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| | Immunity (legal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Judicial immunity, which finds its origin in sovereign immunity, is the absolute immunity of a judge or magistrate from any kind of civil liability for an act performed in the judge's official capacity, i.e. | | | Like judicial immunity, the prosecutor, who is acting under the direction of the sovereign or crown to prosecute cannot be held liable for acts done as an agent of the sovereign. | | | Immunity confers a status ojavascript:insertTags('ì',,)n a person or body that makes that person or body free from otherwise legal obligations such as, for example, lijavascript:insertTags('Ú',,)ability for damages or punishment for criminal acts. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunity_(legal)
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| | The immunity provision is applicable only with State of Ohio law and in Ohio courts. | | | Legal defense is provided regardless of whether lawsuits are filed in State, Federal, or other state courts. | | | Immunity in the context of this discussion is protection from being personally named as a defendant (personally sued) in a state civil lawsuit. |
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http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/riskmgmt/immunity.html
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| | immunity - definition of immunity by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | immunity - the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust" | | | Exemption from normal legal duties, penalties, or liabilities, granted to a special group of people: legislative immunity. | | | official immunity - personal immunity accorded to a public official from liability to anyone injured by actions that are the consequence of exercing official authority |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/immunity
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| | Duhaime's Canadian Law Dictionary : I |
| | Legal rights which are intangible such as copyrights or patents. | | | Another example of an immunity is where a witness agrees to testify only if the testimony cannot be used at some later date during a hearing against the witness. | | | A motion "in limine" is a motion that is tabled by one of the parties at the very beginning of the legal procedures. |
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http://www.duhaime.org/dictionary/dict-i.aspx
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Immunity |
| | Immunity means an exemption from a legal obligation (munus), imposed on a person or his property by law, custom, or the order of a superior (lex 214, sqq. | | | Further, personal immunity exempts the clergy from public duties imposed by law on citizens in general or on certain classes, and also from taxation and imposts. | | | No one disputes that immunities are part of the positive ecclesiastical law; every one admits that they have been inserted in civil laws, else they could not have been applied. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07690a.htm
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| | Legal Definition of Sovereign Immunity |
| | Federal sovereign immunity is readily distinguishable from the states' immunity under the Eleventh Amendment and foreign governments' immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. | | | Federal sovereign immunity is a defense to liability rather than a right to be free from trial. | | | Similar sovereignty concerns are not implicated by the maintenance of suit against the United States in federal court. |
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http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/s103.htm
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| | Embattled MP claims immunity from legal prosecution for statements |
| | She stressed that from the legal standpoint the Revolutionary Court has no power to subpoena her. | | | As for the summoning of a number of Majlis deputies to the court, Haqiqatjou was quoted as saying that deputies are entitled to parliamentary immunity in order to be able to discharge their duties properly. | | | She said that in her opinion any summons issued to her would be a violation of the constitution. |
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http://www.payvand.com/news/01/feb/1151.html
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| | Sovereign immunity and copyright registration: Legal Language Services |
| | Congress could require states to waive their Eleventh Amendment immunity, held the court, pursuant to a legitimate exercise of Article I power, as under the Copyright Act. | | | The current Copyright Act provides at § 511(a) that states "shall not be immune, under the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of the United States or under any other doctrine of sovereign immunity, from suit in Federal Court. | | | If the Court decides in favor of the states, the result could well be that any state instrumentality, such as a state university, hospital or tourism bureau, could infringe copyrighted works with impunity. |
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http://www.legallanguage.com/lawarticles/Clarida009.html
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| | JS Online: Staffers with immunity give state legal bills of $75,000 |
| | The legal fees of other state employees are not paid until there has been a resolution in their case. | | | Despite the fact that taxpayers are footing the bill for most or all of the legal expenses, the Assembly and Senate chief clerks have refused to provide unedited copies of all of those legal bills. | | | The legal bills show that of the 16 who submitted such bills, the largest was from Andy Engel, a former Senate Democratic caucus staffer, for $13,560. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/news/State/apr02/36580.asp
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Legal experts boost Chirac immunity |
| | However, the report said: "Because the immunity is intended to protect the office and not its holder, it must be absolute as long as the mandate lasts, but it must also end with the mandate, when the [president] becomes an equal before the law." | | | This would involve a complicated process leading to the two houses of parliament being summoned to sit together as a court. | | | However, legal proceedings could resume once he stands down, say the 12 experts picked by President Chirac himself. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2569887.stm
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| | Employers seeking even more immunity from legal liability |
| | This is a reasonable trade-off -- in theory: legal immunity and predictable compensation costs for employers; assured compensation without legal bills for injured workers. | | | But these are a small price for immunity from any legal action under workers’ compensation laws. | | | It seems employers are bent on winning absolute immunity from legal liability involving workers. |
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http://www.mtn.org/mnaflcio/employers.html
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| | But now the legal tables appear to be turning, as states, courts, and the federal government are taking steps toward providing varying levels of statutory immunity for employers who supply references regarding previous employees. | | | The case, which will be heard by the Supreme Court, may conflict with many state employer immunity laws. | | | The laws, which give employers immunity from defamation claims when providing references, include clauses that would protect employers from lawsuits if negative references are true or are given in good faith. |
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http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000240.html
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| | Bush's "Solution" to Torture Scandal -- Legal Immunity |
| | The issue of immunity for U.S. troops is among the most contentious in the Islamic world, where it has galvanized public opinion against the United States in the past. | | | The administration aims to declare complete immunity from any "local criminal, civil and administrative jurisdiction and from any form of arrest or detention other than by persons acting on behalf of their parent (non-Iraq) states." | | | U.S. officials admitted Washington's act could also create the impression that the United States is not turning over full sovereignty -- and giving itself special privileges. |
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http://www.progress.org/2004/iraq31.htm
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| | FindLaw's Writ - Hilden: Why You Can't Sue Google |
| | Prior to the federal law granting the immunity, sites were often afraid to edit what was posted there at all -- for fear of being deemed "editors" or "publishers" of the information, and therefore incurring liability. | | | If publication of the information was risky, from a legal perspective, a company's attorneys would get involved -- seeking changes, or possibly cautioning against publication. | | | Fortunately, the federal law's immunity freed these sites to get rid of objectionable materials in their chat rooms and on their message boards. |
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20040525.html
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| | Bush Gives Oil Corporations Immunity in Iraq-Executive Order 13303 |
| | The president, with a stroke of the pen, signed away the rights of Saddam's victims, creditors and of the next true Iraqi government to be compensated through legal action. | | | In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, it will be immune from legal proceedings in the United States. | | | Bush Gives Legal Immunity to Transnational Oil Corporations in Iraq |
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http://reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/oil_corporations_iraq_immunity.html
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| | FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Eleventh Amendment |
| | The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. | | | U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. : **Over 36,000 Legal Forms** Stop Reinventing the Wheel each time you draft a legal document. | | | Use the Thomson Legal Record to access a lawyer's litigation record, articles and more! |
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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment11
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| | BBC NEWS Americas Pinochet faces murder case probe |
| | In Thursday's ruling, the Court of Appeal decided by 14 votes to 9 that Gen Pinochet should lose his legal immunity in the case. | | | A Chilean court has stripped former military ruler Augusto Pinochet of his legal immunity over the murder of his predecessor as army chief. | | | A former Chilean secret service agent, Eduardo Arancibia Clavel, was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Argentine court in November 2000 for his direct involvement in the killing. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4062749.stm
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| | The intent was to immunize the oil and gas only "until title passes to the initial purchaser" and further does "not apply to any legal proceeding... | | | In order to encourage the flow of oil revenues into the Development Fund, the UN Security Council declared that Iraqi oil and gas would be immune from legal proceedings until Dec. 31, 2007. | | | "In terms of legal liability, the Executive Order cancels the concept of corporate accountability and abandons the rule of law," charged Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project. |
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http://www.seen.org/BushEO.shtml
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| | Legal Immunity |
| | I have not checked but I bet that if there are courses in legal ethics that attorneys are not even required. | | | I strongly believe that 3/4 of the university courses require to train attorneys should be courses in Ethics. | | | A special Web Page has been put on the Internet concerning the "pewking-ways" the Governments are letting justice fall through the cracks. |
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http://herff.com/Legal_Stuff/Immunity.html
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| | Immunity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In a legal sense, immunity confers a status on a person or body that makes that person or body free from otherwise legal obligations such as, for example, liability for damages or punishment for criminal acts. | | | Transactional immunity refers to the inability of the prosecutor to prosecute a witness in exchange for the witness's testimony, an action referred to as "turning state's evidence." Under use immunity, the government may not use a witness's grand jury testimony to prosecute that person. | | | But if the state acquires evidence for a crime independent of the testimony, then the witness can be prosecuted. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunity
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| | Legal Definition of 'Immunity' |
| | IMMUNITY - Exemption from a legal duty, penalty or prosecution. | | | The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon On * Immunity * | | | Under the principles of international law and various conventions immunity against prosecution for most crimes and offenses, as well as immunity from most civil suits, is extended to diplomats of foreign nations. |
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http://www.lectlaw.com/def/i009.htm
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| | The Legal Action Project :: Immunity :: Articles |
| | Senior attorney Brian Siebel explains why Congress should not protect reckless gun merchants from lawsuits. | | | The Legal Action Project :: Immunity :: Articles | | | The Gun industry Immunity Bill Was Defeated, and What Happened? |
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http://www.gunlawsuits.org/immunity/articles.php
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| | Disclaimer -- Legal Information Is Not Legal Advice | | | To find a solution to your legal problem or question: |
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| | Pope seeks immunity in Texas abuse case |
| | Joseph Ratzinger is named as a defendant in the civil lawsuit. | | | The Vatican's embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope's lawyers in U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Texas in Houston. | | | VATICAN CITY -- Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/religion/cst-nws-pope17.html
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| | Legal Aspects of Diplomatic Immunity and Privileges |
| | Reasonable constraints, however, may be applied in emergency circumstances involving self-defense, public safety, or the prevention of serious criminal acts. | | | More detailed information is provided in the publication Diplomatic and Consular Immunity: Guidance for Law Enforcement and Judicial Authorities. | | | This chart outlines the immunities afforded to foreign diplomatic personnel residing in the United States. |
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http://www.state.gov/m/ds/immunities/c9127.htm
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| | Earthrights International - News: Outrageous Bush Executive Order on Iraq Oil Must be Investigated |
| | Similarly, the Order purports to protect any assets derived from Iraqi oil from judgment, garnishment, or any other seizure in U.S. courts. | | | President Bush has issued an Executive Order, so far completely unreported, that purports to grant broad legal immunity to oil companies operating in Iraq. | | | The document is apparently intended as a sweeping grant of immunity to individuals, corporations, agencies and others involved in Iraqi oil sales, marketing, or other oil-related activities. |
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http://www.earthrights.org/news/eo13303.shtml
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