But it will be much more potent if the courts act as the last line of defence against the corrosiveness of arbitrary government.
The American Public Policy Alliance, a non-partisan organization that advocates for the Constitutionality of U.S. and state laws and public policies, has drafted the American Laws for American Courts Act (ALAC) to prevent enforcement of foreign legal decisions that violate Constitutional protections and liberties.
The American Laws for American Courts Act -- already passed in three states and never challenged in court -- is progressing through legislatures in several states with two-year or year-round sessions, and is either scheduled to be introduced or under consideration in over 25 additional states for the coming legislative session.
Everyone agrees that the court must complement, not replace, national courts and should act only where national courts have collapsed, lost all credibility or blatantly refuse to act themselves.
But the Lord Chief Justice's principal private secretary Laurene McAlpine has said courts must act without external influence.
The American courts can act with almost geological slowness when they want.
Judge Treacy said the courts will act if a public authority puts a child where they will be exposed to the risk of serious harm or abuse.
However, Laurene McAlpine said courts must act without external influence.
The court would act when national courts could not, or were seen to be ineffective.
Courts have also ruled that act-of-war clauses do not apply where risk can be foreseen when the contract was signed.
The Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act would give courts more power to award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party.
Boies also contended that the Norris-LaGuardia Act (the Act) prevents courts from issuing injunctions to block lockouts or strikes arising from labor disputes.
Wyeth, where plaintiffs are trying to gut the National Vaccine Injury Act by allowing courts to decide in every individual case whether a vaccine-related injury could have been avoided.
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Mr Gowda denies a witch-hunt, and says that activist courts have forced the police to act, regardless of the government's inclination.
And again, people who tried to do this when they were looking at lower court cases -- lower courts who heard the Affordable Care Act -- there were a couple of judges, who were conservative judges, who were appointed by Republican Presidents who asked very difficult, tough questions of Department of Justice lawyers.
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But the FTC has bleak track record in the courts when attempting to push the FTC Act beyond the accepted limits of the Sherman Act.
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Although the killing occurred in Colombia, the lawsuit argues that U.S. federal laws -- including the Alien Tort Statute and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act -- give American courts jurisdiction in the case.
It has taken the courts, not the political system, to act.
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The Alien Tort Statute, enacted as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, permits federal courts to recognize private claims in for a limited number of international law violations.
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The latest, Section 58 of the Crime and Disorder Act (1998), enables courts to order the compulsory supervision of sex offenders for up to ten years after release from prison.
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After all, they say, many of the worst elements of the Glass-Steagall act have been disabled by the courts or by regulators such as the Federal Reserve reinterpreting what commercial banks are allowed to do.
Judges on the lower federal courts who passed judgment on the Affordable Care Act, as well as both the challengers and defenders of the law in the Justice Department, focused their arguments on Congress' authority to regulate interstate commerce.
But critics say the act makes it harder for British courts to extradite criminals and has also led the current controversies over prisoners being able to vote and sex offenders having the right to appeal to get their name removed from the sex offenders register.
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The decisions are part of a broad trend of media deregulation running through the courts and federal agencies since Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
The narrowest ruling might be to uphold the lower courts -- striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 -- by deciding that the parties defending each do not have standing in the cases.
State court enforcement of FINRA fines might well, therefore, entail interpretation of the Exchange Act notwithstanding the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal courts.
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Yet there is no assurance that the Defense of Marriage Act will not itself be struck down by activist courts.
We are keeping under constant review whether the courts have the sentencing powers they need and we'll act if necessary.
Courts will still need to rule, legislators vote, regulators act.
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