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Laws applied. U.S. Const. amend. IV. Safford Unified School District v. Redding, 557 U.S. 364 (2009), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a strip search of a middle school student by school officials violated the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
The magistrate judge's seat is not a separate court; the authority that a magistrate judge exercises is the jurisdiction of the district court itself, delegated to the magistrate judge by the district judges of the court under governing statutory authority, local rules of court, or court orders. Rather than fixing the duties of magistrate ...
The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judicial and executive powers. In other parts of the world, such as China, magistrate is a word applied to a ...
Bow Street Runners. The Bow Street Runners were the law enforcement officers of the Bow Street Magistrates' Court in the City of Westminster. They have been called London 's first professional police force. The force originally numbered six men and was founded in 1749 by magistrate Henry Fielding, who was also well known as an author. [1]
The high school principal seized the banner and suspended Frederick because the banner was perceived to advocate the use of illegal drugs. The Supreme Court held that a principal may, consistent with the First Amendment, restrict student speech at a school event, when that speech is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use.
Supreme Court. The Washington Supreme Court is the state supreme court of Washington. It is the highest court in the state and is based in the Temple of Justice at the Washington State Capitol campus in the state capital of Olympia. Almost all the cases that the Court hears are appeals from the decisions of the Washington Court of Appeals.
Karoline Mehalchick (born 1976) [2] is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania since 2024. She previously served as the chief magistrate judge of the same court from 2021 to 2024 as well as a magistrate judge of the same court from 2013 to 2024.
Mar. 5—THOMASVILLE- Qualifying for the upcoming May election began on Monday, March 4, where 13 individuals qualified for a range of positions. The positions of sheriff, Magistrate Court judge ...