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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.
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.
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 ...
The 1990–91 general election was heralded as the first democratic election in Haiti's history. [5] Aristide, a populist Roman Catholic priest, was the most controversial candidate of his party, the National Front for Change and Democracy (FCND). He was one of the only church figures to speak out against repression during the Duvalier years. [6]
Joly admitted in a plea document early this year to being part of a plot to smuggle U.S. firearms to Haiti and helping transfer funds, some of which were proceeds from ransoms obtained by ...
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 ...
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.
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]