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  2. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources ...

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    Case history; Prior: Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc. v. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm'n, 547 F.2d 633 (D.C. Cir. 1976); cert. granted, 429 U.S. 1090 (1977).: Holding; While federal agencies are free to grant additional procedural rights in the exercise of their discretion, reviewing courts are generally not free to impose them if the agencies have not chosen to grant them.

  3. Nationwide injunction - Wikipedia

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    Courts did have the equitable power to enjoin defendants with regard to the plaintiff, but typically not the world at large. [3]: 420 In cases where multiple parties had a common claim against the same defendant, the British chancellor sometimes offered a remedy known as a "bill of peace."

  4. Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council ...

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    Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that set forth the legal test used when U.S. federal courts must defer to a government agency's interpretation of a law or statute. [1]

  5. Long-arm jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    the defendant is domiciled or resident in the province; the defendant carries on business in the province; the tort was committed in the province; and; a contract connected with the dispute was made in the province. It was also held that a Canadian court cannot decline to exercise its jurisdiction unless the defendant invokes forum non ...

  6. National power - Wikipedia

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    National power is defined as the sum of all resources available to a nation in the pursuit of national objectives. [1] Assessing the national power of political entities was already a matter of relevance during the classical antiquity , the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and today.

  7. Substantive due process - Wikipedia

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    Substantive due process is a principle in United States constitutional law that allows courts to establish and protect substantive laws and certain fundamental rights from government interference, even if they are unenumerated elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution.

  8. Criminal jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Criminal jurisdiction is a term used in constitutional law and public law to describe the power of courts to hear a case brought by a state accusing a defendant of the commission of a crime. It is relevant in three distinct situations: to regulate the relationship between states, or between one state and another;

  9. Smith v. Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979), was a Supreme Court case holding that the installation and use of a pen register by the police to obtain information on a suspect's telephone calls was not a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and hence no search warrant was required.