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... agency from receiving oil for resale or transfer for the ensuing year. The offender conceded the va... had fallen and a desire to avoid a diplomatic controversy should the seizure at issue have been ..., by letters patent under the great broad seal of the United States, and the signature of their P... attempted to spread their own official immunity to their subordinates by resisting actions of the ...
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§ 20.1. Separation of Powers Checks and Balances. § 20.1.1 Having Some Constitutional Government Structure in Place and Operating. § 20.1.1.1 Ensuring the Continuity of Government. § 20.1.1.2 The 1781 Articles of Confederation and Their Replacement by the 1789 Constitution. § 20.1.1.3 Amending the United States Constitution. § 20.1.2 Issues in the Election of Members of the Federal Government. § 20.1.2.1 Presidential Election. § 20.1.2.2 Congressional Elections. § 20.1.3 Impeachment Power of Congress. § 20.1.4 Immunities from Suit . § 20.1.4.1 Congressional Immunities: The Arrest and Speech or Debate Clauses. § 20.1.4.2 Executive Immunities. A. The President. B. Immunity for Lower Federal Officials. § 20.1.4.3 Judicial Immunity and Congressional Interference with the Courts. § 20.1.4.4 ...
... by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted." . Procedurally, the go..., as exists for military, diplomatic, or sensitive national security interests, and a g... waste to be processed at the city's transfer station before leaving the city. All solid waste h...
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... Hamdi in Afghanistan before transferring him to the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo ... must be in writing, under the hand and seal of the magistrate, and express the causes of the c...He has his agents in the form of diplomatic, consular and other officials. Secrecy in respect ... of our modern doctrine of qualified immunity. Cf. Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U. S. 232 , 247-2...
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... Act cases by obtaining court orders sealing the cases. Most of the cases filed regarding the w... contract states that their mission is diplomatic protection. So I can see if a prosecution were bro... his last day in Iraq granting complete immunity to American contractors and contract employees und...DELAHUNT: Correct. BOWEN: It was transferred by the CPA to the interim Iraqi government, and th...
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This Article examines the renegotiations of the four heavy oil projects in Venezuela's Orinoco oil belt by exploring two principal inquiries: 1. Relatively speaking, how successful were the foreign oil companies in engineering out the risk of their investments via long-term contracts? and 2. What do the oil companies' divergent choices about whether to pursue arbitration reveal about the value of provisions for international arbitration as an external legal check? The renegotiations of Association Agreement (AA) contracts in Venezuela demonstrate the complexity of attempts to mitigate the risks inherent in international business transactions. Reasonable minds may disagree about the relative success of the AA contracts as instruments of risk engineering. On the one hand, the ongoing dive...
... oil income out of the country via "transfer pricing," i.e., charging an artificially low sales... to the doctrine of state sovereign immunity, state-owned corporations, if they carry out the a... in this regard were measured, diplomatic, and perhaps reflective of an underlying aversion ... of energy, has offered this diplomatic seal: "PDVSA is very solvent, and it is one of those co...
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General review of the legal activities of the United Nations
Disarmament and related matters
(a) Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues
(b) The Biological and Chemical Conventions
(c) Conventional weapons issues
(d) Regional disarmament activities of the United Nations
(e) Terrorism and disarmament
(f) Outer space and disarmament
(g) Human rights, human security and disarmament
Other political and security questions
(a) Membership of the United Nations
(b) Legal aspects of peaceful uses of outer space
(c) United Nations peacekeepers
(d) Peacekeeping operations and other United Nations missions
(e) Action by Member States authorized by the United Nations Security Council
(f) Security Council Committees
Environmental, economic, social, cultural, human...
... all States to support the holding of a diplomatic conference to consider it. By the end of 2003, no ... of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, ... the Sub-Commission regretted that the immunity allowed to nationals of States parties or not part... as carrying the IMF Executive Board’s seal of approval. (e) Fund facilities. Access policy in...
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... on the legality of causing injury gives a seal of approval to injuring civilians during military ...(162) In the latter two cases, state immunity will block the claim. (163) As for the courts of t...POSNER, supra note 23, at 6 (regarding transfer payments that have a private cost and transactions.... (175.) U.N. Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishme...
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... in this Court; that the doctrine of the immunity of sovereign rights, when it has an extra-territor... he cannot have intended by this act, to transfer the decision of this great question of national po..., the sentence is not certified under the seal of any Court, or by any person who appears, or is ..., could have no minister or diplomatic agent there, to interpose for the protection of th...
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... President's order, al-Marri was then transferred to military custody and brought to the Naval Conso... which the United States has friendly diplomatic relations. The Government also does not seek to de... Court's admonition that "a hermetic sealing off of the three branches of Government from one a...51. Those who violate this "rule of immunity of non-combatants . . . become liable to the sever...
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Legal opinions of the Secretariat of the United Nations (issued or prepared by the Office of Legal Affairs)
Privileges and Immunities
Licensing fees levied against the United Nations for the allocation of radio frequencies—Sections 7 and 34 of the convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations (9 January 1995) 399
Entitlement to diplomatic privileges and immunities of a member of a permanent mission who does not have the nationality of the sending or receiving State— Articles 7 and 8 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (11 January 1995) 401
Question of who can determine whether the acts of United Nations officials are performed in their official capacity—Section 20 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Natio...
...148), immunity from legal process in respect of words spoken or w... papers or correspondence by courier or in sealed bags;. (e) The same facilities in respect of curre... VI, that funds allocated to UNDP and transferred to it by the World Bank thereunder “shall be sub...