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Initiative statute. 8 – Passed – Criminal Justice. Initiative Statutes & Constitutional Amendment. 9 – Failed – Water Facilities Including A Peripheral Canal. 10 – Failed – Reapportionment. Congressional Districts. 11 – Failed – Reapportionment. Senate Districts. 12 – Failed – Reapportionment. Assembly Districts.
He was also found guilt of assault during a bank robbery “by the use of a dangerous weapon" based on the district court's determination that the unloaded gun was a "dangerous weapon" within the meaning of federal bank robbery statutes. [9] On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed McLaughlin's conviction. [8]
Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that California's retroactive extension of the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against minors was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. [2]
Article III of the United States Constitution permits federal courts to hear such cases, so long as the United States Congress passes a statute to that effect. However, when Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, which authorized the newly created federal courts to hear such cases, it initially chose not to allow the lower federal courts to possess federal question jurisdiction for fear ...
Section 8 stated the goal of making trade secret law uniform among states enacting the UTSA. Section 9 provided a short title to refer to the act and section 10 described the severability of the act. Sections 11 and 12 provided a date when the act took effect and the opportunity to explicitly list other acts to be repealed. [3]
Jacksonville's ordinance at the time of the defendants' arrests and conviction was the following: [2] Rogues and vagabonds, or dissolute persons who go about begging, common gamblers, persons who use juggling or unlawful games or plays, common drunkards, common night walkers, thieves, pilferers or pickpockets, traders in stolen property, lewd, wanton and lascivious persons, keepers of gambling ...
Truth in Lending Act; Long title: An Act to safeguard the consumer in connection with the utilization of credit by requiring full disclosure of the terms and conditions of finance charges in credit transactions or in offers to extend credit; by restricting the garnishment of wages; and by creating the National Commission on Consumer Finance to study and make recommendations on the need for ...
8), also known as the Statute of Proclamations, [1] was a law enacted by the English Reformation Parliament of Henry VIII. It permitted the King to rule by decree , ordering that "traditional" proclamations (that is, any unable to impose the death penalty or forfeiture of goods) [ clarification needed ] should be obeyed as "though they were ...