Sentences with phrase «states military court»

Attorney McGuigan has tried numerous cases to verdict, and has acquittals for major Class A felonies in both State and Federal Courts, including the United States Military Court of Justice.

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The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

This time, two years later, the Supreme Court sustained Lincoln's position in the famous Prize Cases, a landmark recognizing a sweeping military power of the president to respond to attacks against the United States.

The bill comes after U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe declared June 26 as the primary for Congressional races in order for the state to comply with a law governing timely access to military and overseas ballots.

«We strongly belief that President Buhari, must be seen to be acting contrary to court decisions on the use of Military during elections as clearly stated in the rulings of Justice Aikawa of the Federal High Court, who in his judgment, restrained the President and Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and INEC from engaging the service of the Nigerian armed forces in the security supervision of elections in any manner whatsoever in any part of Nigeria, without the Act of the National Assecourt decisions on the use of Military during elections as clearly stated in the rulings of Justice Aikawa of the Federal High Court, who in his judgment, restrained the President and Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and INEC from engaging the service of the Nigerian armed forces in the security supervision of elections in any manner whatsoever in any part of Nigeria, without the Act of the National AsseCourt, who in his judgment, restrained the President and Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and INEC from engaging the service of the Nigerian armed forces in the security supervision of elections in any manner whatsoever in any part of Nigeria, without the Act of the National Assembly.

New York and 12 other states have settled an investigation into improper lending with a court agreement to shut down the company and expected to provide $ 92 million in debt relief for 17,800 U.S. military personnel.

The DPP urged the court to exercise its discretion in favour of the state because Aluko had given evidence under cross examination that the election which brought Fayose into power was free, fair and credible devoid of military harassment.

The British military ban on gays was overturned in 1999 following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights which stated the ban violated a person's right to a private life.

Abaribe told the court that he «lacks capacity to produce a person stated by the 1st Respondent to be a member of a terrorist organisation, or any persin whom the 1st Respondent is reported to be interested in his whereabouts including the aftermat of the military operations in Abia state which commenced about 11th September, 2017».

The offices filled by the Council included the State Comptroller, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Surveyor General, the Chancellor, the justices of the New York Supreme Court, sheriffs, district attorneys, judges, surrogates, city and county clerks, mayors (including the Mayor of New York City), all military officers and many others.

Spock, Hobson, Jenness, Pulley, and others then filed a case that ultimately made its way to the United States Supreme Court (424 U.S. 828 — Greer, Commander, Fort Dix Military Reservation, et al., v. Spock et al.), which ruled against the plaintiffs.

The Court is scheduled to rule after December 1st on the US Department of Justice's motion to compel New York State to comply with the MOVE Act requirement to transmit ballots to military and overseas voters not later than 45 days before election day for federal office rather than the 32 day deadline currently provided for in state staState to comply with the MOVE Act requirement to transmit ballots to military and overseas voters not later than 45 days before election day for federal office rather than the 32 day deadline currently provided for in state stastate statute.

This week, the families of the Newtown shooting victims plan to be in Hartford, listening as lawyers lay out in state Supreme Court their case that the companies that manufactured and sold the military - style assault rifle used by the gunman bear responsibility for the attack in which 26 people, including 20 children, were killed.

Following the mass trial of hundreds of suspected Boko Haram extremists before a court at the Kainji military base in central Niger state, the Ministry of...

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe is expected to rule on the issue of when New York should hold its party primaries, part of an ongoing Department of Justice lawsuit to force the state into complying with the MOVE Act, which governs timely access to military and overseas ballots.

In the motion filed in U.S. District Court, Senate Republicans also write the August primary would ensure a more orderly petitioning season, save the state money and allow military and overseas voters to cast their ballots in a timely fashion.

Mrs. Akporobi, a typist with the Delta State Judiciary attached to the Magistrate's Court, Oleh, was on her way to her daughter's wedding during weekend's environmental sanitation exercise when the soldier killed her at a military checkpoint in Jakpa Junction, Effurun.

Prior to these changes, educators lived in a vague legal world, at the mercy of a Supreme Court decision (the 1996 Virginia Military Institute [VMI] case, United States v. Virginia), which required an «exceedingly persuasive justification» of anyone wanting to set up single - sex schools or classes.

State Supreme Court Justice Francis A. Affronti ruled on Feb. 13 that, based on the legislative history and intent of the education law, the unprecedented board action conflicted with the law, which requires school boards to give access to military recruiters «on the same basis» as any other employment or college recruiters.

The Rochester, N.Y., school board violated state education law last December when it barred military recruiters from its campuses because of the armed forces» ban on homosexuals, a state court has ruled.

This case has shone a light on the Israeli State's practice of prosecuting children in military courts.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

Only, 62 involve civilian death penalties imposed in federal courts (mostly in states that have the death penalty) and another 6 involve death penalties imposed in military courts (mostly in states that allow the death penalty or abroad).

On the heels of three cases involving military members injured «off of the battlefield,» the United States Supreme Court passed the Feres Doctrine in 1950, making these individuals and their families unable to bring a claim against the federal government for such.

He has litigated cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States and internationally in the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay as a criminal defense lawyer.

For example, if China was sued for violating a utility patent on the Humvee design and a U.S. federal court found that it was a commercial activity of a state owned company rather than an act of the Chinese military, per se, the U.S. court could enter a judgment against China and the patent owned could collect it by seizing U.S. Treasury bonds owned by China.

As we reported, legal blogger Dwight Sullivan pointed out that the Court had gotten its facts wrong in stating that Congress had chosen not to make child rape a capital offense, when in reality, in 2006, Congress amended the Uniform Code of Military Justice to add child rape to the military death Military Justice to add child rape to the military death military death penalty.

In this decision, the first to explore the scope of the Article 2 ECHR «safeguarding» obligation in the context of military activities following the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the Susan Smith case, the Divisional Court rejected the contention that the safeguarding obligation imposed on the state a duty to protect soldiers from lack of -LSB-...]

Campaign Against Arms Trade v. Secretary of State for Trade (High Court): Junior Counsel for the Claimant in landmark challenge to the legality of continued licensing of arms and military equipment for export to Saudi Arabia on grounds that weapons may be used in serious violations of international humanitarian law.

As the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court made clear in relation to allegations of war crimes violations on the part of the United States in Iraq, the threshold of whether civilian casulaties are «clearly excessive» to the military advantage to be gained is a high one, the mere «death of civilians during an armed conflict, no matter how grave and regrettable, does not in itself constitute a war crime».

In the case of explosives the practical military experience of making and testing improvised explosives devices, (at times when such activity was authorised by the Secretary of State for Defence), having instructed others in the creation of such devices, the rehearsal of the use of such devices under circumstances parallel to those that defendants are accused, actual use of clandestine recipes, and also chemical expertise in the synthesis procedures used in explosive preparation, are all critical to being able to assist the court in such matters.

The Nuremberg Tribunal considered a number of factors relevant to its conclusion that the authors of particular prohibitions incur individual responsibility: the clear and unequivocal recognition of the rules of warfare in international law and State practice indicating an intention to criminalize the prohibition, including statements by government officials and international organizations, as well as punishment of violations by national courts and military tribunals (id., at 445 - 47, 467).

Federal law allows military retirement pay to be part of the property divided between spouses in divorces in state courts according to Florida law.

Following this, the majority of the court found in Korematsu v. United States, that the exclusion of those with Japanese ancestry from certain military zones (in this case, the West coast) was also constitutional.

It thus adopted the system of military common law applied by military tribunals so far as it should be recognized and deemed applicable by the courts, and as further defined and supplemented by the Hague Convention, to which the United States and the Axis powers were parties.

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While the military commission has not been formally authorized by statute, its jurisdiction as a war court has been upheld by the Supreme Court of the United Stcourt has been upheld by the Supreme Court of the United StCourt of the United States.

«The offences cognizable by military commissions may thus be classed as follows: (1) Crimes and statutory offences cognizable by State or U.S. courts, and which would properly be tried by such courts if open and acting; (2) Violations of the laws and usages of war cognizable by military tribunals only; (3) Breaches of military orders or regulations for which offenders are not legally triable by court - martial under the Articles of War.»

Some types of income can not be considered by the court in determining appropriate spousal support, including military disability pay awarded under 38 United States Code chapter 11.

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A trial lawyer, with over 15 years of courtroom experience; specializes in representing individuals and businesses in complex criminal and civil matters; litigated cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States and internationally in the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay as a criminal defense lawyer.

That law prohibits Arizona trial courts from considering certain military disability benefits: those awarded under title 38 United States Code chapter 11.

Troy A. Smith focuses his legal practice in the area of Criminal Defense in the State of New York, Federal Courts and all Military Courts.

The court unanimously held, in R (Bashir & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 397, that the Refugee Convention applies directly to the military base by virtue of the earlier extension of the Refugee Convention to the colony of Cyprus in 1957.

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When the United States Court of Military Commission Review considered Bahlul in 2011 it did not consider the ex post facto issue sustainable, as they considered the accused's conduct an offense under the law of armed conflict.

Khadr was not released after the charges were dropped in 2007, and the charges were soon reinstated by the United States Court of Military Commission Review, which held that the MCA commission had its own jurisdiction to determine lawful combat status.

The circumstances in which the court had exceptionally recognised the extra-territorial exercise of jurisdiction by a state included where the state «through the effective control of the relevant territory and its inhabitants abroad as a consequence of military occupation or through the consent, invitation or acquiescence of the government of that territory, exercises all or some of the public powers normally to be exercised by [the government of that territory].»

Military commissions organized during the late civil war, in a State not invaded and not engaged in rebellion, in which the Federal courts were open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their judicial functions, had no jurisdiction to try, convict, or sentence for any criminal offence, a citizen who was neither a resident of a rebellious State nor a prisoner of war, nor a person in the military or naval Military commissions organized during the late civil war, in a State not invaded and not engaged in rebellion, in which the Federal courts were open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their judicial functions, had no jurisdiction to try, convict, or sentence for any criminal offence, a citizen who was neither a resident of a rebellious State nor a prisoner of war, nor a person in the military or naval military or naval service.