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The Constitution of Haiti [1] stipulates that Supreme Court justices are appointed by the president from a list submitted by the senate of three persons per court seat. [2] It is unclear whether they are appointed for 10 years (Art. 174 says so) or for life (Art. 177 says so).
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.
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
List of Supreme Court cases could refer to: List of Victorian Supreme Court cases, Australia; List of Supreme Court of Canada cases; List of Irish Supreme Court cases; List of Supreme Court of Kenya cases; List of cases of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; List of cases of the Supreme Court of New Zealand; List of Tasmanian Supreme Court cases ...
For Law of Haiti, many legal documents are available in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) for Haiti in the Law Digital Collection. As explained on the Haitian Law Digital Collection page in the Digital Library of the Caribbean, the collection "includes historic through current Haitian law documents and related international documents.
Haiti accepts compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. There is a Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation), assisted by local and civil courts at a communal level. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is in line to succeed the President in case of death or resignation, according to the 1987 Constitution of Haiti.
A coup d'état in Haiti on 29 February 2004, following several weeks of conflict, resulted in the removal of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. On 5 February, a rebel group, called the National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti, took control of Haiti's fourth-largest city, Gonaïves.
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 ...