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In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101–649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide temporary protected status to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.
In the United States, a red flag law (named after the idiom red flag meaning “warning sign“; also known as a risk-based gun removal law, [1]) is a gun law that permits a state court to order the temporary seizure of firearms (and other items regarded as dangerous weapons, in some states) from a person who they believe may present a danger.
Such an order may later be overturned or vacated during the litigation; or it may become a final order and judgment, subject then to appeal. In the area of domestic violence, U.S. courts will routinely issue a temporary order of protection (TOP, or temporary protective order, TPO) to prevent any further violence or threat of violence.
(The Center Square) – As temporary protection status for legal Haitian immigrants continues to strain infrastructure in Springfield, Ohio, attorneys general across the country want the status ...
ATLANTA — The judge in the Georgia election interference case has granted a request from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office for an emergency protective order after parts of ...
The Constitution of the State of Georgia is the governing document of the U.S. State of Georgia. The constitution outlines the three branches of government in Georgia. The legislative branch is embodied in the bicameral General Assembly. The executive branch is headed by the Governor. The judicial branch is headed by the Supreme Court. Besides ...
The main functions of the department is the protection of public state and order as well as responding the violations and any other possible threat, their avoidance and prevention, protection of physical persons and legal entities from any illegal action, protection of the safety for the road traffic participants, supervision on observation the ...
A provisional measure of protection is the term that the International Court of Justice (ICJ, World Court) uses to describe a procedure "roughly equivalent" [1] to an interim order (which can be either a temporary restraining order or a temporary directive order) in national legal systems.