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Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction
over
Federal Areas within the States — Report of the
Interdepartmental Committee for the Study of Jurisdiction over
Federal Areas within the States, 1956. Also available as text
files within a self-extracting
executable.
The following are large, may break them out later.
PDF
version, except last chapter — 8.7MB.
PDF
version, last chapter — 849KB.
Federal
Jurisdiction — Brief by attorney Larry Becraft.
Conflict of Criminal Laws,
Edward S. Stimson (1936) — Jurisdiction for a criminal offense
is limited to the territory where the offender is when the
offense is committed, not where the effects occur.
Jurisdiction
Boundary
Marking Act — Proposed legislation to mark boundaries
between federal and state jurisdictions.
A
Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the Jurisdiction of
the Courts of the United States, Peter Stephen Du
Ponceau (1824) — Discusses the various kinds of jurisdiction, in
locum, in personam, and in subjectam materiam,
and the limits of the jurisdictions of each kind of court.
The Jury System
Jury Reform — Problems
common to grand and trial juries everywhere.
U.S. Grand Jury Reform — This
local branch of subpages focuses on approaches to reform of the
Grand Jury system in the United States.
U.S. Trial Jury Reform — This
local branch of subpages focuses on approaches to reform of the
Trial Jury system in the United States.
If you
are called for jury duty in a criminal trial ...
The Jury
and Consensus Government in Mid-Eighteenth-Century America,
William E. Nelson — What the Founders understood the role of the
jury to be.
Brief on
jurisdiction. Contains some errors
— New version pending.
A Lehman,
Godfrey D., We the Jury : The Impact of Jurors on Our
Basic Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of History, 1997,
Prometheus. Landmark cases in which the jury played the starring
role.
A Lehman,
Godfrey D., The Ordeal of Edward Bushell, 1988,
Lexicon. A fictionalized rendition of Bushell's Case, in which
Edward Bushell, by holding out against intense pressure to
convict William Penn on a charge of preaching in a way not
authorized by the Church of England, established both the power
and role of the jury and the right of free exercise of religion.
Available from America's Legal Bookstore, 725 J St, Sacramento,
CA 95814, 916/441-0410.
VLaw must be argued in
presence of the jury. Video. 25MB MPEG, running time 2.5
minutes. Need a video utility like Quicktime
Player, RealPlayer or
Adobe Premiere.
Due Process
Judicial
Process — Doctrines and practices that affect judicial
decisionmaking.
Justiciability:
Standing
and Redressability
Jurisdiction & Due Process
Law Library
Intent of
the Fourteenth Amendment was to Protect All Rights,
Jon Roland