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Example sentences for: jurisdiction

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Since the Constitution only permitted the national government to regulate "commerce," whole areas of economic life were outside federal jurisdiction.
Terrorism came under the jurisdiction of at least 14 different committees in the House alone, and budget and oversight functions in the House and Senate concerning terrorism were also splintered badly among committees.
Federal antitrust suits could not exist until Congress enacted a federal antitrust law in 1890 and, even after, the question of jurisdiction remained.
Therefore, the United States should work with the international community to develop laws and an international legal regime with universal jurisdiction to enable the capture, interdiction, and prosecution of such smugglers by any state in the world where they do not disclose their activities.
The group market provisions of HIPAA create concurrent jurisdiction for the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury and include rules relating to preexisting conditions exclusions, special enrollment rights, and prohibition of discrimination against individuals based on health statusrelated factors.