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..... congress of 1864. in the case of the protector, [ footnote 10 ] the same rule was applied to the acts of congress of 1798 and 1803 fixing the time within which appeals shall be taken from the inferior federal tribunals to this court. the case before us was decided prior to the decision of this court in hanger v. abbott, with ..... city of new orleans and a small strip of adjacent territory lying along the mississippi river below that city was reclaimed from the dominion of the rebels by the military forces of the united states. even then, no court there, state or federal, was open to the plaintiffs. levy was there, but the other defendants were elsewhere in the ..... state whither the arms of the united states had not penetrated. but without pursuing the subject further, here was a period of more than a year to be deducted, according to the act of congress, from the time necessary under the state law to create a bar, and .....
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..... review provided by 204. yakus v. united states, supra. reversed. [ footnote 1 ] the declaration recited that the designated areas were the location of the armed forces of the united states or of war production industries, that the influx of people had caused an acute shortage of rental housing accommodations, that most of the ..... rents in those areas could have been frozen as of a given date, or reasonably precise standards could have been fixed, and administrative or other tribunals could have been given power according to the rules and standards prescribed to deal with special situations after hearing and findings and exposition of the reasons ..... be rejected. this brings me to a consideration of the appellees' principal contention -- namely, that, as applied to rent control, the emergency price control act is an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to an administrative officer. in approaching this question, it is hardly necessary to state the controlling principles, which have .....
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..... dollars for this, to-wit, that the said thomas robertson, then acting under authority from the said peter deveaux, on 20 april, 1807, at savannah, in the district aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, with force and arms entered into the house and premises of your petitioners at savannah aforesaid ..... the constitution itself either entertains apprehensions on this subject or views with such indulgence the possible fears and apprehensions of suitors that it has established national tribunals for the decision of controversies between aliens and a citizen or between citizens of different states. aliens or citizens of different states are not less ..... citizens of a different state from the opposite party, come within the spirit and terms of the jurisdiction conferred by the constitution of the national tribunals. such has been the universal understanding on the subject. repeatedly has this court decided causes between a corporation and an individual without feeling a doubt .....
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..... lawful or recognized governments, or to cases where redress can manifestly be had through public channels. the immunity of individuals from suits brought in foreign tribunals for acts done within their own states in the exercise of governmental authority, whether as civil officers or as military commanders, must necessarily extend to the agents ..... court of appeals for the second circuit syllabus hernandez was in command of a revolutionary army in venezuela when an engagement took place with the government forces which resulted in the defeat of the latter, and the occupation of bolivar by the former. underhill was living in bolivar, where he had ..... of governments ruling by paramount force as matter of fact. where a civil war prevails (that is, where the people of a country are divided into two hostile parties, who take up arms .....
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..... value of the property, and to be heard thereon. the legislature which determines the public purpose to be accomplished and designates the property to be taken, cannot act as such tribunal and fix the compensation, for that would be equivalent to allowing the legislature to take the property on its own terms. "the proceeding" to assess the ..... to interfere with and destroy the contract rights of the plaintiff is claimed, as already stated, under the power reserved to the state by its constitution, in force at the time, to alter or repeal the law pursuant to which the plaintiff was incorporated. such authority is also asserted from the public interest which the ..... subject it to the judgment of such authorities in a matter so vital to its interests. if the question were one of construction only, this argument might have force, but the dispute now is as to legislative power, not legislative action. the constitution of california, adopted in 1849, prohibited one legislature from bargaining away the .....
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..... of federal civil service positions and for backpay. it presents a substantial issue concerning the jurisdiction of the court of claims and the relief available in that tribunal. i the plaintiff respondents, herman r. testan and francis l. zarrilli, are trial attorneys employed in the office of counsel, defense personnel support center, ..... those of other trial attorneys in positions classified as gs-14 in the contract appeals division, office of the staff judge advocate, headquarters, air force logistics command, wright-patterson air force base, dayton, ohio, and that, under the principle of "equal pay for substantially equal work," prescribed in 5101(1)(a), [ footnote ..... defense supply agency, in philadelphia. they represent the government in certain matters that come before the armed services board of contract appeals of the department of defense. their positions are subject to the classification act, 5 u.s.c. 5101 et seq., and they are presently classified at civil service grade gs- .....
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..... so subject to the maine conditions, and warren continued to deny any need of 401 state certification. after appealing unsuccessfully to maine s administrative appeals tribunal, the board of environmental protection, warren filed this suit in the state s cumberland county superior court. that court rejected warren s argument that ..... the lone word discharge by itself, the complete statutory phrase discharge into the navigable waters entails the introduction of something into the waters ). the force of this argument escapes us, since one can easily refer to water being poured or discharged out of one place into another without implying that ..... (1994). footnote 2 no one disputes that the presumpscot river is a navigable water of the united states. footnote 3 the term pollutant is defined in the act to mean dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment .....
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..... between the transaction and the united kingdom. this was not accidental. the united kingdom ratified the ecsi on the same day that the 1978 act came into force, and the act was designed to give effect to the convention. the original bill followed closely the structure of the ecsi. its scope was, however, significantly ..... engagements of honour, binding, so far as engagements of honour can bind, the government which issues them, but are not contracts enforceable before the ordinary tribunals of any foreign government without the consent of the government of that country." 102.by the beginning of the 20th century only a few countries (including ..... affairs of argentina, dr drago, enunciated in 1902 what became known as the drago doctrine, namely that "the public debt [of an american nation] cannot occasion armed intervention by a european power": hackworth, digest of international law, vol 5 (1927), p 625. venezuelan bond claims were subsequently submitted to mixed claims commissions: borchard .....
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..... "the declaration upon each policy averred a total loss by the seizure and detention of one lewis vernet and other persons, pretending to act by the authority of the government of buenos ayres with force and arms." "the causes came on to be heard together by the court upon certain facts and statements agreed by the parties, the parties ..... carried by the captors to buenos ayres, where certain proceedings were had against her in the tribunals and under the sanction of the government of buenos ayres. she has never been restored to the defendants, but has been condemned for being engaged in the seal ..... of the vessels insured were bound on a sealing voyage, and proceeded to the falkland islands in pursuance thereof, and were there both seized by one lewis vernet, acting as governor of those islands under the appointment and authority of the government of buenos ayres. the harriet was seized on 30 july, 1831, and was subsequently .....
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..... ' means employment under or for the purposes of a government department or any officer or body exercising on behalf of the crown functions conferred by a statutory provision." regulations 13 (armed forces), 14 (house of lords staff), 15 (house of commons staff) and 16 (police service) make similar provision for the classes of service personnel, office holders or employees to which they ..... -time judges (recorders and deputy district judges) as full-time judges. these figures do not take account of remunerated chairmen and members of tribunals, the structure of which has been radically reformed by the tribunals courts and enforcement act 2007. submissions from the council of immigration judges show that in 2009 there were 145 full-time immigration judges and 440 part-time immigration .....
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