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    The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73) was a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First...
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  • Judiciary Act may refer to any of several statutes relating to the organization of national court systems: Judiciary Act 1903 Judiciary Act of 1789,...
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  • Judges Act (also known as the Judiciary Act of 1801; 2 Stat. 89, and officially An act to provide for the more convenient organization of the Courts of the...
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    Supreme Court, the Judiciary Act of 1789 established the entire federal judiciary. The Supreme Court became important under the leadership of Chief Justice...
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    and was organized by the 1st United States Congress. Through the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress specified the Court's original and appellate jurisdiction...
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  • Marbury v. Madison (category Legal history of the District of Columbia)
    jurisdiction over types of cases like Marbury's—Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789—the Court found that the Act had expanded the definition of the Supreme Court's...
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  • Judicial reform (category Judiciaries)
    of prosecutors from the executive. The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73) was a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789,...
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  • of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law". The act in its original form was part of the Judiciary Act of 1789...
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    William Paterson (judge) (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    ratification of the Constitution, Paterson served in the United States Senate from 1789 to 1790, helping to draft the Judiciary Act of 1789. He resigned...
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    do by § 33 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 and § 4 of the Judiciary Act of 1793—on an original writ of habeas corpus. The greater portion of the decision...
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    Court of the United States is the only court specifically established by the Constitution of the United States, implemented in 1789; under the Judiciary Act...
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  • Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Hughes Court)
    the Judiciary Act of 1789, which created the U.S. federal court system underneath the U.S. Supreme Court. The Act gave U.S. federal courts a type of authority...
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    some of the first federal crimes in the United States and expanded on the criminal procedure provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789. The Crimes Act was...
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    Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The Judiciary Act of 1789 established New Jersey as a single District on September 24, 1789. On February...
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    during Chief Justice Marshall's tenure. The Judiciary Act of 1789 divided original jurisdiction for the trial of federal crimes between the United States...
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  • Swift v. Tyson (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Taney Court)
    with the concept of federal general common law in the United States. Section 34 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 states that "the laws of the several states...
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  • March 2, 1793. It established a number of regulations related to court procedures. The Judiciary Act of 1789 had created, in addition to the Supreme...
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    Judiciary Act of 1789, the office represents the United States government in criminal and civil cases across the country. The SDNY handles a broad array of cases...
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    William Cushing (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    portal United States portal Judiciary Act of 1789 List of nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States List of United States Supreme Court cases...
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    to 1789, when Congress created the office of the Attorney General. The office of the attorney general was established by the Judiciary Act of 1789 as...
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    established shortly after the ratification of the Constitution with the Judiciary Act of 1789. Section 1 also establishes that federal judges do not face term...
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  • is prescribed in oaths as early as the Judiciary Act of 1789, for U.S. officers other than the President. The act makes the semantic distinction between...
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    through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme...
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    Marshall Court (category Supreme Court of the United States)
    Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, since it extended the court's original jurisdiction beyond what was established in Article III of the United...
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    Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789 which, among other things, established the Office of the Attorney General. The original duties of this officer were...
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  • the case, citing a lack of jurisdiction under the Judiciary Act of 1789, on grounds that a state could not be sued by a citizen of another state in federal...
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    of office, and the end date is the date of the justice's death, resignation, or retirement. The Judiciary Act of 1789 (1 Stat. 73) set the number of Supreme...
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    Post Office is established. September 24 – The Judiciary Act of 1789 establishes the federal judiciary, and the United States Marshals Service. September...
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    Wednesday, January 7, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified that same year. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as...
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    is a series 1896 United States one-dollar bill. It was one of three notes in the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing's (BEP) Educational Series. After many...
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