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  2. Title 28 of the United States Code - Wikipedia

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    Title 28 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) is the portion of the United States Code (federal statutory law) that governs the federal judicial system. It is divided into six parts: Part I: Organization of Courts

  3. Federal question jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Supreme Court Case Selections Act of 1988 - Wikipedia

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    Long title: An Act to improve the administration of justice by providing greater discretion to the Supreme Court in selecting the cases it will review, and for other purposes. Enacted by: the 100th United States Congress: Citations; Public law: 100-352: Statutes at Large: 102 Stat. 662: Codification; Titles amended: 28 U.S.C.: Judiciary and ...

  5. Browder v. Gayle - Wikipedia

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    Browder v. Gayle, 142 F. Supp. 707 (1956), [1] was a landmark federal court case that ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional. The case was heard before a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on the segregation of Montgomery and Alabama state buses.

  6. Tennessee Attorney General - Wikipedia

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    Unlike any other state, the Tennessee Attorney General is an officer of the judicial branch, not the executive branch. Article VI Section 5 of the Tennessee Constitution provides for the appointment of the Attorney General by the justices of the Supreme Court for a term of 8 years. [ 4 ]

  7. Sovereign immunity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    If the state or local government entities receive federal funding for whatever purpose, they cannot claim sovereign immunity if they are sued in federal court for discrimination. The United States Code, Title 42, Section 2000d-7 explicitly says this. The 2001 Supreme Court decision of Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v.

  8. Whiteville Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    Whiteville Correctional Facility is a privately operated prison for men located in Whiteville, Hardeman County, Tennessee. The facility opened in 2002 and has a capacity of 1536 medium-security inmates. [1] [2] As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four private prisons. [3]

  9. Tennessee Department of Correction - Wikipedia

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    As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four private prisons, all run by Corrections Corporation of America. [7] According to the state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, which authorizes only one private prison for state inmates, [8] Tennessee contracts directly with CCA for inmates held at South Central Correctional Facility. For ...