This represented the first law in American history curtailing the use of seizure power.

" In 1984, Continental became the largest U. S. bank to fail in American history until the seizure of Washington Mutual in 2008.

In the letter he also apologized for the seizure of West Florida, said that it had not been American policy to seize Spanish territory, and offered to give St. Marks and Pensacola back to Spain.

The seizure of WaMu Bank resulted in the largest bank failure in American financial history, far exceeding the failure of Continental Illinois in 1984.

* 1942-Japanese American internment begins, per executive order by President Roosevelt ; the order also authorizes the seizure of their property.

In United States v. Motion Picture Film ( 1917 ), a federal court upheld the government's seizure of a film called The Spirit of ' 76 on the grounds that its depiction of cruelty on the part of British soldiers during the American Revolution would undermine support for America's wartime ally.

But later that evening, back in Tehran, the minister heard on the radio that Imam Khomeini had issued a statement supporting the seizure and calling it " the second revolution ", and the embassy an " American spy den in Tehran ".

After months of negotiations the United States had agreed to release several billion dollars in Iranian gold and bank assets, frozen in American banks just after the seizure of the embassy.

* William F. Keough, Jr., 50 — Superintendent of American School in Islamabad, Pakistan, visiting Tehran at time of embassy seizure ( Died 11 / 27 / 1985 )

In reaction to the seizure of the American vessels, Congress debated and approved the Naval Act of 1794, which authorized the building of six frigates, four of 44 guns and two of 36 guns.

By 1980 and the seizure of the American Embassy in Iran, there was a growing sense of national malaise.

While there was no formal declaration of war, the conflict escalated with more French seizures of American merchant ships, American seizure of French merchant ships, and the abrogation of the Franco-American Alliance.

Poinsett learned of the seizure of an American whaler searching for supplies from an intercepted letter from the governor of San Carlos de Chiloe to the viceroy of Lima.

The seizure of American ships by royalist Peru continued.

Marking of large specimens by the Crown was very controversial in the colonies, and their de facto seizure was a point of great contention among the colonists and played a significant role in the events leading to the American Revolution.

Pickering opposed the American seizure and annexation of Spanish West Florida in 1810, which he believed was both unconstitutional and an act of aggression against a friendly power.

These domestic difficulties were compounded by international complications: France, angered by American approval in 1795 of the Jay Treaty with its great enemy Britain proclaimed that food and war material bound for British ports were subject to seizure by the French navy.

Following this seizure, the residents of Iejima began a five decade campaign to oppose the American military.

Although the claims over the IPC were ultimately resolved in negotiations between the two governments, disagreements continued over such issues as Peru's claim to 200 mile fishing limit that resulted in the seizure of several US commercial fishing boats and the expropriation of the American copper mining company Cerro de Pasco Corporation.

Lovestone headed a 10 member delegation to Moscow to appeal his case to the American Commission of ECCI ; things did not go well for him and in the squabble over autonomy Lovestone attempted a factional coup involving the seizure of party assets.

Pennsylvania Democrat Paul Kanjorski opposed the bill, stating it would involve government seizure of " every American bank ".

Iranian demands for the release were now four: expression of remorse or an apology for the U. S. historical role in Iran, unlocking of " Iranian assets in America and withdraw any legal claims against Iran arising from the embassy seizure, and promise not to interfere in the future.

Abetz embarked on the job with enthusiasm and announced to the Wehrmacht that the embassy had been " charged with the seizure of French works of art ... and with the listing and seizure of works owned by Jews.

The OSU played a central role in the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran in November 1979.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

Gen. Rufus King, was incapacitated by an epileptic seizure at the time.

To one who had been a man of war from his youth, who had won and lost many fights, the rout of a detachment and the forcible seizure of some debatable frontier lands was an untoward incident ; but it was not a sufficient reason for calling upon the British, although they had guaranteed his territory's integrity, to vindicate his rights by hostilities which would certainly bring upon him a Russian invasion from the north, and would compel his British allies to throw an army into Afghanistan from the southeast.

This not only angered the lords of the south but also the French King, who was at least nominally the suzerain of the lords whose lands were now open to despoliation and seizure.

Once the usefulness of digitalis in regulating the human pulse was understood, it was employed for a variety of purposes, including the treatment of epilepsy and other seizure disorders, which are now considered to be inappropriate treatments.

Requisition was nothing more or less than seizure.

The largest success for the WIC in its history was the seizure of the Spanish silver fleet, which carried silver from Spanish colonies to Spain, by Piet Heyn in 1628 ; privateering was at first the most profitable activity.

He has offered apparently contradictory reasons for their removal: in one instance claiming that seizure medication he was taking caused periodontal disease, and in yet another claiming other kinds of dental problems which had troubled him for years.

In 2001, an uncut German DVD version was released, but the Berlin-Tiergarten Court ordered seizure of the DVD in April 2002 ( Case Number 351 Gs 1749 / 02 ).

Allen was appointed to be one of the judges responsible for deciding whose property was subject to seizure under the law.

One of the most important objectives for both Guards was the seizure of Haapamäki, a railway junction northeast of Tampere which connected both western-eastern and southern-northern Finland.

In January 2010 he was hospitalized after a seizure in Los Angeles, and in February he suffered another seizure on the set of The Insider television program.

On May 26, 2010, Coleman was admitted to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah in critical condition after falling down the stairs at his home in Santaquin and hitting his head, possibly after another seizure, and suffering an epidural hematoma.

After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Radbruch was dismissed from his civil service post, as the universities were public entities.

As second in command of the SS and then Reichsführer-SS, Himmler was in regular contact with Hitler to arrange for SS men as bodyguards ; Himmler was not involved with Nazi Party policy-making decisions in the years leading up to the seizure of power.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October.

He was an advocate " for the seizure of private homes ", which was an activity seen by the anarchists after the October revolution as direct expropriation on the bourgoise.