Sentences with phrase «only general jurisdiction»

The circuit courts are West Virginia's only general jurisdiction trial courts of record.

Circuit courts are West Virginia's only general jurisdiction trial courts of record.

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Meanwhile, Cuomo is looking to make the PA board do his bidding: In April, he got the Legislature's backing for a new inspector general, appointed by and answerable only to him, with jurisdiction over the Port Authority and all downstate transportation projects.

(ii) is complementary to a general sales tax, but only if a deduction is allowable under this paragraph with respect to items sold at retail in the taxing jurisdiction which are similar to such item.

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The electricity sector's share of greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario in 2012 was only about 9 percent of total emissions, compared to the transportation sector with 34 percent and the industrial sector with 30 percent (Ontario, Auditor General 2015), meaning that further environmental gains in the electricity sector are inherently limited.4 In any event, this impact needs to be compared to other alternatives, such as further enhancing transmission connections and expanding power purchase agreements with neighbouring jurisdictions, in particular Quebec and Manitoba, which have substantial clean hydroelectric resources.

Not only was it of questionable jurisdiction, the NNPC lacking the power constitutionally speaking, to control the movement of ships in Nigerian waters, but the sheer lack of explanation or information provided by the NNPC for the ban resulted in general uncertainty and speculation as to the reasons for it.

Many jurisdictions follow the general rule that an artificial person, such as an LLC or a corporation may only «appear» in court by authorized legal counsel.

The case law indicates that the merging of the Small Claims Court into the Ontario Court (General Division) in the 1990s did not invest the provincially appointed court with s. 96 powers (Domtar Commercial Roofing and Insulation v. Exeter Roofing & Sheet Metal Co., 1993 CanLII 5563 (ON SC)-RRB-, and it is likely that only federal legislation could do so since s. 96 courts had jurisdiction over copyright matters in 1867.

this is the necessary result of the Court's decision, unless, in the alternative, that would be to imply that, in exercising such jurisdiction, there is only one kind of general court - martial, but there are two or more kinds of military commission, with wholly different procedures and with the result that «the commander in the field» will not be free to determine whether general court - martial or military commission shall be used as the circumstances may dictate, but must govern his choice by the kind of procedure he wishes to have employed.

It exercises the discretionary power of a State Government in authorizing the establishment of a court in which the judges hold their appointments for a term of years only, and not during good behaviour, and it exercises the power of the General Government in investing that [p446] court with admiralty jurisdiction, over which the General Government had exclusive jurisdiction in the Territory.

The Court of Appeal disagreed with the tenants and the Attorney General, finding that s. 31 of the Sechelt Indian Band Self - Government Act «can only have been intended to preserve the character of the Sechelt Lands as reserve lands subject to federal jurisdiction» and that the lands continued, as they were before self - government, as lands reserved for Indians under s. 91 (24) of the Constitution.

Of all the courts which the United States may, under their general powers, constitute, one only, the Supreme Court, possesses jurisdiction derived immediately from the Constitution and of which the legislative power can not deprive it.

This is because Belgium argues that Swiss Courts are under an obligation to stay proceedings brought in that country not only as a result of the Lugano Convention but also because this result is dictated by the rules of general international law relating to jurisdiction.

The United States Supreme Court has made clear twice within the last five years that a state court may assert general jurisdiction over a foreign corporation under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment «only when the corporation's affiliations with the State in which suit is brought are so constant and pervasive «as to render it essentially at home in the forum State.»»

There appeared to be general support for the proposition that a competition authority should impose remedies that have extraterritorial application only to the extent necessary to remedy harm to competition within the enforcing jurisdiction.