Dole said that the court never obtained jurisdiction over it and that the law violated the Nicaraguan Constitution.

The suit can be brought in any forum if the local federal district court can properly obtain personal jurisdiction over the alleged infringer.

This enabled Epstein to attach it in a quasi-in rem action and obtain jurisdiction over Balk.

The Jesuit managed to obtain jurisdiction over the trading city of Nagasaki.

Such government officials would be subject to prosecution in any state of the world that obtained jurisdiction over them for the commission of an international crime without limitation of time.

First, due to UIFSA, California had obtained jurisdiction.

The nationality principle holds that the government of a citizen can obtain jurisdiction over its citizen even when that citizen is abroad.

The other main avenue for the court of justice to obtain jurisdiction is on a treaty-by-treaty basis.

Black further noted that a 1956 statute recognized the continued existence of the reservation, and a 1953 statute explained how the state could obtain jurisdiction once certain conditions were met.

Newfoundland obtained jurisdiction over Labrador in a 1927 ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.