Sentences with phrase «habeas corpus law»

For the past decade, he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati, where he has taught habeas corpus law and a First Amendment seminar.

Not exact matches

I can not get out of my head a 1984 - style image of Labour MPs, after an agreement with the LibDems, saying «We've always supported international law and habeas corpus and have always opposed ID cards».

I have proposed a Prevention of Terrorism Bill, which would unwind the application of the Act and give us a proper terrorism law, ruling out the application of the HRA 1998 while insisting on habeas corpus, due process and fair trial on one hand, and guiding judicial interpretation of provisions during a public emergency on the other.

This was in reference to anti-terrorism laws and in particular the extension to pre-trial detention, that is perceived by many to be an infringement of habeas corpus established in Magna Carta.

2) We will review other ways to vacate a conviction under California law, such as habeas corpus and withdrawal for good cause.

But when it comes to the Guantanamo defendants now filing for habeas corpus in United States courts, the tables are turned, with Department of Justice lawyers struggling against an army of elite law firms and law professors who represent the detainees, according to the Wall Street Journal's editorial page:

During her third year of law school, Maria participated in the University of Georgia's Appellate Litigation Program, where she helped draft a brief for habeas corpus relief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and participated in oral argument for that matter.

They should be stripped of ephemera not necessary to the bulk of family law disputes, such as rules on interpleader, receivers, creditors» remedies and writs of mandamus, certiorari and habeas corpus.

Wise felt that such a concept was already present in habeas corpus case law which permits courts to issue writs requiring that a person be brought before a judge by his or her captor in order to rule on that prisoners detainment.

The English common law of habeas corpus mandates the deprivation of liberty is prima face unlawful.

Constitutional cases on habeas corpus challenges to bad laws and illegal restraint by the government

Application for leave to file a petition for writs of habeas corpus and prohibition in this Court challenging the jurisdiction and legal authority of a military commission which convicted applicant of a violation of the law of war and sentenced him to be hanged.

We have also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada addressing various prison law issues including the writ of habeas corpus, appropriate sentencing credit for pre-trial custody, the interpretation of legal grounds for pre-trial detention and the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences.

While at Columbia Law School, Sarah's efforts in a federal habeas corpus case helped secure the release and exoneration of her client.

Circuit courts have jurisdiction over all civil cases at law over $ 2,500 with limited exceptions; all civil cases in equity; proceedings in habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto, prohibition, and certiorari; and all felonies and misdemeanors.

Before that I was an assistant federal defender handling capital habeas corpus cases and an adjunct law professor.

... Thus, we must look to the common law surrounding the historic writ of habeas corpus to ascertain the breadth of the writ's reach.

These days, since there is now a right to appeal a criminal conviction under state law or federal statute (but not the U.S. Constitution), a writ of habeas corpus is only brought when direct appeals of a conviction have been exhausted, often several years after the original conviction (which makes a writ of habeas corpus only useful for convictions involving long sentences of incarceration).

Not surprisingly, animals have never been considered persons for the purposes of habeas corpus relief, nor have they been explicitly considered as persons or entities capable of asserting rights for the purpose of state or federal law.

Other than a direct appeal from a state supreme court to the U.S. Supreme Court, or a direct appeal from a state supreme court of a collateral attack on a state conviction, a federal habeas corpus action is the only chance someone convicted of a crime has to show a federal government official that state officials did not comply with federal law and the U.S. Constitution in their criminal case.

Habeas corpus has a symbolically central place in the law because it was the primary means by which a private individual could contest government authority over a person in a court of law where the citizen was in theory at least on an equal footing with the state.

I am regularly required by law, for example, to affirm deportation orders and deny petitions for writ of habeas corpus in instances in which it appears to me that the result is unjust and in which I believe the individuals are being deprived of due process of law.

The topics covered include justiciability, congressional authority to define and limit federal court jurisdiction, federal common law and implied rights of action, the application of state law in federal courts under the Erie doctrine, civil rights actions and immunities of state officials and governments, and habeas corpus.

I attach such significance to those motions (they are called «motions» rather than petitions for habeas corpus) that I do them myself and without hardly any assistance from a law clerk.