An ex post facto law is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed...
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Stogner v. California (category 2003 in United States case law)
sexual offenses committed against minors was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. In 1994, the California State Legislature enacted a specific statute...
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Data Protection Regulation is an ex-ante regulation) A priori List of Latin phrases Ex post facto law Dictionary.com. "ex ante". Dictionary.com. Retrieved...
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Bill of attainder (category Common law)
Attainder; Ex Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing...
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Calder v. Bull (category United States ex post facto case law)
important points of constitutional law. First, the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution applies to criminal laws that have at least one of four...
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5–4 decision, the Supreme Court held that the law was both a bill of attainder and an ex post facto law, both forbidden by Article I, Section 9 of the...
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registration deals with civil laws, not punishment, the Court ruled 6-3 that it is not an unconstitutional ex post facto law. Justices John Paul Stevens...
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Copyright Term Extension Act (redirect from Mickey mouse law)
Anti-copyright Copyright Copyleft Digital Millennium Copyright Act Ex post facto law Free Culture (2004 book) Intellectual property List of countries'...
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Polyukhovich v Commonwealth (category Ex post facto case law)
the fact that a law operated ex post facto did not automatically make the law a bill of attainder. In addition, an ex post facto law of the kind under...
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Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act, 1978 (category 1978 in Indian law)
statute of Karnataka. This law which was introduced in 1978 is retrospective in nature and is considered an ex post facto law. Currently over 10000 cases...
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against peace" and other war-related charges continued in the following years. Law No. 291 of 1947, on the basis of which these trials were conducted, ruled...
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Criminal investigation (redirect from Means (law))
matters of fact, not matters of judgment and law." In determining the course of investigation, many law enforcement organizations use three "indicators...
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In United States law, an Alford plea, also called a Kennedy plea in West Virginia, an Alford guilty plea, and the Alford doctrine, is a guilty plea in...
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Non-retroactivity (category Ex post facto law)
that laws do not apply retroactively and ex post facto laws are forbidden. This principle may be applied to judicial decisions as well as statutory law. The...
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Latin pronunciation: [ˈnoːɫoː kɔnˈtɛndɛrɛ]). In the United States, state law determines whether, and under what circumstances, a defendant may plead no...
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Nuremberg trials (category Ex post facto law)
responsible for violations of international law is considered "the true beginning of international criminal law". Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded...
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War Crimes Act 1991 (category Ex post facto law)
jurisdiction on United Kingdom courts in respect of certain grave violations of the laws and customs of war committed in German-held territory during the Second World...
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Retrospective (section Law)
unlawful in a retroactive manner, this is known as an ex post facto law or retroactive law. Because such laws punish the accused for acts that were not unlawful...
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Statute of limitations (category Statutory law)
sexual offenses committed against minors was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. A civil statute of limitations applies to a non-criminal legal action...
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Weapons Cache Case (category Ex post facto case law)
operation was unofficial, there was no Finnish law under which those involved could be prosecuted. An ex post facto law was passed for the purpose in January 1947...
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Rogers v. Tennessee (category United States criminal due process case law)
reference to the statutory law. The court wrote, In the context of common law doctrines... Strict application of ex post facto principles... would unduly...
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Constitution of the Confederate States (category 1862 in American law)
protected slavery. Article I Section 9(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall...
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Arraignment (redirect from Post-indictment arraignment)
Wadsworth. ISBN 978-0-495-91335-1. NYS Criminal Procedure Law § 140.20(1). People ex rel. Maxian on Behalf of Roundtree v. Brown, 77 N.Y.2d 422, 570 N.E.2d 223...
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E-Commerce Law, in July 2000 to discourage future iterations of such activity. However, the Constitution of the Philippines prohibits ex post facto laws, and...
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In common law systems, the peremptory pleas (pleas in bar) are defensive pleas that set out special reasons for which a trial cannot proceed; they serve...
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Criminal procedure (redirect from Criminal Procedure Law)
Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally...
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of lesser offenses. It has a number of unusual provisions, including ex post facto application, extraterritoriality, a relaxation in the usual rules of...
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War-responsibility trials in Finland (category Ex post facto case law)
needed] Most Finns rejected the legitimacy of the trial, because ex post facto law was against the Finnish Constitution, and because only Finnish leaders...
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Garner v. Board of Public Works (category United States ex post facto case law)
years and which was enacted more than five years previous is not an ex post facto law nor a bill of attainder. In 1941, the California State Legislature...
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United States Bill of Rights (category 1791 in American law)
suspended, unless in cases of rebellion—that no bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed—that no title of nobility shall be granted by the...
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