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Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993), is a case that the U.S. Supreme Court decided on June 21, 1993. The Court ruled that the President's executive order requiring all aliens intercepted on the high seas to be repatriated was not limited by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 or Article 33 of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
The Supreme Court of Haiti interprets and expounds all congressional enactments brought to it in cases, and as such it interprets state law. It also has superseding power over all courts to examine departmental and federal statutes and executive actions, determining whether they conform to the country's Constitution.
On June 15, 2015 Casey Chadwick was stabbed to death in her Norwich, Connecticut home by Jean Jacques. Jacques had been convicted of a 1996 attempted murder and served 15 years in prison, was released from the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for deportation, but was never deported because the government of his nation of birth and citizenship, Haiti, refused to accept ...
The battle is rooted in a centuries-old thirst for power that has defined the country’s troubled history of political instability. ... on a justice from Haiti’s Supreme Court to step into the ...
(Reuters) -A Miami court on Monday sentenced Germine "Yonyon" Joly, a former leader of the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, to 35 years in prison for his role in laundering kidnapping ransoms ...
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The 1990–91 general election was heralded as the first democratic election in Haiti's history. [5] Aristide, a populist Roman Catholic priest, was the most controversial candidate of his party, the National Front for Change and Democracy (FCND). He was one of the only church figures to speak out against repression during the Duvalier years. [6]
The Supreme Court is back in session. At the end of September, the nine Supreme Court Justices reconvened to kick off the 2023-2024 term where they’re expected to hear cases concerning the ...