Jurisdiction

“What is the Grounding for the Law’s Jurisdiction Over Us?” Imagine a house fire starting and your neighbor having to watch all of his memories, possessions, and his house burn down because there are no laws existing to provide services and responders. There would be no taxes collected to fund fire departments, police departments or hospitals. There would be no help. This anarchy would exist because the citizens would not accept the law’s jurisdiction over them. To have peace and prosperity we…

Now that jurisdiction has been defined, the bases of jurisdiction must be analyzed. International legal rules limit that ability to apply its statutes extraterritorially, however, there are two determinations for extraterritorial jurisdiction. The first is whether a domestic law exists that covers the offensive act, and the second is whether a sovereign state may, under international law, prescribe such conduct extraterritorially. There are five bases of jurisdiction that states use for…

Fatal Flaws On the Face Of The Petition and in Testimony The lack of jurisdiction is apparent on the face of the petition. On forms DV-100 pg. 1 and DV-110 pg. 1, the petitioner describes the respondent as an “ex-friend”. (exhibit, exhibit). An “ex-friend”, someone with whom one has a platonic relationship, does not satisfy the standard of a domestic relationship set forth in Family Code section 6211.1 Consider a similar case, the petitioner and appellant, hereon Oriola, appealed the dismissal…

Juvenile Jurisdiction and Typical Juvenile Cases Jurisdiction is the granted ability to exert authority over an individual or entity. It can also outline the geographical area in which one's authority is recognized. As it relates to juvenile courts, the jurisdiction varies based on legislation passed by each state, as the United States has no federal juvenile court system. Typically, once jurisdiction has been established, the juvenile court system takes cases ranging from juvenile status…

naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. However, it is not of my interest to speak at detail of citizenship by rights or citizenship by status. For now I will speak regarding the facts of how an undocumented immigrant can change his immigration…

vessel, which on board carried Italian Armed Forced marines, and the St Anthony an Indian Fishing boat. As a result, between these two vessels, two fishermen of the St Anthony were killed. The question continues as to which state has the claim to jurisdiction. The main goal of making use of an alternative dispute resolution between the two nations is to be able to maintain the relationship between India and Italy. Background Facts: On February 2012, an Italian Merchant Vessel Enrica Lexie…

more varied than the structure of the federal court system. The most common state court system comes with four levels or tiers of court. These are called court of limited jurisdiction, courts of general jurisdiction, intermediate appellate courts and a final appellate court or court of last resort. Courts of limited jurisdiction are those courts that deal with less than less serious offenses and civil cases. These courts have many names which include: justice of the peace courts, magistrate…

involving felony prosecution. They also have the ability to exercise jurisdiction over juvenile and district court cases. Circuit courts hear civil cases when the amount of damages exceeds $10000. Alabama’s has three appellate courts. Court of Civil Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Alabama. These courts have discretionary jurisdiction. The Court of Civil Appeals has five judges, they have jurisdiction in cases involving more than $50000 in damages. This court also…

investigation, federal detectives may also be involved. However though there is overlap of jurisdictions and responsibilities these agencies cooperate with each other. While the local police, in this case would carry out the issue if it is specific to the county, the state police would be involved if the head post office is at some other place and it has made a FIR and also in case the culprit is beyond the jurisdiction of local police. On the same basis the other agencies like forensic experts…

courts have jurisdiction which gives them the authority to hear and decide cases. These jurisdictions are composed of the original jurisdiction, which has the authority to hear the case when it is first brought to the courts. The appellate jurisdiction which reviews the cases for errors of the law and then there’s general jurisdiction that has the authority to hear any types of cases. The special jurisdiction courts have the authority to hear only specific types of cases. Personal jurisdiction…