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Also, since the jerkball's e-mail trail leads to eastern Europe, the case stands to highlight the freedom online criminals have to operate beyond U.S. jurisdiction.
In 1992, the court ruled that a federal judge's jurisdiction can be terminated before the schools have achieved full compliance with a desegregation order.
As there were few firms large enough to cross state lines into federal jurisdiction in the 18 th century, the nation's founders generally assumed the states would govern the economy.
It is flanked by a building that protected aristocratic debtors (known as the Abbey Lairds) from arrest and certain imprisonment; civil authorities had no jurisdiction within the Abbey grounds and could not enter to arrest them.
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.