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2 days ago · The unfathomable scale of justice. The hulking Palace of Justice in Brussels, where the main law courts are based, looms like a latter-day Acropolis over the old city. But few people alive have seen it in its original glory: for the past four decades, it has been hidden under a shroud of scaffolding.
1 day ago · Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen.
2 days ago · The appointment of federal judges for United States federal courts is done via nomination by the President of the United States and confirmation by the United States Senate. The tables below provide the composition of all Article III courts which include the Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeals at the end of each four year ...
2 days ago · United States v. Rahimi. 2024. Reversed a lower court’s decision striking down a federal law prohibiting the owning of firearms by individuals under domestic-violence restraining orders, holding that the lower court had misunderstood the logic underlying the Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen ...
5 days ago · The scales of justice can no longer be balanced, and victims are now calling upon Parliament to intervene as a matter of urgency. In five brief extracts taken from letters to MPs, the issues now being put to Parliament are carefully set out, and the call for independent statutory regulation of church safeguarding is made.
2 days ago · The body subsequently established, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, was the precursor of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ), which was established by the League of Nations.
5 days ago · Federal Jury Instructions. There are two major encyclopedic sets of federal jury instructions, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (West) and Modern Federal Jury Instructions: Civil and Criminal (Lexis). These treatises are also accessible on Westlaw and Lexis respectively.
