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..... "2. the benefit of the present provision may not, however, be claimed by a refugee whom there are reasonable grounds for regarding as a danger to the security of the country in which he is, or who, having been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community ..... paragraph (1) shall not apply to any alien if the attorney general determines that- "(d) there are reasonable grounds for regarding the alien as a danger to the security of the united states." before its amendment in 1965, 243(h), 66 stat. 214, read as follows: "the attorney general is authorized to withhold deportation of any ..... had implications beyond this nation's borders. the "commonsense notion" that congress was looking inwards-perfectly valid in a case involving the federal tort claims act, such as smith,-cannot be reasonably applied to the refugee act of 1980. in this regard, the majority's dictum that the presumption has "special force" when we construe "statutory provisions .....
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..... concept of territorial sovereignty is so deep-seated, any state may resent the refusal of the courts of another sovereign to accord validity to acts within its territorial borders. piecemeal dispositions of this sort involving the probability of affront to another state could seriously interfere with negotiations being carried on by the executive ..... thereafter, subsequent to the united states government's reduction of the cuban sugar quota, the cuban government expropriated the corporation's property and rights. to secure consent for shipment of the sugar, the broker, by a new contract, agreed to make payment for the sugar to a cuban instrumentality which thereafter ..... part of the united states, justifying the taking of countermeasures by cuba. the law gave the cuban president and prime minister discretionary power to nationalize by forced expropriation property or enterprises in which american nationals had an interest. [ footnote 3 ] although page 376 u. s. 402 a system of compensation was .....
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..... front tract bordered, and where there were similarly situated tracts, so that each claimant could not obtain a quantity equal to his front grant, it was made the duty of the surveyor to divide the vacant land between the several claimants in such manner as to him might appear most equitable. to gratify preemptions claims secured by the act, no township ..... surveyed before the time for making entries expired. by the seventh section of the act of may 11, 1820, the fifth section of the act of march 3, 1811, was renewed, and continued in force until may 11, 1822; and by the act of june 15, 1832, the act of 1811 was again renewed for three years, with some slight amendments; and by ..... the act of february 24, 1835, the time was further extended to june 15, 1836. .....
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..... california, 291 u. s. 242 . [ footnote 22 ] rainier national park v. martin, 18 f.supp. 481, 488. [ footnote 23 ] cf. electric bond & share co. v. securities & exchange comm'n, 303 u. s. 419 . [ footnote 24 ] art. 20, 22, of the california constitution provides that the state board of equalization "shall have the power, in ..... different legislation, this adjustment was desirable. the states of the union and the national government may make mutually satisfactory arrangements as to jurisdiction of territory within their borders, and thus, in a most effective way, cooperatively adjust problems flowing from our dual system of government. [ footnote 11 ] jurisdiction obtained by consent or ..... granted the united states title to the "cleft" or "gorge," known as yosemite valley and the mariposa big tree grove. as the act of march 31, 1891, was then in force, see note 6 exclusive jurisdiction, with the exception of right to administer criminal laws and serve civil process, passed to the united states, .....
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..... the board of inquiry was transmitted, and the secretary held: "the evidence shows that the appellant declined to give exact information as to the manner in which he secured admission to this country, although he swears that he arrived here about ten days ago. he admits that he is an anarchist and an advocate of anarchistic principles, ..... by the department of the treasury over the immigration of aliens into the united states were transferred to the department of commerce and labor established by the act, to take effect and be in force the first day of july, 1903. page 194 u. s. 289 mr. chief justice fuller, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion ..... the page 194 u. s. 291 united states can, as a matter of public policy, by congressional enactment, forbid aliens or classes of aliens from coming within their borders, and expel aliens or classes of aliens from their territory, and can, in order to make effectual such decree of exclusion or expulsion, devolve the power and duty .....
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..... involve more than a contention that the supremacy clause requires that a federal statute be given effect over conflicting state law; that the social security act is not an act of congress securing either "equal rights" or "civil rights" as those terms are used in 1343; and that those terms limit the grant of federal ..... such explicit evidence as rev.stat. 1891, which provided: "the constitution and all laws of the united states which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect . . . in every territory hereafter organized as elsewhere within the united states." despite the fact that no reference to territories of the united states ..... included provisions imposing criminal and civil penalties for conspiracies to deprive individuals of constitutional rights, and authorizing the president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and use armed forces to suppress "insurrection." 2-5, 17 stat. 13; see cong.globe, 42d cong., 1st sess., app. 220 (1871) (remarks of sen. thurman). see .....
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..... [ footnote 4 ] the court went on to say that, in any event, 18 u.s.c. 241 is not an available sanction to protect rights secured by that title because 207(b) of the 1964 act, 42 u.s.c. 2000a-6(b) (1964 ed.), specifies that the remedies provided in title ii itself are page 383 u. s. 751 to ..... political interests are likewise served by free movement. surely these interests can be impeded by private vigilantes as well as by state action. although this argument is not without force, i do not think it is particularly persuasive. there is a difference in power between states and private groups so great that analogies between the two tend to be ..... create rights under the equal protection clause even though the participation of the state was peripheral, or its action was only one of several cooperative page 383 u. s. 756 forces leading to the constitutional violation. see, e.g., shelley v. kraemer, 334 u. s. 1 ; pennsylvania v. board of trusts, 353 u. s. 230 ; burton v. wilmington parking .....
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..... may be regarded as, in legal effect, one instrument, designed to evade or defeat the provisions of the statute of illinois known as the "voluntary assignment act," in force july 1, 1877. the first section of that statute provides "that in all cases of voluntary assignments hereafter made for the benefit of creditor or creditors, ..... liabilities within the provisions of the assignment shall be paid pro rata from the asserts thereof." the main object of this legislation is manifest. it is to secure equality of right among the creditors of a debtor who makes a voluntary assignment of his property. it annuls every provision in any assignment giving a preference ..... executed to his mother a note, accompanied by a warrant of attorney to confess judgment, and by a conveyance and transfer of certain real and personal property as collateral security for the note. subsequently, september 4, 1879, pursuant to that warrant of attorney, judgment was entered against alexander white, jr., for $43,807.50, in .....
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..... limited invasion[s]" of individual privacy interests, camara v. municipal court, supra, at 387 u. s. 537 , many border searches carry grave potential for "arbitrary and oppressive interference by enforcement officials with the privacy and personal security of individuals," united states v. martinez-fuerte, 428 u. s. 543 , 428 u. s. 554 (1976); ..... ward, and be unable to leave the united states"). the government argues that giving a traveler the option of leaving the country, rather than being forced to undergo lengthy custodial criminal investigations based on mere suspicion, "is an unsatisfactory alternative because it would allow the suspect to escape apprehension and return ..... are within the supervisory power of the courts themselves. such a right as just compensation for the taking of private property may be vindicated after the act in terms of money." "but an illegal search and seizure usually is a single incident, perpetrated by surprise, conducted in haste, kept purposely beyond the .....
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..... at the request of the iraqi government, and in accordance with united nations (u. n.) security council resolutions. pursuant to the u. n. mandate, mnf i forces detain individuals alleged to have committed hostile or warlike acts in iraq, pending investigation and prosecution in iraqi courts under iraqi law. these consolidated cases concern ..... exchange v. mcfaddon , 7 cranch 116, 136 (1812). see wilson, supra , at 529 ( a sovereign nation has exclusive jurisdiction to punish offenses against its laws committed within its borders, unless it expressly or impliedly consents to surrender its jurisdiction ); reid v. covert , 354 u. s. 1 , 15, n. 29 (1957) (opinion of black, j ..... a japanese court. 354 u. s., at 529. nevertheless, in light of the background principle that japan had a sovereign interest in prosecuting crimes committed within its borders, this court found no constitutional or statutory impediment to the united states s waiver of its jurisdiction under the agreement. id. , at 530. * * * .....
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