Soter, Sotas, and Dioscorus before the Governor: The First Authentic Court Record of a Roman Trial of Christians?

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-24
Author(s):  
Sabine Huebner
Keyword(s):  
Court Record

The Case for Muslim Constitutional Interpretive Activity

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Kathleen Moore
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Racial Hatred ◽  
Special Diet ◽  
Court Record ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
Islamic Faith ◽  
The Right

Muslim Involvement: The Court Record 1.Prisoners' RightsCan we rely upon the courts to protect Islam and Muslims from discriminatory treatment? Have the courts considered Islam to be a 'religion' worthy of constitutional protection? The issue of First Amendment protection of Muslim beliefs and practices has arisen most often in cases brought by African-American Muslims who are incarcerated. In fact, the area of law to which Muslims have made their most substantial contribution to date is the area of prisoners' rights litigation. African-American Muslim inmates have been responsible for establishing prisoners' constitutional rights to worship. Cases brought by Muslims have established that prisoners have the right to assemble for religious services; to consult a cleric of their faith; to possess religious publications and to subscribe to religious literature; to wear unobstrusive religious symbols such as medallions; to have prepared a special diet required by their religion; and to correspond with their spiritual leaders. The court record demonstrates that Muslim inmates' religious liberty claims, challenging prison regulations that impinge on the free exercise of the Islamic faith, have been accepted only under certain circumstances. In brief, the responsiveness of the courts to Muslim inmates' claims has turned on a number of factors including: (1) the issue of equality of treatment of all religious groups in prison; (2) the courts' reticence to reverse the decisions of prison officials; (3) the degree to which the inmates' challenges would undermine the fundamental interests of the state (e.g. in prison security and administrative efficiency); and (4) the showing that Islam is parallel in significant ways to the conventional Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths.Constitutional protection of Islamic practices in prison and elsewhere, however, has not been automatic. Many Muslim organizations, the Nation of Islam in particular, have been treated as cults, or suspect and dangerous groups, due in part to the perception that Muslims teach racial hatred, and have not been regarded in the same respect as 'mainline' religious groups. It has been argued before the courts that Muslim doctrine contains political aspirations and economic goals as well as racial prejudice and should be suppressed in the interest of society. The gist of this argument is that certain Muslim groups are primarily political and not religious associations and thus ...

Legal Writing, Civil Litigation, and Agents in the 18th-Century Spanish Imperial World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Premo
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Civil Litigation ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Legal Writing ◽  
Court Record ◽  
The Law ◽  
Civil Cases

This purpose of this essay is to reveal the diversity of writers responsible for creating the texts of lawsuits in the Spanish empire. It peeks behind the curtain of pages in civil complaints in an attempt to figure out how legal papers actually made it into the court record and who was doing their writing. While historians have recently thrown a spotlight on various official writers, from notaries to native procurators, in fact unidentified, unofficial writers penned quite a few petitions in civil suits. Knowing who wrote the filings in civil cases has a bearing on our understanding of Spanish imperial subjects, their interactions with the law, and ultimately how much of a hand they had in making their own historical record.

TESTEMUNHOS DE VIOLáŠNCIA NUM REGISTRO JUDICIAL DURANTE A OCUPAÇÃO COLONIAL NO NORTE DE MOá‡AMBIQUE

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
FERNANDA DO NASCIMENTO THOMAZ
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Process ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Court Record ◽  
Process Context

Em 1907, vários africanos testemunharam contra um administrador colonial, no Juá­zo de Direto de Cabo Delgado, norte de Moçambique. O administrador colonial foi acusado de agredir e assassinar muitas pessoas na circunscrição do Tungue. Neste texto, pretende-se analisar um processo criminal, como fonte dialógica e intensiva para o historiador, no intuito de perceber as vozes e as ações dos agredidos, bem como os aspectos fundamentais de produção desse registro judicial, no contexto do processo de ocupação colonial, no extremo norte de Moçambique. Palavras-chave: Moçambique. Ocupação colonial. Registro judicial. Testemunhos.  VIOLENCE TESTIMONIES IN A COURT RECORD DURING THE COLONIAL OCCUPATION IN NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE Abstract: In 1907, several African witnessed against a colonial administrator at the Court of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique. The colonial administrator was accused of the assault and murder many people in the Tungue circumscription. In this paper, we intend to analyze a criminal process as a dialogical and intensive source for the historian, in order to realize the voices and actions of the beaten and the fundamental aspects of production of that court record in the colonial occupation process context in the extreme northern Mozambique. Keywords: Mozambique. Colonial occupation. Court records. Testimonies.  TESTIGOS DE VIOLENCIA EN UN RÉGIMEN JUDICIAL DURANTE LA OCUPACIÓN COLONIAL EN EL NORTE DE MOZAMBIQUEResumen: En 1907, varios africanos fueron testigos contra un administrador colonial en el Juicio de Derecho de Cabo Delgado, norte de Mozambique. El administrador colonial fue acusado de agredir yasesinar muchas personas en la circunscripción del Tungue. En este texto, se pretende analizar el proceso criminal como fuente dialógica e intensiva para el historiador, con el intuito de percibir lasvoces y las acciones de los agredidos, asá­ como los aspectos fundamentales de producción delregistro judicial en el contexto del proceso de ocupación colonial en el extremo norte de Mozambique. Palabras clave: Mozambique. Ocupación colonial. Registro judicial. Testigos.  

scholarly journals Patterns of Forensic Practice

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-163
Author(s):  
Harold Merskey
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
New England ◽  
Practice Patterns ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Pain Medicine ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Forensic Practice ◽  
Court Record

Forensic pain medicine has provided an interesting survey of medico-legal practice patterns among pain specialists (1). Members of the New England Pain Association responded to a 20-item questionnaire addressing specific areas of practice including the completion of disability forms, letters, reports to lawyers, depositions, testimony in court, record reviews and return-to-work forms. Respondents were asked to distinguish the medico-legal activities for their patients from those that occurred for third parties. The participants who responded included pain specialists from a range of disciplines represented by the membership of this regional pain society. The response rate was 67% with a total of 144 surveys returned.

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