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The Supreme Court of Texas is the court of last resort for civil matters (including juvenile delinquency cases, which are categorized as civil under the Texas Family Code) in the U.S. state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is the court of last resort in criminal matters.
Texas has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km 2), and with some 31 million residents as of 2024, [5] it is the second-largest state by both area and population. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as an independent republic. [10]
Texas, No. 22-58, 599 U.S. ___ (2023) The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ( IIRAIRA or IIRIRA ), [ 2 ] [ 3 ] was a law enacted as division C of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, made major changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
Canadian civil servant, frontier teacher, land surveyor, and soldier [12] Caroline Anthonypillai: 1908–2009: 100: Ceylonese/Sri Lankan political activist and trade unionist; wife of S. C. C. Anthony Pillai. [13] Frank Pierpoint Appleby: 1913–2015: 101: Canadian soldier and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1971 ...
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the most populous country in the world and the seventh-largest by area.Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; [k] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the ...
The Droit civil du Québec is the primary component of Quebec's private law and is codified in the Civil Code of Quebec. [191] Public law in Quebec is largely derived from the common law tradition. [192] Quebec constitutional law governs the rules surrounding the Quebec government, the Parliament of Quebec and Quebec's courts.
Hungry Moscow: Scarcity and Urban Society in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921. New York: Peter Lang. [114] Brovkin, V. N. (1994). Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918–1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ———. (1997). The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and ...