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7 Nov 2022, 1:12 pm by Howard M. Wasserman
Section 1983, enacted as Section 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, authorizes private suits against any person acting under color of state law who deprives the plaintiff of rights “secured by the Constitution and laws. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 3:13 pm
In one of the most significant sequels to the Supreme Court’s ruling last June on the rights of terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military, a federal judge decided Thursday that the ruling protects the rights of at least some of the detainees the U.S. is holding at Bagram air base outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 5:30 am by Robert Brammer
Elliot was subsequently elected to the House of Representatives to serve in the 42nd Congress (1871-1873), taking the seat that was once held by Representative Preston Brooks. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 3:32 am by SHG
The jury rejected these arguments under state law, although it hung under federal conspiracy law, the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, for reasons that are unclear. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 11:45 pm by Mike
Benjamin Franklin Butler drafted the Enforcement Act of 1871. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 9:30 am
 One question would be whether a state court would be an adequate forum--and that question is puzzling because under the line of precedent going back to Tarble's Case in 1871, there are limits on the ability of state courts to issue injunctions that run against federal officials. [read post]
21 Jun 2008, 3:16 pm
Klein, the opaque 1871 case that stands for some uncertain limitations on congressional control over federal law, federal courts, and federal jurisdiction.Klein, you may recall, arose out of a dispute over the disposition of Confederate property seized during the Civil War and the effect of presidential pardons. [read post]
12 Jan 2020, 9:05 pm by Jim Pauley
Forest Service after devastating wildfires like the 1871 Peshtigo fire and the 1910 Big Blowup, these policies called for immediate suppression of any and all fires on national forest lands. [read post]
3 Jul 2024, 4:36 am by SHG
Further, as Judge Nalbandian discussed in his opinion below, recent scholarship details that the 1871 Civil Rights Act included language abrogating common-law immunities that was, for unknown reasons, omitted from the first compilation of federal law. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 7:00 am by Jenny Gesley
The Criminal Code of the German Empire of 1871, on which Germany’s current criminal code is based, provided that insulting a foreign ruler was punishable with a term of imprisonment of one month to two years or with confinement in a fortress for a similar period. [read post]
2 Sep 2024, 10:30 am by Ambrosio Rodriguez
The law was passed back in 1871 after the Civil War in an effort to help combat race-based discrimination. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 12:41 pm by Ilya Somin
For this reason, the Supreme Court ruled [in a well-known 1871 case] that the government was liable under Wisconsin’s takings clause when it deliberately flooded a property owner’s land by building a dam that directed water toward it. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 10:00 am by Dan Ernst
., 80 U.S. 166 (1871), but what would they do with the recommendation that they make time to read and reflect on Gregory Alexander’s Commodity & Propriety (1997) or Stuart Banner’s American Property (2011)? [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 12:54 pm by Tim Springer
The company was originally founded in 1810 by local merchants as Hartford Fire Insurance Company and covered damages sustained in the fire which destroyed the New York Financial District in 1835, the Chicago Fire of 1871, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 11:19 am by Sheppard Mullin
By David Garcia and Leo Caseria On February 1, 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decided In re American Express Merchants' Litigation, No. 06-1871-cv, (2d Cir. [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 1:06 pm by Michael Lowe
  Open Carry Knife Law: Bowie Knives and Large Blade Knives Since 1871, it has been against the law in the State of Texas to carry a Bowie Knife or other large blade knives unless you were taking part in some kind of historical reenactment or an official ceremony. [read post]