Jurisdiction

important courts and jurisdictions. The judicial system offered three types of courts to solve many different problems. The first type of court was the church court. The Church court or Ecclesiastical court is “a tribunal set up by religious authorities to deal with disputes among clerics or with spiritual matters involving either clerics or laymen” (“Ecclesiastical Court”). The church court was considered the most powerful with a big jurisdiction. “Church Courts had jurisdiction over all…

many changes during this period. He manipulated the people into supporting him to take power and control of the church to benefit his own personal desires. Although the Roman church hadn’t caused any significant problems, King Henry VIII claimed jurisdiction over the English church. His personal desires and his ability to weave them with the common man’s perceived welfare; had a profound impact on the religious landscape of England. Firstly, the Roman church had not caused any significant…

demanded to include “an exemption from ICC jurisdiction for any peacekeepers provided by states not party to the ICC Statute” in the renewal of the mandate peacekeeping operations from the Security Council. When a revelation in 2004 weakened the U.S. argument, the U.S. withdrew some of the nation’s…

piers, bulkheads, wharves, and artificial structures affixed to Ingleside’s shore and therefore The City of Ingleside believed part of the land was within their jurisdiction. However, due to the balance of power between the state government and the judicial branch, the court of appeals dismissed the case because they felt they lacked jurisdiction declaring the issue as a political question. In this dispute, The City of Ingleside appealed and the case was granted a petition…

that “The Basic Law authorizes both judges and legislative groups, as well as state government, to petition the court directly” (226). It has three types of jurisdiction being concrete, abstract, and constitutional complaints. The jurisdiction on abstract deals with questions when no actual case is present. The concept of concret jurisdiction deals with actual cases that raises questions and is similar to the United State Supreme Court and how it function. The constitutional complaints is…

criminal matters (excluding juvenile proceedings) and the other courts have blurred lines of jurisdiction. The Texas district courts are general jurisdiction trial courts but share jurisdiction with County Courts and some Justice of the Peace cases. County courts have exclusive jurisdiction over misdemeanors (offenses involving jail time), and concurrent jurisdiction over civil cases, and appellate jurisdiction over JP and municipal court cases. Municipal courts relate to crimes of public safety…

Victims have stated that the justice system on tribal lands is often times too slow, or has their hands tied, to serve any real purpose. Often times the courts take too long to prosecute a case because it has to be passed onto federal authorities and a federal prosecutor, the victims will drop the case because the courts haven’t done enough. Sexual assault is a common crime on tribal lands, but prosecuting the perpetrator can take months or years. “Brent Leonhard, an attorney with the Office…

Plaintiffs on his website. Issues: 1. Does the court have jurisdiction over the Defendant? 2. Should Grant’s Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) be granted? 3. Does the Plaintiff state a claim…

Over half the tribal courts in Alaska have a tribal court system. The type of cases they can address are child related like, juvenile delinquency, juvenile status offences, adoption, child support enforcement, custody and protection. The courts also handle domestic violence, probate, and alcohol violations. Tribal counts cover environmental regulation, cultural protection, internal governmental disputes, property damage, property disputes, trespass, and misdemeanor offences. Lastly they have a…

There are many requirements for offenders on probation and parole. For one, the offender must have someone supervising over them until their time is up. With the offenders having a probation officer or parole officer, they must obey the rules or else whatever they do could have them back in jail. The offenders must make sure they stay out of any trouble, have a decent job, a safe place to stay, and what places they can and cannot go. The courts are obligated to add discretionary. Whatever crime…