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 Encyclopedia: Federal district
The Mexican Federal District or Distrito Federal (D.F.) is an area within Mexico that is not part of any of the States of Mexico, but is administered by the Mexican Federal Government and as such it is the seat of the Mexican Federal Government.
Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C., Washington, the Nations Capital, or the District, and historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America, and as such, the word Washington is often used as a...
Federalism Subnational entity is a generic term for an administrative region within a country — on an arbitrary level below that of the sovereign state — typically with a local government encompassing multiple municipalities, counties, or provinces with a certain degree of autonomy in a varying number of matters.
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 Federal district -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Federal districts are subdivisions of a (Any federal law-enforcement officer) federal system of government.
These districts are not generally considered to be one of the countries' component (The way something is with respect to its main attributes) states and should not be confused with them, but are rather separate entities under the direct control of the federal government.
In the (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russian Federation, there are 7 (additional info and facts about Federal Districts of Russia) Federal Districts of Russia which function as an additional administrative layer between other subdivisions and the national level.
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 Read about Federal district at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Federal district and learn about Federal district ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Federal Districts of Russia which function as an additional administrative layer between other subdivisions and the national level.
District Courts, which are sometimes referred to as Federal District Courts because the federal court system divides the country into
Federal Reserve Banks each of which is responsible for a Federal Reserve District.
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 Venezuelan Capital District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Capital District (Spanish: Distrito Capital) of Venezuela is a federal district corresponding to the capital Caracas.
The District borders on the states of Vargas and Miranda.
Formerly it had its own local government with a governor, but the constitutional reform of 1999 abolished the district government and created instead the Metropolitan District of Caracas, with jurisdiction over the territory of the District and also four adjacent municipios (Baruta, Chacao, el Hatillo and Sucre) in Miranda.
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 Federal District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
These districts are not generally considered to be one of the countries' component states and should not be confused with them, but are rather separate entities under the direct control of the federal government.
Distrito Federal, meaning "Federal District" in both the Spanish language and Portuguese language, can refer to:
In the U.S. federal court system there are District Courts, which are sometimes referred to as Federal District Courts because the federal court system divides the country into federal judicial districts.
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 Federal district - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These districts are not generally considered to be one of the countries' component states and should not be confused with them, but are rather separate entities under the direct control of the federal government — forms of territory.
Argentine Federal District, nowadays the Autonomous city of Buenos Aires
In Australia, the seat of the federal government in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, is a federal district.
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 Federalism biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Federalism (from the Latin fœdus, "covenant") is a system of government in which power is divided by constitutional right between national and local units of government in regions.
The distinction between unitary and federal governments is not always clear, as the national government in a formally unitary system of government may make large grants of power to local units resulting in a system that becomes de facto federal.
Often, the division of power between federal and local governments is outlined in the national constitution, as is the case with the United States and Australia.
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 Federal District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
These districts are not generally considered to be one of the countries' component states and should not be confused with them, but are rather separateentities under the direct control of the federal government.
In the Russian Federation, there are 7 Federal Districts of Russia which functionas an additional administrative layer between other subdivisions and the national level.
In the U.S. federal court system there are District Courts, which are sometimes referred to as Federal DistrictCourts because the federal court system divides the country into federal judicial districts.
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 Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Auth. v. Federal Maritime Comm'n
The reparations claim, which is based on the very same four shipments at issue in the federal court collection action, clearly arose out of the same transaction or occurrence and virtually all of the facts necessary to the reparations claim would have formed the basis of a defense to the collection action.
Indeed, the FMC itself has in the past taken the position that federal courts have concurrent jurisdiction over reparations claims brought under section 22 of the 1916 Act and that a reparations counterclaim could be raised in federal district court.
[5]collaterally attack a federal court's final judgment by raising before an agency a claim based on a defense that could have been, but was not, raised in the federal court.
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Whereas in 1920, 11.7 percent of the Venezuelan population was urbanized (Gilbert, 1987), by 1990 85.0 percent of Venezuelans resided in urban areas (Venezuelan Census, 1990).
The Federal District was a zone of attraction (1.43) prior to 1980, but became a zone of repulsion during the 1985-1990 (0.45) time period.
The anomaly for migrant exchange ratios is the Federal District that appears to have become a redistributor of migrants to the adjacent states as well as to the western highlands while continuing to attract migrants from northeastern states.
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The district court denied both of SOS's motions.\par }{\plain \tab SOS appealed the judgment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and moved to stay the appellate proceedings or, in the alternative, to refer the case to the FMC under the doctrine of primary jurisdiction.
We do not enter the fray, as do the parties, for under the principle of claim preclusion, "'a final judgment on the merits of an action precludes the parties or their privies from relitigating issues that were or }{\plain \ul could have been raised}{\plain in that action.'" }{\plain \ul Manego}{\plain v.
In that case, the Second Circuit denied requests to remand the case to the district court to assert rate reasonableness defenses that were not raised in the district court, but}{\plain stated that Georgia-Pacific could nevertheless }{\plain continue to pursue a reparation action based on rate unreasonableness before the ICC.
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 Venezuelan Capital District - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Capital District (Spanish: Distrito Capital) is the capital area of Venezuela which is placed at the same rank of states.
There is no political unit for governing the Capital District.
From this point on the renamed Capital District has been no entity of itself.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Venezuelan_Capital_District   (185 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Venezuela - Local Government | Venezuelan Information Resource
Districts are divided into municipalities and are constitutionally independent of the state in economic and administrative matters, subject only to national laws and regulations.
States are divided into districts, the number of districts depending on the size of the state.
Districts are governed by popularly elected councils; elections for council members take place at the same time as those for national officials.
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 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
However, recognizing that Rule 21 permits district courts to drop dispensable nondiverse parties, the court remanded the case to the District Court for a determination whether it would be prudent to drop Bettison from the litigation.
Recognizing that Rule 21 permits district courts to drop a dispensable nondiverse party, the court remanded the case to the District Court for it to determine whether it would be prudent to drop Bettison from the litigation.
The overriding practical consideration is that the District Court, which managed the process of discovery and the presentation of evidence at trial, is in the much better position to determine whether the dismissal of the nondiverse party, after judgment, would prejudice the defendant.
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 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
The District Court concluded that the corporation's property interest in the sugar was subject to Cuba's territorial jurisdiction and acknowledged the "act of state" doctrine, which precludes judicial inquiry in this country respecting the public acts of a recognized foreign sovereign power committed within its own territory.
If federal authority, in this instance this Court, orders the filed of judicial competence in this area for the federal courts, and the state courts are left free to formulate their own rules, the purposes behind the doctrine could be as effectively undermined as if there had been no federal pronouncement on the subject.
United States, 318 U.S. Of course the federal interest guarded in all these cases is one the ultimate statement of which is derived from a federal statute.
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 Federalism - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Federalism denotes a system of government in which power is divided by constitutional right between national and local units of government in regions.
Examples of federal systems include the governments of Australia, Canada, Germany, Malaysia, the former Soviet Union, Switzerland, the United States, and the former Yugoslavia.
The World Federalist Movement advocates the establishment of a world government in which the division of powers would include assigning proper constitutional authority to world bodies in order to establish a universal rule of law.
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 Federal district Online Research :: Information about Federal district   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
These districts are not generally considered to be one of the countries' component State (national) and should not be confused with them, but are rather separate entities under the direct control of the federal government - forms of Territory.
In India, the capital city, New Delhi, is located in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
In the Federal Government of the United States#Judicial branch there are United States district court, which are sometimes referred to as Federal District Courts because the federal court system divides the country into United States federal judicial district.
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 federlism information,federalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The distinction between unitary and federal governments is not always clear, as the national government in a formally unitarysystem of government may make large grants of power to local units resulting in a system that becomes de facto federal.An example of this is the United Kingdom.
Often, the division of power between federal and local governments is outlined in the national constitution, as is the casewith the United States and Australia.
The relationshipbetween federal and local courts varies from nation to nation and can be a controversial and complex issue in itself.
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 CARACAS - LoveToKnow Article on CARACAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
, the principal city and the capital of the United States of \Te,nezuela, situated at the western extremity of an elevated valley of the Venezuelan.
Caracas was founded in 1567 by Diego de Losada under the pious title of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, and has been successively capital of the province of Caracas, of the captaincygeneral of Caracas and Venezuela, and of the republic of Venezuela.
It is also one of the two chief cities, or capitals, of the Federal district.
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 Venezuelan People
It establishes a federal republic of twenty states, two federal territories (Amazonas and Delta Amacuro), a Federal District (Caracas), and seventy-two island dependencies.
The food in Venezuela is generally easy and flavorful Venezuelan cooking has European, indigenous, and African roots - an unorthodox cuisine formed over the centuries by immigrants.
Some native dishes are: Pabellon – a stewed and shredded meat dish accompanied by rice, fl beans and banana; Hallaca – a traditional Christmas dish; Cachapa – a type of sweet corn pancake served with cheese; and Arepas – a type of round cornmeal biscuit.
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 Red Cross Red Crescent - News archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Venezuelan Ministry of Interior, through the National Civil Defence Authorities, are coordinating the relief operation.
Venezuelan Red Cross has been assisting people in more than 80 shelters (16 macro-shelters have been established in Caracas).
Two Federation delegates have arrived in-country to support the operation, and 60,000 Swiss francs have been released from the Disater Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the relief operation.
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 The Panama Convention and Its Implementation Under the Federal Arbitration Act - Articles - Resources - The State Bar ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is the Committee's expectation, in view of that fact and the parallel legislation under the Federal Arbitration Act that would be applied to the Conventions, that courts in the United States would achieve a general uniformity of results under the two conventions.
Both Chapters also contain nearly identical provisions making Chapter 1 of the federal act applicable to actions and proceedings brought under their provisions to the extent Chapter 1 is not in conflict with these statutory provisions or the Conventions.
Still, it might be considered unfortunate that the district court did not take the opportunity which this case clearly offered to examine the extent of its subject matter jurisdiction with respect to the Panama Convention.
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 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
As the district court explained, Wisconsin law/4 has long held that representations regarding one's future conduct are only considered false if "the person who made the promise had no intention to perform the same at the time he made it." Anderson v.
We therefore agree with the district court that summary judgment in favor of Uno-Ven was appropriate.
One who intentionally and improperly interferes with the performance of a contract (except a contract to marry) between another and a third person, by preventing the other from performing the contract or causing his performance to be more expensive or burdensome, is subject to the other for the pecuniary loss resulting to him.
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 Federal District Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Venezuelan medics imbued with pure egoism and meanness...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Venezuelan medics imbued with pure egoism and meanness...
Caracas Federal District president of the Venezuelan College of Medical Doctors, Fernando Bianco says that it is "pure egoism and meanness" on the part of Venezuelan doctors who engaged in a political protest to deny medical services to the impoverished patients in urban slums across the country.
Bianco and Vice President Rangel have been reviewing a series of proposals to re-equip public hospitals and clinics and to deal with issues such as the absence of a collective wage agreement for medical staff and accumulated wage payments to Social Security staff.
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 CARLOS SOSA RODRIGUEZ - 18th Session   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1949 he was appointed Controller-General of the Venezuelan Government, and in 1950, he was named Venezuela s ambassador to the United Kingdom, a post he held until 1952.
Sosa Rodriguez served us leader of the Venezuelan delegation to the thirteen, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth regular session of the general Assembly, and to the third emergency special session of the Assembly in 1958 and, the third special session of the Assembly in 1961.
Sosa Rodriguez also served tin the representative of Venezuela to the twenty-ninth and thirty-first; regular sessions, of the Economic and Social Council In 1960 and 1961, and as representative of Venezuela to the Security Council in 1969, serving as President of the Council during the month of March.
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 Caracas - Capital District (Venezuela)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The CAPITAL DISTRICT: According to the "Bolivarian Constitution of Venezuela" (Article 16) recently approved, it is implicatly abolished the "Federal District" by the creation of the CAPITAL DISTRICT formed by the same Municipalities which were in the FD.
Miranda State and the Federal district are two separate, distinct, unique entities; this makes the name (and even the entire law) of the Metropolitan District utterly wrong!!
Caracas has four mayors: the Mayor of Municipio Libertador (a.k.a mayor of Caracas; being the mayor of the Federal District); the mayor of Municipio Chacao (both the mayor and the municipio have a flag), the Mayor of Municipio Baruta, and the Mayor of Municipio Petare.
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