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  2. Constables in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In Georgia, constables are court officers whose powers and duties are: To attend regularly all sessions of magistrate court; to pay promptly over money collected by them to the magistrate court; to execute and return all warrants, summonses, executions, and other processes directed to them by the magistrate court; and to perform such other ...

  3. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Wikipedia

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    Federal courts are now required to apply the substantive law of the states as rules of decision in cases where state law is in question, including state judicial decisions, and the federal courts almost always are required to use the FRCP as their rules of civil procedure.

  4. Justice of the peace - Wikipedia

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    The Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 introduced a new office of lay magistrate, to sit alongside resident magistrates at magistrates' courts in certain matters. Unlike in England and Wales, "lay magistrate" is the official title of the position, to distinguish from existing justices of the peace who do not sit in the magistrates' courts.

  5. List of courts of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The trial courts are U.S. district courts, followed by United States courts of appeals and then the Supreme Court of the United States. The judicial system, whether state or federal, begins with a court of first instance, whose work may be reviewed by an appellate court, and then ends at the court of last resort, which may review the work of ...

  6. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

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    All of Gao Xingjian's works have been banned for having content critical of the CCP. [78] [67] How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1930-1945 (2000) Gao Hua: History Banned for exploring in detail Mao Zedong in the Yan'an Rectification and the internal struggles of the CCP. [79] [80] Shanghai ...

  7. Court dress - Wikipedia

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    The judges of the new superior courts, including the Chief Justice and President, adopted for all occasions—ceremonial or otherwise—the ordinary working judicial dress of the austere type previously worn by members of the old Court of Appeal, that is, as Order 119 rule 2 of the Rules of the Superior Courts, 1986 originally read:

  8. Anti-communism - Wikipedia

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    Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an intense rivalry.

  9. Freedom of speech by country - Wikipedia

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    The ruling removed the awkward—and hitherto binding—conditions of being able to describe the publisher as being under a duty to publish the material and the public as having a definite interest in receiving it. The original House of Lords judgment in Reynolds was unclear and held 3–2; whereas Jameel was unanimous and resounding.