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common-law courts in a civil-law system scalia
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... and the constitutional "construction" that courts engage in when they create doctrinal tests to impl..., Professor Barnett concludes that Justice Scalia--who allows for departures from the original under... Scalia, Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Inter...
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... check" inherent in the mixed English system, whereby the king's power to declare war was balan.... (32.) See, e.g., Antonin Scalia, Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role...
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This article examines the federal government's growing use of 18 USC § 1346 to prosecute public company executives for breaching their fiduciary duties. Section 1346 is a controversial but under-examined statute making it a felony to engage in a scheme "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Although enacted by Congress over twenty years ago, the Supreme Court repeatedly declined to review the statute, until now. The questions before the Supreme Court are of particular interest to public company executives and their professional advisors. Traditionally, Delaware law has governed the content and enforcement of executives' legal duties, largely protecting public company fiduciaries from civil liability. Now, with the emergence of honest services fraud as a weapon ...
... media executive may have Justice Antonin Scalia to thank for his good fortune. Over the past two d... sharp disagreements among the circuit courts over its proper scope, the Supreme Court had decli... as cheaply as possible has produced a system of fiduciary duties practically incapable of civil...
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... be read to strip from it, and all federal courts, jurisdiction to consider petitioners' habeas appl... the outset, had no Bill of Rights; in the system the Framers conceived, the writ has a centrality t...J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA, THOMAS, and ALITO, JJ., joined. SCALIA, J., filed...
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..., reliance, and order in the court system. And yet, there are a host of reasons that could bbe put forward as to why the courts, and the Supreme Court specifically, should adhere... past two decades has been Justice Antonin Scalia, a position he has staked out in a plethora of opi...
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...What Justice Scalia, for example, finds to praise in the common law tr... judge and jury and between common law courts and those of equity. (13) It also denoted a certai... of their settlement and Blackstone's systematic formulation of the British common law in the middl...
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... the Supreme Court has in fact given state courts significant freedom to misinterpret sister-state l... that created the lower federal court system. This section, also known as the Rules of Decision...Justice Scalia stated, without argument, (116) that "[t]o constit...
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... on foreign law is proper, (2) and Justices Scalia and Breyer even went so far as to debate the issue... follows, Posner and Sunstein argue, that courts may be wise to rely on the majority view of foreig... seem[ed] to make France suited to a system of absolute unity.." (84) He believed that a syste...
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... "Congress sought to 'interpose the federal courts between the States and the people, as guardians of... (2002) (describing California state habeas system and comparing it to other states). We discuss the ...L. REV. . 877 (1996). But see Antonin Scalia, Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role...
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... that, as a matter of comity, federal courts should normally abstain from intervening in pendin..., are best served if the military justice system acts without regular interference from civilian co...SCALIA, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS a...
