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The arrival of Christian missionaries in the early 19th century altered the cultural landscape of the kingdom. The hula was viewed by them as evil and corrupt, and it was eventually banned from public performances by Queen consort Ka'ahumanu. [17] Nevertheless, the hula continued to be practiced in private settings.
Oneida Indian Nation of New York v. County of Oneida , 414 U.S. 661 (1974), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court concerning aboriginal title in the United States . The original suit in this matter was the first modern-day Native American land claim litigated in the federal court system rather than before the Indian Claims ...
This was the second time the Supreme Court had granted certiorari to the Oneida's land claim. Over a decade earlier, in Oneida Indian Nation of New York v.County of Oneida (1974), the Supreme Court had allowed the same suit to proceed by unanimously holding that there was federal subject-matter jurisdiction to hear the claim. [2]
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The New York State Court of Appeals is the state's highest court. In civil cases, appeals are taken almost exclusively from decisions of the Appellate Divisions. In criminal cases, depending on the type of case and the part of the state in which it arose, appeals can be heard from decisions of the Appellate Division, the Appellate Term, and the County Court.
Carolyn Walker-Diallo is an American judge. She was the first Muslim elected as judge in the State of New York. In 2015, Walker-Diallo was elected to the New York City Civil Court, representing the 7th Municipal Court District, which encompasses Brownsville, Brooklyn, East New York, Cypress Hills and Bushwick.
The Civil Court of the City of New York is a civil court of the New York State Unified Court System in New York City that decides lawsuits involving claims for damages up to $25,000 and includes a small claims part (small claims court) for cases involving amounts up to $10,000 as well as a housing part (housing court) for landlord-tenant matters, and also handles other civil matters referred ...
As late as 1869, a majority of the state's voters cast ballots in favor of retaining property qualifications that kept New York's polls closed to many blacks. African-American men did not obtain equal voting rights in New York until ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, in 1870." [25]