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The rights and obligations of a vassal are called vassalage, and the rights and obligations of a suzerain are called suzerainty. Suzerainty differs from sovereignty in that the dominant power allows tributary states to be technically independent but enjoy only limited self-rule.
Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that held that the "Siman Act", a 1919 Nebraska law prohibiting minority languages as both the subject and medium of instruction in schools, violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [1]
The Nebraska Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Nebraska. The court consists of a chief justice and six associate justices . Each justice is initially appointed by the governor of Nebraska ; using the Missouri Plan , each justice is then subject to a retention vote for additional six-year terms.
The laboratory was established in 1920 at the University of Nebraska as a central location for tractor testing. [1] The first tractor to be tested at the NTTL was a Waterloo Boy, which passed the test. [2] [3] All tractors sold in Nebraska had to be tested at the NTTL.
The Nebraska Tractor Test Law, passed in 1919 and administered by the university, requires performance testing on every tractor with forty horsepower or more sold in the state. The facility, initially established as the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory , was renamed for longtime chief engineer Lester F. Larsen when it was converted into a ...
The family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton held a press conference asking Gov. Bill Lee to examine the case for a potential pardon.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The man accused of killing a woman sleeping on a New York City subway car by setting her on fire after what prosecutors say was a night of heavy drinking pleaded not guilty to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wall Street see-sawed amid choppy trading on Thursday, reversing earlier gains as investors embarked on the new year facing the cross-currents of solid labor market data, a ...