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Judicial Interpretation of State Ethics Rules Under the McDade Amendment: Do Federal or State Courts Get the Last Word? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The McDade Amendment ( the Act ) is a federal law that requires federal prosecutors to abide by the state ethics rules of the jurisdiction in which they practice. The Act does not say, however, whether federal or state courts are definitive when it comes
Costello, Hopi
core   +1 more source

‘Keeping Ourselves Safe From the System’: Perinatal Care Model Considerations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families Intersecting With Child Protection

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is the priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and Australian governments, to provide infants with enriching environments in which they may thrive. This is particularly critical during the perinatal period. Yet, an increasing number of notifications and interventions by child protection authorities are occurring in ...
Neve Mucabel‐Bue   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

INTRODUCTION INTO THE CIVIL JURISDICTION OF NIGERIA: COURT SYSTEM, JURISDICTION, LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

open access: yesKAS African Law Study Library, 2018
This paper examines the civil jurisdiction of courts in Nigeria. The paper posits that civil jurisdiction is the power that the court has to enforce, redress, and protect the civil right of a private individual or government.
Theresa U. Akpoghome
doaj   +1 more source

“Inextricably Intertwined” Explicable at Last?: Rooker-Feldman Analysis After the Supreme Court’s Exxon Mobil Decision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The Supreme Court\u27s March 2005 decision in \u27Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp.\u27 substantially limited the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, under which lower federal courts largely lack jurisdiction to engage in what amounts to de facto ...
Baskauskas, Edward L.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
wiley   +1 more source

The European Convention of Human Rights and Migration at Sea: Reading the “Jurisdictional Threshold” of the Convention Under the Law of the Sea Paradigm

open access: yesGerman Law Journal, 2020
In all the applications before the ECtHR concerning migration at sea, a preliminary, yet seminal, question is whether the applicants were within the jurisdiction of the respondent State, in terms of Article 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights ...
Efthymios Papastavridis
doaj   +1 more source

Hogan vs. Gawker II: A Statutory Solution to Fraudulent Joinder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This Article will first review the intersection of federal jurisdiction and litigation strategy by examining the requirements for diversity jurisdiction in federal court as well as the circumstances that must be present to allow a defendant to remove a ...
Simon, Michelle S.
core   +1 more source

To Raise or Not to Raise: An Experimental Test of Community Support for Increasing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While research has identified a disconnect between the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and public perceptions of criminal culpability among young people, no study has examined how offender characteristics influence support for reform using an experimental design. To address this, this study presents the first experimental test of
Cameron T. Langfield   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The International Criminal Court's Exercise of Jurisdiction Over the Crime of Aggression – at Last … in Reach … Over Some

open access: yesGöttingen Journal of International Law, 2010
The first review conference to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, held in June 2010 in Kampala successfully concluded decades of negotiations over a statutory definition of the crime of aggression and its prosecution by a permanent ...
Astrid Reisinger Coracini
doaj   +1 more source

The Jurisdictional Difficulties of Defining Charter-School Teachers Unions Under Current Labor Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
As charter schools have flourished in form, they have also evolved in variety: parents can send their children to a trilingual immersion school or a school whose classes meet entirely online.
DeGory, Amelia A.
core   +1 more source

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