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Extradition is an act where one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, over to their law enforcement. It is a cooperative law enforcement process between the two jurisdictions and depends on the arrangements made between them. Besides the legal aspects of the process, extradition also involves the physical transfer of custody of the person being extradited to the legal authority of the requesting jurisdiction.
The Nova Scotia Supreme Court is a superior court in the province of Nova Scotia.
In the United States, child support is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an "obligor" to an "obligee" for the financial care and support of children of a relationship or a marriage. The laws governing this kind of obligation vary dramatically state-by-state and tribe-by-tribe among Native Americans. Each individual state and federally recognized tribe is responsible for developing its own guidelines for determining child support.
A Century Farm or Centennial Farm is a farm or ranch in the United States or Canada that has been officially recognized by a regional program documenting the farm has been continuously owned by a single family for 100 years or more. Some regions also have Sesquicentennial Farm and Bicentennial Farm programs.
As established and defined by the Montana Constitution, the government of the State of Montana is composed of three branches, the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative. The powers of initiative and referendum are reserved for the citizens of Montana.
The Attorney General of Iowa is the chief legal officer of the State of Iowa, United States.
Helen M. Meyer is an American lawyer and former judge from the state of Minnesota. She most recently served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Southern Illinois University School of Law is one of three public law schools in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located in Carbondale, Illinois, it is the only law school in the southern region of Illinois.
Ranked-choice voting (RCV), also known as instant-runoff voting (IRV), is used for state primary, congressional, and presidential elections in Maine and for local elections in more than 20 US cities including San Francisco, California; Oakland, California; Berkeley, California; San Leandro, California; Takoma Park, Maryland; St. Paul, Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Portland, Maine; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and St. Louis Park, Minnesota. New York City is by far the largest voting population in the US that has opted for RCV, pending implementation in 2021. RCV is commonly used for student leadership and other non-governmental elections. It has been proposed for presidential elections and will be used in four states in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Dr. Abdel-Moniem ibn Ali El-Ganayni is an Egyptian-born American nuclear physicist, former prison Imam, and an active member of the Pittsburgh Muslim community. In 2007 El-Ganayni's U.S. security clearance was revoked, and he subsequently lost his job as a senior scientist at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory.
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Zalita v. Bush is a writ of habeas corpus filed on behalf of Guantanamo captive Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita before United States District Court judge Ricardo M. Urbina. On January 2, 2008 the Project to Enforce the Geneva Conventions named Zalita v. Bush on a list of "notable GTMO and related cases".
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The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) is a US non-profit international human rights organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1998, CJA represents survivors of torture and other grave human rights abuses in cases against individual rights violators before U.S. and Spanish courts. CJA has pioneered the use of civil litigation in the United States as a means of redress for survivors from around the world. As of 2016, it has a staff of 12 employees, headed by executive director Dixon Osburn.
The Court of Appeal of Alberta is a Canadian appellate court.
Cynthia Baldwin is a former justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. She also served as the first general counsel for the Pennsylvania State University, and in that capacity, she gained some national recognition during the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
The Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order (EIKO),, also known as the Executive Headquarters of Imam's Directive or simply Setad, is a parastatal in the Islamic Republic of Iran, under direct control of the Supreme Leader of Iran. It was created from thousands of properties confiscated in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. A Reuters investigation found that the organization built "its empire on the systematic seizure of thousands of properties belonging to ordinary Iranians", also seizing property from members of religious minorities, business people and Iranians living abroad; at times falsely claiming that the properties were abandoned.
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- ↑ US State Department "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-09. Retrieved 2007-02-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)(Giving a general description).
- ↑ US State Department "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-09. Retrieved 2007-02-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)(US as an example).
- ↑ US State Department "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-09. Retrieved 2007-02-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)(US practice as an example).
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