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Obstruction of justice is an umbrella term covering a variety of specific crimes. [1] Black's Law Dictionary defines it as any "interference with the orderly administration of law and justice". [2] Obstruction has been categorized by various sources as a process crime, [3] a public-order crime, [4] [5] or a white-collar crime. [6]
In the law of the United States, diversity jurisdiction is a form of subject-matter jurisdiction that gives United States federal courts the power to hear lawsuits that do not involve a federal question. For a federal court to have diversity jurisdiction over a lawsuit, two conditions must be met.
Hertz Corp. v. Friend, 559 U.S. 77 (2010), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court supported the "nerve center" test for determining corporate citizenship in the context of the diversity jurisdiction statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1332. [1]
Process crimes are the offenses that "interfere with the procedures and administration of justice". [2] They are prosecuted because they are considered to harm the public interest in the functioning and integrity of the judicial system. [2] There is a broad range of process crimes, covered in the U.S. by a variety of federal and state laws.
Curtiss, 7 U.S. (3 Cranch) 267 (1806), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States first addressed the question of complete diversity for diversity jurisdiction. In a 158-word opinion the Court held that for federal diversity jurisdiction, under section 11 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 , no party on one side of a suit may be a ...
The U.S. Supreme Court issued several major decisions over the course of 2024.. Its rulings include those that have pushed back on the Biden administration's attempted change of Title IX ...
The Justice Department and other federal agencies are likely to start investigations and bring lawsuits over diversity, equity and inclusion policies as they argue that many of those practices ...
Corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding is a felony under U.S. federal law. It was enacted as part of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 in reaction to the Enron scandal , and closed a legal loophole on who could be charged with evidence tampering by defining the new crime very broadly.