Among the objections to its use raised by the Bush administration, which filed a brief in support of Unocal, is that the law merely defines jurisdiction for which court may hear a case.
The intention is to make them uniform, and to define their jurisdiction more clearly.
Principle 1 defines universal jurisdiction and Principle 2 the crimes to be considered -- piracy, slavery, war crimes, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, genocide and torture.
When asked to define the jurisdiction of his committee, Mr. Dingell liked to point at a photograph of the Earth taken from space.
258, 15 L.Ed.2d 194, the Court was confronted with an analogous choice between two interpretations of the statute defining the jurisdiction of three-judge district courts.
"When asked to define the jurisdiction of his committee, Mr. Dingell liked to point at a photograph of the Earth taken from space," Emma Brown recalls in The Post's obituary.
As months of negotiations neared completion over recent days, the language defining legal jurisdiction over American military personnel was devised to reassure Iraqis that they might claim the right to prosecute those who commit "grave, premeditated felonies" outside what is termed official "duty status".
The third paragraph of section 3 carefully defines the jurisdiction ceded by the state, and there is no permissible construction which would ignore this definite expression of intention in considering the effect upon jurisdiction of the consent given by the first paragraph.
In 1979 the OAS adopted the Statute of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, officially creating the Inter-American Court and defining its jurisdiction.
This Article provides a new interpretation of the origins of three central obsessions of federal-courts and constitutional-law scholarship: the question whether lower federal courts are constitutionally required; the relative powers of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the lower federal courts to define federal jurisdiction; and judicial supremacy.
