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THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS Of all the circuit histories, that of the Fourth Circuit is one of the richest in detail. Federal Judges in the mid-Atlantic South played an important role in defining national power during a tumultuously partisan era in American politics. These judges served a national judicial system in the throes of politically sensitive changes. They had worked at first under the provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789, then under the Federalist-inspired Judiciary Act of 1801 and finally under the Act of 1802 promoted by the triumphant Republicans. Circuit courts staffed by Supreme Court Justices and district judges, and briefly by separate circuit judges, rarely heard cases of enduring importance. Some, however, remain judicial landmarks. Among them is the great ...
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... ought not to be limited to cases of a Judiciary Nature. The right of expounding the Constitution i... to the validity of "citizen suit" provisions in the environmental laws, especially in light of ... In enacting the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress explicitly made provision for the exerci...
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... had eliminated the allegedly offensive provisions and that there was no indication that the West Vir... "extended any roving authority to the Judiciary to allow counsel fees as costs or otherwise whenev... several provisions in the Judiciary Act [of 1789], the conclusion appears to be clear that Congress...
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... under the Alien Tort statute (ATS), a 1789 law giving district courts "original jurisdiction ...In 1942, the House Committee on the Judiciary considered an early draft of the FTCA that would h...), it made hardly any changes to the provisions on aliens, including what became the ATS, see Cast...
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...The Judiciary Acts--and Beyond 1. The Judiciary Acts 2. The Bank... jurisdiction in the Judiciary Acts of 1789 and 1801 further demonstrate this judicial turn. P..., for example, the first and last provisions of Article IV. On the front side, the Full Faith a...
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... must always be accountable to the judiciary for a man's imprisonment: If the imprisonment cann... court jurisdiction, Act of September 24, 1789, c. 20, 14, 1 Stat. 81-82, habeas corpus was early... remedy whereof be it enacted: That the provisions and prohibicions of the said great Charter and oth...
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... jurisdiction of this court under the provisions of the eleventh section of the judiciary act of 17... 1762, chapter 9, section 2; see also act of 1789, chapter 57, section 3. There has been no decision...
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... The eleventh section of the Judiciary Act, which gives jurisdiction to the Circuit Court... the eleventh section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, and by the express provisions of the section is n...
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... of the relevant provision of the Judiciary Act of 1875 (now 28 U.S.C. 1331) and because of qu... a court of law, was invoked under the provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1875 which granted jurisdi... legislation that began September 24, 1789, and projects into the future. Article III, 2. cl...
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... a party to this suit, according to the provisions of 955 of the Revised Statutes of the United State... principle, 955, preceded by 31 of the judiciary act of 1789, was enacted, and provisions like that...