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  Circuit (subnational entity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Circuit (道 ; Chinese: dào; Japanese: dō) was a historical political division of China, and is still a Japanese one.
Circuits were demoted to the second-level after the Yuan Dynasty established provinces at the very top, and remained there for the next several centuries.
Circuits still existed as high-level, though not top-level, divisions of the Republic of China, such as Qiongya Circuit (now Hainan Province).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Circuit_(political_division)   (635 words)

  
 Circuit (political division) Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A circuit is an appealate judicial district among the courts of many nations.
Circuit (道 ; Chinese: dào; Japanese: dō) was a Chinese political division, and is a Japanese one.
Circuits were the highest of the three-tier system (三級制), the next two are prefectures (州) and districts (縣).
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/ci/circuit__political_division_.html   (282 words)

  
 Circuit (political division)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Circuit''' (道 ; Chinese languageChinese: '''dào'''; Japanese languageJapanese: '''dō''') was a History of the political divisions of Chinahistorical political division of China, and is still a Japanese one.
At first, circuits were the highest of the three-tier administrative system of China; the next two were prefectures or ''zhou (political division)zhou'' (州) and county of Chinacounties (縣, also translated as "districts").
Edith Swain of Benton is the winner in the adult division of the justice art contest sponsored by Prosecuting Attorney Robert Herzfeld, center, County Judge Lanny Fite, left, and Circuit Judge Grisham Phillips.
www.infothis.com /find/Circuit_(political_division)   (862 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as guitar effects, children's toys and synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators.
Circuit de Monaco is the name given to several streets in the principality of Monaco during one weekend of each year when they are closed to host the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix.
Note 1: Circuit reliability is given by where T o is the circuit total outage time, T s is the circuit total scheduled time, and T a is the..
www.hostingciamca.com /browse.php?title=C/C/CIR   (7324 words)

  
 Division 1 Football -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A hundred is an administrative division, frequently used in Europe and the West, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller geographical units.
In England a hundred was the division of a shire for administrative, military and judicial purposes under the common law.
A lathe was an administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/43/division-1-football.html   (772 words)

  
 General Legal Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Division attorneys worked on this case and are advising the Gambling Commission on the scope of bargaining allowed under the court's decision.
In this case, the division successfully defended in superior court and in the Court of Appeals a decision of the board that, to be eligible for a pension, volunteer firefighters must perform services for a volunteer fire department.
Division attorneys are advising the Department of General Administration on the implementation of that executive order.
www.atg.wa.gov /pubs/annual_report/gen_leg.htm   (1285 words)

  
 History of the political divisions of China Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Depending on one's political views, China can be described as a Zhonghua Minzusingle nation or multiple nations; a single state or multiple states; a single civilization or multiple civilizations.
China is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, with a history characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war and violent Chinese dynastydynastic change.
During the period of division after the fall of the Han Dynasty, the term ''Zhongguo'' was subjected to transformation as a result of the surge of nomadic peoples from the northern frontier.
www.echostatic.com /History_of_the_political_divisions_of_China.html   (4371 words)

  
 Shandong Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For the earlier part of this period Shandong was ruled as part of Henan Circuit, one of the circuit (political division)circuits (a political division).
The 17 Political divisions of China#Prefecture-levelprefecture-level divisions of Shandong are subdivided into 140 Political divisions of China#County-levelcounty-level divisions (49 District of Chinadistricts, 31 county-level cities, and 60 County of Chinacounties).
Those are in turn divided into 1928 Political divisions of China#Township-leveltownship-level divisions (1237 town of Chinatowns, 294 township of Chinatownships, 2 ethnic townships, and 395 subdistricts).
www.echostatic.com /Shandong.html   (1981 words)

  
 University of Pennsylvania
The Division of Public Safety is committed to enhancing the quality of life of the campus community by integrating the best practices of public and private policing with state-of-the-art technology.
The Division of Public Safety is the department authorized to oversee and coordinate the use of CCTV monitoring for safety and security purposes at the University.
The Division of Public Safety will monitor new developments in the relevant law and in security industry practices to ensure that CCTV monitoring at the University is consistent with the highest standards and protections.
www.upenn.edu /police/CCTVPolicy.htm   (2066 words)

  
 Political divide sparks disorder in the courts
Politics is blamed for making judges less civil and more partisan, and for undermining public confidence in a judiciary that is supposed to remain above the political fray.
The influence of politics has come under increasing scrutiny as the federal courts grapple with the same issues - civil rights, the death penalty, affirmative action - that divide the rest of the country.
Nowhere are those divisions more clear than at the 6th Circuit, which now is evenly split with six judges appointed by Republican presidents and six appointed by Democrats.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/06/22/loc_angryjudges22.html   (1640 words)

  
 3.00 Tax Division Policy Directives and Memoranda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Tax Division must be provided with a prosecution statement or letter describing the outlines of the Title 26 and/or Title 18 investigation, the involvement of the cooperating witness who will plead, and the anticipated cooperation that the witness is expected to provide in the investigation.
The Tax Division is working with the IRS to assure improvements in the quality of nonfiler cases referred to the Department for prosecution and to prevent an unmanageable increase in the volume of cases referred.
The authorization of the Tax Division is also required in any case which involves parallel state and federal tax violations and the charges are based on the parallel state tax violations.
www.usdoj.gov /tax/readingroom/criminal/taxc03.htm   (10958 words)

  
 Ashcroft's Civil-Rights Office Being Politicized, Critics Say
On a variety of issues, including voting rights and employment discrimination, Ashcroft aides have moved to limit the input of career employees, in some cases meeting with defendants without informing the career lawyers handling the cases or allowing them to be present, career lawyers said.
Political staff also took control of the department's consideration of Mississippi's redistricting plan, sources said, and rejected career lawyers' recommendation to approve a plan proposed by the state's Democratic-controlled legislature.
We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0315-04.htm   (1057 words)

  
 U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican - ALABAMA
The Ninth Circuit’s efficiency in deciding appeals — that is, the time the court takes between the filing of a notice of appeal and the final disposition of a case – consistently has lagged far behind other circuits.
Are Ninth Circuit judges able to speak with clarity and consistency on what the law of the circuit is? This too appears doubtful.
Additionally, the Ninth Circuit employs a limited en banc procedure under which it is not the full court of appeals, but a random draw of 10 judges, plus the chief judge, that reviews three-judge panel decisions.
sessions.senate.gov /pressapp/record.cfm?id=220190   (1440 words)

  
 Court Restructuring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The commission strongly recommended keeping the Ninth Circuit together as a single administrative unit, stressing the importance of having a single court interpret and apply federal law in the western United States and the Pacific Rim.
A majority of the judges in each division would be residents of the division, but each division would include some non-resident judges assigned randomly for three-year terms.
Comprised of 13 judges - the chief and four judges chosen by lot from each division for three-year terms - the Circuit Division's jurisdiction would be discretionary and could be invoked by a party after a divisional en banc decision or denial of an en banc.
www.ce9.uscourts.gov /web/restructure.nsf/597dcf1d2a30f3768825681e00696458/07cbfc39cbf3497a88256840005d6425   (1268 words)

  
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But although Herman was not investigated by the IC differently than she would have been otherwise, in the ab- sence of the Act she would not have incurred fees for review and response to the IC's final report.
Richard D. Cudahy, Circuit Judge, concurring in the judg- ment: I fully concur in the allowance of fees incurred to respond to the Independent Counsel's final report--an expense which clearly would not have been incurred absent the unique requirements of the Ethics in Government Act calling for submission of a final report.
As to the denial by the majority of the remainder of Secretary Herman's fee claims, although these might be debatable as a matter of first impression, they seem foreclos- ed by the recent precedents--though not necessarily by older, and established, authority--of this court.
pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov /common/opinions/200208/98-0002d.txt   (3408 words)

  
 Circuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Some political and judicial administrative divisions are known as Circuit (political division)Circuit/s.
At an airfield, the circuit (airfield)circuit/ is an agreed pattern for managing local air traffic.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused an emergency request to shut down a logging project taking place near the Lewis and Clark Trail in the Clearwater National Forest.
www.infothis.com /find/Circuit   (310 words)

  
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O R D E R This matter coming to be heard and being heard before the Special Division of the Court upon the petition of Catherine Baker Stetson for reimbursement of attorneys' fees and costs pursuant to section 593(f) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended, 28 U.S.C. s 591 et seq.
Because we conclude that Stetson has not carried her burden of showing that the fees would not have been incurred but for the requirements of the Act, we deny the petition in its entirety.
The IC issued a subpoena for certain documents to Stetson, who subsequently destroyed a number of documents that she claimed were not responsive to the subpoena.
pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov /common/opinions/200206/98-0001b.txt   (1692 words)

  
 ABA President-Elect Will Tell BHBA He Opposes Division Of Ninth Circuit
“Circuit restructuring is a remedy of last resort and should only be used if there is compelling evidence that justice is being denied to individual litigants and the integrity of the law is threatened,” Grey plans to tell the BHBA, according to excerpts from his prepared remarks released by the ABA.
Testifying in favor of a split were Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada, and Ninth Circuit Judges Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain and Richard Tallman, while Chief Judge Mary Schroeder and Senior Judge J. Clifford Wallace, a former chief judge, urged that the status quo be maintained.
The Ninth Circuit would consist of California, Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands; the Twelfth Circuit would include Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana—it would hear cases in both Phoenix and Las Vegas—and the Thirteenth Circuit would be made up of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon.
www.metnews.com /articles/2004/nint060104.htm   (469 words)

  
 Click Here for JEAC Opinion #99_08POLITICS, ELECTIONS, AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE (campaign conduct by candidate and ...
You have asked whether your wife may work, either as a volunteer or as a paid employee, in the political campaign of a candidate seeking election to a statewide office.
The context of that language suggests that in the course of judicial campaigns, the candidate must encourage his relatives to behave in the same fashion.
We conclude that the spouse of a judge is free to participate in other political campaigns.
www.state.ar.us /jeac/opinions/02_06.html   (237 words)

  
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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that decision in Pincham v.
Nonetheless, the seventh circuit held that the case presented an actual controversy because the challenged rule would affect future elections.
Second and more importantly, the rule involved here has been revised to allow judges to attend political gatherings and, when a candidate for public election, to publicly endorse or oppose other candidates in a public election in which the judge or judicial candidate is running.
www.state.il.us /court/opinions/AppellateCourt/1996/1stDistrict/December/HTML/1933252.txt   (1249 words)

  
 circuit - OneLook Dictionary Search
noun: (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals
Phrases that include circuit: circuit breaker, integrated circuit, short circuit, open circuit, printed circuit, more...
Words similar to circuit: lap, loop, beat, circle, circuital, circuited, circuiting, round, tour, electrical circuit, electric circuit, racing circuit, more...
www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=circuit   (544 words)

  
 Indiana Code 3-5-4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(1) Each circuit court clerk, if the commission determines that the form is primarily used by a candidate, a county election board member, a county or town political party, or for absentee or provisional ballot purposes.
(c) Notwithstanding any law requiring the name or signature of the circuit court clerk to appear on a ballot for authentication or any other purpose, the name or signature of the individual who is circuit court clerk may not appear on the ballot except to indicate that the individual is a candidate for an office.
This property shall be retained and preserved in the manner specified by the rules of the political party.
www.state.in.us /legislative/ic/code/title3/ar5/ch4.html   (941 words)

  
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) JUSTICE SCARIANO delivered the opinion of the Court: This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court de- nying plaintiff Robert K. Anderson's challenge to the nominating petition of Arthur J. Fitzgerald as a candidate for Republican Ward Committeeman of the 47th Ward of the City of Chicago.
That challenge was rejected by a hearing examiner appointed by the Chicago Board of Elections ("the Board"), by the Board itself, and by the circuit court.
Accordingly, the judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.
www.state.il.us /COURT/Opinions/AppellateCourt/1996/1stDistrict/October/WP/1960628.doc   (884 words)

  
 Lansing State Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Circuit judges earn $139,919 a year, serve six-year terms and have jurisdiction over civil cases seeking more than $25,000 in damages.
The court is split into the family and general trial divisions.
Under the reorganization plan, the top vote-getter can pick which division he or she will work in.
www.lsj.com /news/local/p_021008elex_1b-2b.html   (666 words)

  
 ABA-Law Student Division
To find out which ABA Law Student Division circuit your school is in, see page 34.
To report on news from your school, e-mail your circuit governor and abastulawyer@abanet.org.
As part of Work-A-Day programming, students from the Eleventh Circuit prepared food and served more than 100 men, women, and children at a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C. É Last fall, Equal Justice Works held a training session in Washington for schools seeking to improve their loan repayment programs.
www.abanet.org /lsd/stulawyer/mar03/circuitboard.html   (435 words)

  
 In re Janet G. Mullins
PER CURIAM: This matter coming to be heard and being heard before the Special Division of the Court, upon the application of Margaret DeB.
Based on the apparent discrepancy in the investigators' reports of Mullins' interviews and the contact between Mullins and Berry, Funk concluded that Mullins may have made false statements to the investigators and referred the case to DOJ for further action.
On December 10, DOJ Criminal Division recommended to Attorney General William Barr that he seek appointment of an independent counsel and, on December 11, Barr asked this court to do so.
www.ll.georgetown.edu /federal/judicial/dc/opinions/9_opinions/92-0009c.html   (4790 words)

  
 Oral History
Chief judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (1962-78); Chairman, Task Force on Law and Public Awareness, President's Panel on Mental Retardation (1962-63).
Texas political figure; Kennedy campaign worker (1960); Department of Health, Education, and Welfare official for congressional liaison.
DES MARAIS, PHILIP H. Louisiana political figure; delegate, Democratic National Convention (1956); worker, John F. Kennedy's Presidential campaign, Louisiana (1960); Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
www.cs.umb.edu /~serl/jfk/oralhist.htm   (5251 words)

  
 CFP 2004 / Computer Freedom & Privacy Conference
Kim Alexander is a 1988 graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with degrees in political science and philosophy.
His BA is in Political Science from American University, and he is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, and Pi Alpha Alpha, the National Public Affairs and Administration Honor Society.
Matthew Hindman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Politics at Princeton University, and is a visiting doctoral fellow at the NCDG during the 2002-2003 academic year.
www.cfp2004.org /program/speakers.html   (17893 words)

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