Sentences with phrase «proper federal jurisdiction»

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The FDCPA is a federal statute, so even a first - year lawyer would understand that federal jurisdiction is proper.

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 service.