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The Supreme Court of Haiti interprets and expounds all congressional enactments brought to it in cases, and as such it interprets state law. It also has superseding power over all courts to examine departmental and federal statutes and executive actions, determining whether they conform to the country's Constitution.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A Haiti court has thrown out a prior summons order against three members of the Caribbean nation's ruling transitional presidential council who have been accused of ...
Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993), is a case that the U.S. Supreme Court decided on June 21, 1993. The Court ruled that the President's executive order requiring all aliens intercepted on the high seas to be repatriated was not limited by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 or Article 33 of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
(Reuters) -A Miami court on Monday sentenced Germine "Yonyon" Joly, a former leader of the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, to 35 years in prison for his role in laundering kidnapping ransoms ...
Carl Dorelien, was a colonel in the Haitian military during the 1991–1994 coup, in charge of discipline and personnel matters. Following the restoration of Haiti’s democracy, Dorelien fled to the United States. [15] In 2003, he was deported to Haiti because of his human rights record, and was taken into custody for his absentia conviction ...
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On May 3, 2005, the Supreme Court overturned the verdicts given to fifteen of the former members of the FRAPH, [7] none of whom were imprisoned at the time. The testimonies the commission based its findings on would have been more structured if the commission had been able to gain access to the U.S. government information regarding the FRAPH. [8]
Kenya’s High Court, which held a hearing on the deployment Thursday, has set a hearing on the case for Jan. 26, dimming hopes for supporters that forces would be on the ground in Haiti in early ...