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  • Article I Court

    Description of Article i Court Resources See Also legislative court under COURT Article Iii Court Federal Courts

  • Article I Court

    Description of Article i Court Resources See Also legislative court under COURT Article Iii Court Federal Courts

  • Courts

    Introduction Courts, branch of government established to administer the civil and criminal law. The term court is also applied to the international tribunals intended to provide for the resolution at law of controversies among governments, namely, the Permanent Court of International […]

  • Central American Court of Justice

    Central American Court of Justice (CACJ) This entry includes background information and links to the Agreement on the Statute of the Central American Court of Justice, the Ordinance of Procedures and Regulations, and resolutions of the court. Description Since the demise of the Spanish […]

  • Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements

    Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: The United States signed the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements (“COCA”) in 2009. this world legal […]

  • Removal From State Court of Case Related to an Arbitration

    Removal From State Court of Case Related to an Arbitration Removal From State Court of Case Related to an Arbitration in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On February 7, 2011 in the case Infuturia […]

  • Federal Appeal

    Description of Federal Appeal Resources See Also Cases Federal Courts

  • Special Court

    Special Court Special Courts in the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces This United States special court was established under Article I of the Constitution of this country pursuant to act of May 5, 1950, as amended (10 U.S.C. 867). Subject only to certiorari review by the Supreme Court of the United…

  • Lower Court

    Lower Court Lower Courts in the United States Article III of the United States Constitution declares, in section 1, that the judicial power of the United States shall be invested in one Supreme Court and in “such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” The Supreme Court has held…

  • Court of International Trade

    Court of International Trade in relation with International Trade In the context of trade organizations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Court of International Trade: A US Federal Court (formerly the Court of Tariff Appeals) that hears appeals from proceedings […]

  • Court Opinions Publication

    Publication of Court Opinions in Case Law-ResearchAbout the Publication of Court Opinions: Forms of Publication There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia.National Reporter System There is more information about this subjet […]

  • Court Systems

    Court Systems Court Hierarchy in the Legal System “Court level or hierarchy defines to a great degree the extent to which a decision by one court will have a binding effect on another court. The federal court system, for instance, is based on a three-tiered structure, in which the United States District Courts are the…

  • Wikipedia in the Courtroom

    Wikipedia in the Courtroom Is Wikipedia a reference in the courtroom? In “The Citation of Wikipedia in American Judicial Opinions” , LEE F. PEOPLES, from Oklahoma City University School of Law (LSN Law & Society: The Legal Profession Vol. 3 No. 30, 10/14/2008) says that Wikipedia has been cited almost 300 times in American judicial…

  • List of International Court of Justice Cases

    List of International Court of Justice Cases International Court of Justice Cases The Court has a twofold jurisdiction or function: Contentious: to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States. In Contentious proceedings, when a dispute is brought before the Court by a unilateral application filed by one State against…

  • Extradition in Federal Countries

    Extradition in Federal Countries “The political structure of countries, such as the federal structure of the United States, can bring about an additional difficulty in extradition proceedings, inasmuch as the governments of foreign nations have official relations only with federal governments, not with the governments of a country’s constituent states. It is not always clear…