Mandatory Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court: Abolition of Civil Priorities : Jurors Rights : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2406, H.R. 4395, and H.R. 4396 ... June 22, 1982 |
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Page 255 - Sadly, even after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Page 143 - ... the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Supreme Court Building, Washington, DC, 20544.
Page 86 - Except as to cases the court considers of greater importance, proceedings before the district court, as authorized by this subsection, and appeals therefrom, take precedence on the docket over all cases and shall be assigned for hearing and trial or for argument at the earliest practicable date and expedited in every way.
Page 188 - Upon such filing the court shall cause notice thereof to be served upon such person, and thereupon shall have jurisdiction of the proceeding and of the question determined therein, and shall have power to grant such temporary relief or restraining order as it deems just and proper...
Page 34 - ... the highest court of a State in which a decision could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of the United States ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of any State, on the ground of its being...
Page 318 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity ; or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption. specially set up or claimed by either party under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission...
Page 359 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 120 - ... (2) By appeal by a party relying on a State statute held by a court of appeals to be invalid as repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States, but such appeal shall preclude review by writ of certiorari at the instance of such appellant, and the review on appeal shall be restricted to the Federal questions presented...
Page 234 - ... or has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or so far sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, as to call for an exercise of this Court's power of supervision.
Page 141 - Burchill at page 86 of the printed hearing before the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 95th Cong., 1st Sess.