Jurisdictional Quotes

Various jurisdictional and legal issues in Delaware and in New Jersey still need to be resolved before the teens can be moved. - Anthony Faria

These defendants knowingly mishandled hazardous waste both in Pennsylvania and abroad. The message is clear: we will pursue criminals demonstrating such willful disregard for the public's safety and the environment -- even when it crosses jurisdictional lines -- and we will continue the collaborative efforts with international authorities to prosecute these crimes. - Granta Y. Nakayama

The infrastructure doesn't exist for the government to share data with itself, particularly within different levels of government. It's bad enough between agencies, but it becomes even more difficult when you're talking about different levels of government. Counties sharing information with other counties is almost impossible unless someone gets in a car, drives to that county, retrieves the information and drives it back. What the private sector does very well is build the infrastructure which allows that information, which is public, to flow freely across jurisdictional and geographical lines. That's the benefit that the private sector has brought to this process. - James Lee

The first thing to do is to get communications going between the different states. The jurisdictional issues will follow. - Michael Anderson

An extensive two-year study by the University of Maryland examining the effects of racial and jurisdictional factors on the imposition of the death penalty is nearing completion. - Parris Glendening