{"id":14493,"date":"2018-03-01T08:27:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14493"},"modified":"2018-03-01T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:27:57","slug":"word-of-the-day-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/01\/word-of-the-day-326\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comity<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The legal principle that political entities (such as states, nations, or courts from different jurisdictions) will mutually recognize each other\u2019s legislative, executive, and judicial acts. The underlying notion is that different jurisdictions will reciprocate each other\u2019s judgments out of deference, mutuality, and respect.<\/p>\n

In Constitutional law, the Comity Clause refers to Article IV, \u00a7 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution (also known as the Privileges and Immunities Clause), which ensures that \u201cThe Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.\u201d\u00a0[Wex Legal Dictionary<\/b><\/a>]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Analysis of Microsoft-Ireland Supreme Court Oral Argument<\/i><\/a>,” Andrew Keane Woods,\u00a0Lawfare<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

I would be surprised if the justices divide along ideological lines. \u00a0Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed most persuaded by Microsoft\u2019s position, and Justice Neil Gorsuch expressed some sympathy too\u2014suggesting that the government\u2019s position was to \u201cignore\u201d the extraterritorial aspects of the case. But Justice Stephen Breyer may be inclined to rule the other way.\u00a0 He suggested that magistrate judges ought to be able to issue warrants for foreign-held data as long as they take account of comity concerns\u2014factors like whether another state has a legitimate interest in the data\u2019s disclosure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comity: The legal principle that political entities (such as states, nations, or courts from different jurisdictions) will mutually recognize each other\u2019s legislative, executive, and judicial acts. The underlying notion is that different jurisdictions will reciprocate each other\u2019s judgments out of deference, mutuality, and respect. In Constitutional law, the Comity Clause \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14494,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions\/14494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}