Though cases here can be expensive, our federal court system usually works very well and reasonably quickly.
The Obama administration said it had no choice but to prosecute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the federal court system.
The problem with cases like this is that the invasion of privacy is unavoidably increased by taking your case into the federal court system.
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The federal court system, long on tradition and resistant to change, needs to join the overwhelming majority of state courts which allow video coverage of judicial proceedings.
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That judgment, the biggest change in the standard for admissibility of scientific evidence in the federal court system for 70 years, was initially used in civil cases.
In addition, recent federal court rulings limited damage settlements in the case, relegating plaintiffs to class-action remedies in the federal court system rather than by jury in the state courts.
The Justice Department's recent plea agreement with Ali Saleh al-Marri should be of grave concern to those who believe the Obama administration will vigorously prosecute terrorists in the federal court system.
The court may not be elected, but its members are nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress, which also has considerable power over the funding and operation of the federal court system.
Maybe the time has come for the Justices of the highest court in the land to voluntarily agree to participate in the same Code of Ethics which govern the rest of the federal court system.
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Professor ANNE JOSEPH (University of California-Berkeley): Wal-Mart will face exceptional pressure from the stock market and from others to settle and not to actually have it play out to completion with an actual damage award coming out of the federal court system.
Legislation passed two years ago that was designed to prevent class-action abuse has reduced the number of those types of cases filed in state courts, but it also seems to have placed unforeseen strains on the federal court system because the law was drafted so poorly, experts say.
This argument is often articulated with the preface that since Islam and sharia are not guided by a hierarchical jurisprudence like the Catholic Church or even like our own federal court system with a Supreme Court, any effort at outlawing it will suffer from over breadth and capture perfectly non-threatening "interpretations" of sharia.
The federal court appellate system will decide both cases.
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Business has less riding on this case than it did before 2005, when Congress passed the Class Action Fairness Act making it much easier to pull class actions out of state court into the federal system.
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But patent attorney Gene Quinn outright accuses me of lying in his response to my recent piece on how the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals wrecked the patent system.
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With 50 separate state governments and court hierarchies beneath the federal level, the American legal system is more complex than that of any other nation, and the country has, by far, more lawyers than any other.
Testimony from such witnesses has long been viewed with skepticism by those experienced in the criminal justice system, but the federal appellate courts, including the U. S. Supreme Court, have never declared such sweetheart deals to be what they logically appear to be: a species of witness bribery or threats.
German politicians are constrained by a complex federal system, a sceptical public, messy coalition politics and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that the general may amend the constitution, provided he does not change the parliamentary and federal system of government or tinker with the independence of the judiciary.
According to court documents, the FBI's Combined DNA Index System or CODIS a coordinated system of federal, state and local databases of DNA profiles contains more than 10 million criminal profiles and 1.1 million arrestee profiles.
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