• The Extradition Clause or Interstate Rendition Clause of the United States Constitution is Article IV, Section 2, Clause 2, which provides for the extradition...
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    states in a discriminatory manner. The Extradition Clause requires that fugitives from justice be extradited on the demand of executive authority of...
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  • In the United States, extradition law is a collection of federal laws that regulate extradition, the formal process by which a fugitive found in the United...
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    requested state may arrest the fugitive and subject them to its extradition process. The extradition procedures to which the fugitive will be subjected are dependent...
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    judgments, and before 1865, slavery status. Pursuant to the Extradition Clause, a state must extradite people located there who have fled charges of "treason...
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  • was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the Extradition Clause allows a state to kidnap a fugitive residing in another state and...
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  • Puerto Rico v. Branstad (category Extradition Clause case law)
    Congress also legislated the Extradition Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3182, which effectively reads the same as the Extradition Clause except to include territories...
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    on proof-of-evidence in favour of extradition and the non-admissibility of additional evidence against extradition. It argued that the HK government should...
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  • nonappearance was the result of his extradition to Maine—an intervening "act of law" under the Extradition Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme...
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    constitutions or statutes similar to those in the U.S. Constitution. The Extradition Clause specifically defines treason as an extraditable offense. Thomas Jefferson...
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    Judiciary Act of 1789 and whether the governor's warrant violated the Extradition Clause of Article IV, section 2 of the Constitution, which gave the federal...
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  • to resolve the issue by making peace in Year 21 of Ramesses II. An extradition clause was also included in the treaty. Muršili III soon thereafter disappears...
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  • whole—which includes the Privileges and Immunities Clause, the Extradition Clause, and the Full Faith and Credit Clause—has been described as the "interstate comity"...
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  • uncertainty may arise from the Extradition Clause. The text of the Extradition Clause is found in Article IV, Section 2, Clause 2: A Person charged in any...
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    Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 (category Extradition in the United States)
    to also give effect to the Extradition Clause (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 2). The Constitution's Fugitive Slave Clause guaranteed a right for a slaveholder...
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  • (1978). Commerce Clause Ex post facto Federal tax State import/export tax Article One courts Compensation Clause Extradition Clause Equal footing doctrine...
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  • Rico Examining Board v. Flores de Otero Puerto Rico v. Branstad – Extradition Clause was expressly extended by the U.S. Supreme Court to Puerto Rico. 442...
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  • state of Florida would not assist with any extradition of Trump to New York. However, under the Extradition Clause of Article IV of the U.S. Constitution...
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  • people. When the extradition clause of the Webster–Ashburton Treaty was finally negotiated, enslaved people were protected from extradition to their former...
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  • Prigg v. Pennsylvania (category Supremacy Clause case law)
    states. Article IV, Section 2 contained two clauses (the Extradition Clause and the Fugitive Slave Clause) related to the legality of fleeing justice...
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  • Taney, referencing the Contract Clause, wrote an opinion which found that states had no power under it to honor an extradition request from a foreign government...
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  • the matter, and so will apply for extradition of the defendant(s). In this situation the state requesting extradition will have priority. The obligation...
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  • Political offence exception (category Extradition)
    compared to the concept of extradition itself, and indeed constitutes an almost complete reversal of the original purpose of extradition. The earliest treaties...
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    Slave Act gave effect to the Constitution's Fugitive Slave Clause and Extradition Clause, the Act was passed overwhelmingly in Congress (e.g. the vote...
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  • Clause in the United States Constitution, also known as either the Slave Clause or the Fugitives From Labor Clause, is Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3...
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  • The Treaty Clause of the United States Constitution (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2) establishes the procedure for ratifying international agreements...
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    mandamus petition, holding that—even though the Extradition Clause of the Constitution obliged states to extradite criminals to other states for trial—this provision...
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  • interdiction, and extradition clauses. Colombia subsequently withdrew some of its reservations, most notably a reservation on extradition. Maritime boundary...
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    Embassy, asked for Richard O'Dwyer to be extradited to the U.S. under the Extradition Act 2003. The extradition request was made after the Department of...
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