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  2. Recusal - Wikipedia

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    Judicial disqualification laws existed in Roman law and early Jewish law, which disqualified judges from serving on cases of family, friends or enemies. [1]Civil law countries still have significant disqualification privileges, whereas common law countries, such as England, went in a different direction where recusal was required less often. [1]

  3. List of federal political scandals in the United States

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    Later was convicted of conspiracy and conflict of interest in 1968, served 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 months of a 6-month sentence and was fined $5,000. [ 189 ] Frank W. Boykin (D-AL) was placed on six months' probation in 1963 following conviction in a case involving a conflict of interest and conspiracy to defraud the government.

  4. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Wikipedia

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    Rule 14 allows parties to bring in other third parties to a lawsuit. Rule 15 allows pleadings to be amended or supplemented. Plaintiffs may amend once before an answer is filed, a defendant can amend once within 21 days of serving an answer, and if there is no right to amend, seek leave of court ("leave shall be given when justice so requires.")

  5. List of impeachment investigations of United States federal ...

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    The resolution was referred to the Rules Committee. [137] Then on February 3, 1925, Mr. Snell made a motion to refer House Resolution 402 from the Rules Committee to the Judiciary Committee. The motion carried. [138] [111] On February 10, 1925, Mr. Graham introduced a joint resolution, H.R.J. Res. 347, calling for an investigation of Judge English.

  6. Twelve Tables - Wikipedia

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    These rules show how the ancient Romans maintained peace with financial policy. In the book, The Twelve Tables, written by an anonymous source due to its origins being collaborated through a series of translations of tablets and ancient references, P.R. Coleman-Norton arranged and translated many of the significant features of debt that the ...

  7. Texas Courts of Appeals - Wikipedia

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    Districts map. There are fourteen appellate districts each of which encompasses multiple counties and is presided over by a Texas Court of Appeals denominated by number: [19] The counties of Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, and Wood are in the jurisdictions of both the Sixth and Twelfth Courts, while Hunt County is in the jurisdiction of both the Fifth and Sixth Courts.

  8. Justice of the peace - Wikipedia

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    A justice of the peace in Taos County, New Mexico, United States, hears a case (1941).. A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

  9. Legality of Holocaust denial - Wikipedia

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    (3) Whosoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or downplays an act committed under the rule of National Socialism of the kind indicated in section 6 (1) of the Code of International Criminal Law, in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding five years or a fine. [43] [44]