Compendium of Precedents Involving Evidentiary Rulings and Applications of Evidentiary Principles from Selected Impeachment Trials (open access)

Compendium of Precedents Involving Evidentiary Rulings and Applications of Evidentiary Principles from Selected Impeachment Trials

This report is a compilation of evidentiary issues and rulings from the Senate impeachment trials of Judges Nixon, Hastings, Claiborne, Ritter, Louderback, and Swayne. A discourse on what evidentiary rules and principles are applicable in impeachment trials is appended.
Date: January 29, 1999
Creator: Bazan, Elizabeth B.; Jones, Nancy Lee; Doyle, Charles & Shampansky, Jay R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crime and Forfeiture: The Innocent Third Party (open access)

Crime and Forfeiture: The Innocent Third Party

Forfeiture has survived through time in American law, and since 1984, the use of forfeiture statutes to divest felons of their spoils has increased substantially. This report reviews the case law which raises the issue concerning many relative to whether some civil forfeiture proceedings constitute punishment which may violate the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause.
Date: June 29, 1999
Creator: Wallace, Paul S., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
MILITARY CONTINGENCY FUNDING FOR BOSNIA, SOUTHWEST ASIA, AND OTHER OPERATIONS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (open access)

MILITARY CONTINGENCY FUNDING FOR BOSNIA, SOUTHWEST ASIA, AND OTHER OPERATIONS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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Date: March 29, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preemption Language in Federal Environmental Statutes (open access)

Preemption Language in Federal Environmental Statutes

This report compiles the provisions in federal environmental statutes that explicitly state whether Congress intended to preempt state law.
Date: July 29, 1999
Creator: Meltz, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
RUSSIA’S RELIGION LAW: ASSESSMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS (open access)

RUSSIA’S RELIGION LAW: ASSESSMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS

This report provides an overview and assessment of Russia's Religion Law. It reviews the response from the U.S. Government, such as calls from the Administration and Congress to have Russia uphold religious freedom.
Date: April 29, 1999
Creator: Nichol, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vietnam: Economic Reforms and Commercial Relations with the United States (open access)

Vietnam: Economic Reforms and Commercial Relations with the United States

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Date: October 29, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library