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It held (1) that the individual respondents had been sued only as Registrars, and that, having, under Alabama law, effectively resigned their offices, they were not suable in their official capacities; (2) that the Board of Registrars was not a suable legal entity; and (3) that the Civil Rights Act of 1957 did not authorize this action against ...
Alleging a course of racially discriminatory practices calculated to deprive Negro citizens of their voting rights, the United States brought an action for declaratory and injunctive relief under the Civil Rights Act of 1957 against the Board of Registrars of an Alabama county, the individual members thereof and the State of Alabama.
Jul 24, 1996 · A special law designated the Curragh as an area in which the military had the power to imprison a prostitute in a special hospital until she was cured, or rather, it was thought she was cured...
Sep 7, 2024 · Alabama claims, maritime grievances of the United States against Great Britain, accumulated during and after the American Civil War (1861–65). The claims are significant in international law for furthering the use of arbitration to settle disputes peacefully and for delineating certain.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 31, 2021 · The arbitration’s origins, however, lie as much in realpolitik as in idealism. Its conduct highlighted as much the flaws in international arbitration as its virtues. It was, above all, a political and diplomatic experiment that almost resulted in the British government’s disintegration in June 1872.
By the early twentieth century the Curragh army camp in County Kildare was Britain’s premier military base in Ireland. Ulster unionist opposition to the passage of Home Rule in 1912 was heightened by the support it received from elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
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United States v. Alabama , 325 U.S. . 602 (1960), was a Supreme Court case in which the court held that, after the Civil Rights Act of 1960 was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 6, 1960, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama now had jurisdiction to hear a challenge against Alabama for violations of the Civil ...
