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The act of state doctrine entered into American jurisprudence in the case Underhill v.Hernandez, 168 U.S. 250 (1897). [5] In an 1892 revolution, General José Manuel "Mocho" Hernández expelled the existing Venezuelan government and took control of Ciudad Bolívar, where plaintiff Underhill lived and ran a waterworks system for the city.
[1] [2] [3] The rule is part of the conflict of laws rules developed at common law, and forms part of the act of state doctrine. In State of Colorado v. Harbeck, 133 N.E. 357, 360 (N.Y. 1921) the court referred to The ... well-settled principle of private international law which precludes one state from acting as a collector of taxes for a ...
State act, state action, or act of state may refer to: Act of state doctrine, act of a sovereign state; State occasion; Exercise of the royal prerogative was formerly called an "act of state" State action, doctrine that only state actions are subject to regulation under the US Constitution; State action immunity doctrine, exemption from ...
The federal government and nearly every state have passed tort claims acts allowing them to be sued for the negligence, but not intentional wrongs [citation needed], of government employees. The common-law tort doctrine of respondeat superior makes employers generally responsible for the torts of their employees. In the absence of this waiver ...
Consular nonreviewability (sometimes written as consular non-reviewability, and also called consular absolutism) refers to the doctrine in immigration law in the United States where the visa decisions made by United States consular officers (Foreign Service Officers working for the United States Department of State) cannot be challenged in the United States judicial system.
At least four U.S. Supreme Court justices have signaled support for an extreme legal doctrine that would give state legislatures unchecked power over elections and political maps.
The topic of state responsibility was one of the first 14 areas provisionally selected for the ILC's attention in 1949. [7] When the ILC listed the topic for codification in 1953, "state responsibility" was distinguished from a separate topic on the "treatment of aliens", reflecting the growing view that state responsibility encompasses the breach of an international obligation.
Act of state doctrine - legal doctrine that sovereign states must respect the independence of other sovereign states; Parker immunity doctrine - legal doctrine in U.S. courts that certain acts of the U.S. state governments are immune from antitrust liability; Sovereign immunity - legal doctrine that a sovereign state cannot commit a legal wrong