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Titolo: | Laws, nominations and legal issues [[electronic resource] /] / Howard D. Stern and Thomas W. O'Grady, editors |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
Disciplina: | 349.73 |
Soggetto topico: | Law - United States |
Legislation - United States | |
Altri autori: | O'GradyThomas W SternHoward D |
Note generali: | Contains edited, excerpted and augmented editions of CRS reports. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""LAWS, NOMINATIONS AND LEGAL ISSUES ""; ""LAWS, NOMINATIONS AND LEGAL ISSUES ""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE ""; ""SHARING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION: THE CONGRESSIONAL ROLE ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""THE LEGACY OF FISA ""; ""RECOGNIZING THE NEED TO SHARE INFORMATION ""; ""INITIAL EFFORTS TO LEGISLATE ""; ""AFTER 9/11, CONGRESS TEARS DOWN THE WALL ""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""CRIMINALIZING UNLAWFUL PRESENCE: SELECTED ISSUES ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""PROPOSALS TO CRIMINALIZE UNLAWFUL PRESENCE ""; ""SELECTED ISSUES ""; ""REFERENCES "" |
""FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES: BACKGROUND, LEGAL ANALYSIS, AND POLICY OPTIONS """"ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""SUPREME COURT CASES ""; ""United States v. Booker ""; ""PENAL POLICY ""; ""Indeterminate Sentencing ""; ""Determinate Sentencing ""; ""THE SENTENCING REFORM ACT OF 1984 ""; ""SENTENCING GUIDELINES ""; ""Departures from the Guidelines ""; ""POSSIBLE POLICY CONSIDERATION ""; ""REFERENCES""; ""ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA): USING PRIOR JUVENILE ADJUDICATIONS FOR SENTENCE ENHANCEMENTS ""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""PRIOR CONVICTION EXCEPTION UNDER ALMENDAREZ-TORRES "" | |
""TWO INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PRIOR CONVICTION EXCEPTION AS APPLIED TO PRIOR JUVENILE ADJUDICATIONS """"REFERENCES ""; ""SPEED OF PRESIDENTIAL AND SENATE ACTIONS ON SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS, 1900-2009 ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""RECENT NOMINATIONS ACTIVITY ""; ""The Souter Departure Announcement and the Sotomayor Nomination Announcement""; ""Activity during 2005-2006 ""; ""The Roberts Nomination ""; ""The Miers Nomination ""; ""The Auito Nomination ""; ""MEASURING THE PACE OF SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS ""; ""Official and Unofficial Timetables ""; ""Objectives of This Chapter "" | |
""HOW SUPREME COURT VACANCIES OCCUR """"Death of a Sitting Justice ""; ""Retirement or Resignation of a Sitting Justice ""; ""Nomination of a Sitting Justice to Another Position ""; ""Controversial, Withdrawn, and Rejected Nominations ""; ""DATA PRESENTATION ""; ""Date of Actual or Prospective Vacancy ""; ""Announcement-of-Nominee Date ""; ""Use of Medians to Summarize Intervals ""; ""The Duration of the Nomination-and-Confirmation Process ""; ""Changes Since 1981 ""; ""Factors Influencing the Speed of the Process ""; ""How the Vacancy Occurs ""; ""The Senate's Schedule "" | |
""Committee Involvement and Institutional Customs """"Controversial Nominations ""; ""DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS ""; ""Implications for the Sotomayor Nomination ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS, 1789 - 2009: ACTIONS BY THE SENATE, THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AND THE PRESIDENT ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""DESCRIPTION OF REPORT�S CONTENTS ""; ""FINDINGS FROM THE NOMINATIONS TABLE ""; ""Number of Nominations and Nominees ""; ""Presidents Who Made the Nominations ""; ""Date That Nominations Were Received in Senate "" | |
""Referral of Nominations to Senate Judiciary Committee "" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Laws, nominations and legal issues |
ISBN: | 1-61942-155-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807740903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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