Johnson v. Eisentrager
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johnson-v-eisentrager-169-13332504
title:
Johnson v. Eisentrager
text:
Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763 (1950), was a major decision of the US Supreme Court, where it decided that US courts had no jurisdiction over German war criminals held in a US-administered prison in Germany. The prisoners had at no time been on American sovereign territory. This decision was weakened by the Court's ruling in Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky (1973), when the court found that the key to jurisdiction was whether the Court could process service to the custodia
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1950 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_v._Eisentrager
date created:
2005-03-18T18:56:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T15:34:00Z
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