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...pick, train and direct the officers, rent them to the companies in time of disturbance. Civil libertarians pointed out that under this plan all the taxpayers would have to pay for the officers until they were called out by an industrial concern; that persons injured by them would have redress against neither State nor private company, that the establishment of such a system would put the commonwealth in the position of merchandising police protection...
Individuals who hold the repudiated bonds however, are without redress, for the 11th Amendment prevents them from bringing suit against the debtor State. An ingenious writer in Foreign Affairs for April. 1928, suggested that the British Government acquire the bonds held by British subjects, and that the U. S. permit them to be applied toward the payment of the British debt...
...Soviet Union; 2) German courts cannot hold that an act committed in Russia is criminal if it is not criminal in Russia; 3) Under Soviet law the act of bigamy is not criminal, though if a man takes a second wife either she or the first may demand redress by bringing suit to have one of the marriages declared invalid...
...raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
...held in the U. S. as evidence of contempt of court. Circumstances: In 1921, the Curtiss Company won an injunction restraining Handley Page "henceforth and forever" from importing any aviation products to the U. S., because the English company was using certain Curtiss devices. In England Curtiss had no redress. But they could keep Handley Page out of the U. S. The revival of their injunction was a Curtiss move to prove that Handley Page was prosecuting the $300,000 lawsuit without "clean hands." Probable outcome: an exchange of patents...