Law of the United States

The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties. ^[1]

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United States federal law

Act of Congress

An act of Congress is a statute enacted by the United States Congress.

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Administrative Procedure Act

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA),, is the United States federal statute that governs the way in which administrative agencies of the federal government of the United States may propose and establish regulations, and it grants U.S. federal courts oversight over all agency actions.

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Admission to the bar in the United States

Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction.

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Alex Kozinski

Alex Kozinski (born July 23, 1950) is a Romanian-American jurist and lawyer who was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1985 to 2017.

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Alimony

Alimony, also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spouse maintenance (Australia), is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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American rule (attorney's fees)

The American rule (capitalized as American Rule in some U.S. states) is the default legal rule in the United States controlling assessment of attorneys' fees arising out of litigation.

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Anton-Hermann Chroust

Anton-Hermann Chroust (29 January 1907 – January 1982) was a German-American jurist, philosopher and historian, from 1946 to 1972, professor of law, philosophy, and history, at the University of Notre Dame.

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Antonin Scalia

Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.

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Arbitration

Arbitration is a formal method of dispute resolution involving a neutral third party who makes a binding decision.

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Article Three of the United States Constitution

Article Three of the United States Constitution establishes the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government.

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Attorneys in the United States

An attorney at law (or counsellor-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in court on the retainer of clients.

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Aviation in the United States

The United States has an extensive air transportation network.

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Bill of attainder

A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder, writ of attainder, or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and providing for a punishment, often without a trial.

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Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents

Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), was a case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that an implied cause of action existed for an individual whose Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizures had been violated by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

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Black's Law Dictionary

Black's Law Dictionary is the most frequently used legal dictionary in the United States.

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British America

British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783.

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Capital punishment in the United States

In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa.

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Case law

Case law, also used interchangeably with common law, is a law that is based on precedents, that is the judicial decisions from previous cases, rather than law based on constitutions, statutes, or regulations.

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Case or Controversy Clause

The Supreme Court of the United States has interpreted the Case or Controversy Clause of Article III of the United States Constitution (found in Art. III, Section 2, Clause 1) as embodying two distinct limitations on exercise of judicial review: a bar on the issuance of advisory opinions, and a requirement that parties must have standing.

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Certiorari

In law, certiorari is a court process to seek judicial review of a decision of a lower court or government agency.

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Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

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Child support

Child support (or child maintenance) is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child (State or parent, caregiver, guardian) following the end of a marriage or other similar relationship.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Civil law (legal system)

Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world.

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Civil liberties

Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process.

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Civil procedure

Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and regulations along with some standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits (as opposed to procedures in criminal law matters).

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Class action

A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group.

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Code of Federal Regulations

In the law of the United States, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent regulations promulgated by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government of the United States. Law of the United States and code of Federal Regulations are united States federal law.

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Codification (law)

In law, codification is the process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction in certain areas, usually by subject, forming a legal code, i.e. a codex (book) of law.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Commerce Clause

The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).

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Common carrier

A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law systems,Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000 "Civil-law public carrier" from "carriage of goods" usually called simply a carrier) is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Communications in the United States

Communications in the United States include extensive industries and distribution networks in print and telecommunication.

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Constitution of California

The Constitution of California (Constitución de California) is the primary organizing law for the U.S. state of California, describing the duties, powers, structures and functions of the government of California.

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Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.

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Constitutional law of the United States

The constitutional law of the United States is the body of law governing the interpretation and implementation of the United States Constitution.

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Constitutionality

In constitutional law, constitutionality is said to be the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution; the status of a law, a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or set forth in the applicable constitution.

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Contract

A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties.

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Cooper v. Aaron

Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that denied the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas the right to delay racial desegregation for 30months.

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Copyright law of the United States

The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship".

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Criminal law

Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.

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Criminal procedure

Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law.

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Customs duties in the United States

The United States imposes tariffs (customs duties) on imports of goods.

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David Dudley Field II

David Dudley Field II (February 13, 1805April 13, 1894) was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure.

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Delaware Court of Chancery

The Delaware Court of Chancery is a court of equity in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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Department of motor vehicles

A department of motor vehicles (DMV) is a government agency that administers motor vehicle registration and driver licensing.

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Deposition (law)

A deposition in the law of the United States, or examination for discovery in the law of Canada, involves the taking of sworn, out-of-court oral testimony of a witness that may be reduced to a written transcript for later use in court or for discovery purposes.

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Dickerson v. United States

Dickerson v. United States, 530 U.S. 428 (2000), upheld the requirement that the Miranda warning be read to criminal suspects and struck down a federal statute that purported to overrule Miranda v. Arizona (1966).

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Discovery (law)

Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a phase of pretrial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from other parties by means of methods of discovery such as interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions and depositions.

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Disneyland

Disneyland is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.

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Diversity jurisdiction

In the law of the United States, diversity jurisdiction is a form of subject-matter jurisdiction that gives United States federal courts the power to hear lawsuits that do not involve a federal question.

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Division of property

Division of property, also known as equitable distribution, is a judicial division of property rights and obligations between spouses during divorce.

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Divorce in the United States

Divorce in the United States is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the marriage existing between two persons.

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Drunk driving

Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English) is the act of driving under the influence of alcohol.

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Dudgeon v United Kingdom

Dudgeon v United Kingdom (1981) was a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case, which held that Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which criminalised male homosexual acts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, breached the defendant's rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English land law

English land law is the law of real property in England and Wales.

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English law

English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures.

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English rule (attorney's fees)

In the field of law and economics, the English rule is a rule controlling assessment of lawyers' fees arising out of litigation.

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Equity (law)

In the field of jurisprudence, equity is the particular body of law, developed in the English Court of Chancery, with the general purpose of providing legal remedies for cases wherein the common law is inflexible and cannot fairly resolve the disputed legal matter.

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Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins

Erie Railroad Co.

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Exclusionary rule

In the United States, the exclusionary rule is a legal rule, based on constitutional law, that prevents evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights from being used in a court of law.

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Executive (government)

The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.

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Family law

Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations.

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Federal Arbitration Act

The United States Arbitration Act (codified at), more commonly referred to as the Federal Arbitration Act or FAA, is an act of Congress that provides for non-judicial facilitation of private dispute resolution through arbitration.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Federal judiciary of the United States

The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government. Law of the United States and federal judiciary of the United States are united States federal law.

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Federal Register

The Federal Register (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices.

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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (officially abbreviated Fed. R. Civ. P.; colloquially FRCP) govern civil procedure in United States district courts.

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Federalism in the United States

In the United States, federalism is the constitutional division of power between U.S. state governments and the federal government of the United States.

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Felony

A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious.

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Fine (penalty)

A fine or mulct (the latter synonym typically used in civil law) is a penalty of money that a court of law or other authority decides has to be paid as punishment for a crime or other offense.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

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Florida State University Law Review

The Florida State University Law Review is the flagship law review at the Florida State University College of Law.

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Foreign relations of the United States

The United States has formal diplomatic relations with most nations.

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Founding Fathers of the United States

The Founding Fathers of the United States, commonly referred to as the Founding Fathers, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for the new nation.

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Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Fraudulent Conveyances Act 1571

The Fraudulent Conveyances Act 1571 (13 Eliz. 1. c. 5), also known as the Statute of 13 Elizabeth, was an Act of Parliament in England, which laid the foundations for fraudulent transactions to be unwound when a person had gone insolvent or bankrupt.

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Frederick Schauer

Frederick Schauer (born January 15, 1946) is an American legal scholar who serves as David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Government agency

A government agency or 1 Branches, state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administration.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Gridlock (politics)

In politics, gridlock or deadlock or political stalemate is a situation when there is difficulty passing laws that satisfy the needs of the people.

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Gun laws in the United States by state

Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Head Money Cases

The Head Money Cases, 112 U.S. 580 (1884), also referred to as Edye v. Robertson, were a group of cases decided together by the United States Supreme Court.

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Heath v. Alabama

Heath v. Alabama, 474 U.S. 82 (1985), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that, because of the doctrine of "dual sovereignty" (the concept that the United States and each state possess sovereignty – a consequence of federalism), the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution does not prohibit one state from prosecuting and punishing somebody for an act of which they had already been convicted of and sentenced for in another state.

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Herbert Hovenkamp

Herbert Hovenkamp (born 1948) is an American legal scholar serving as James G. Dinan University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Imprisonment

Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will.

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Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.

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Insurance in the United States

Insurance in the United States refers to the market for risk in the United States, the world's largest insurance market by premium volume.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.

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Judiciary Act

The term Judiciary Act may refer to any of several statutes relating to the organization of national court systems.

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Jury

A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.

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Kermit L. Hall

Kermit Lance Hall (August 31, 1944 – August 13, 2006) was a noted legal historian and university president.

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Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.

Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company, 313 U.S. 487 (1941), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court applied the choice-of-law principles of Erie Railroad v. Tompkins to conflicts between laws of different states for cases sitting in federal court on diversity jurisdiction.

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Ku Klux Klan Act

The Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, Third Ku Klux Klan Act, Civil Rights Act of 1871, or Force Act of 1871, is an Act of the United States Congress that was intended to combat the paramilitary vigilantism of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Labour law

Labour laws (also spelled as labor laws), labour code or employment laws are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions, and the government.

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Law

Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

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Law of Louisiana

Law in the state of Louisiana is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the United States.

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Law of Puerto Rico

The legal system of Puerto Rico is a mix of the civil law and the common law systems.

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Law of the Northern Mariana Islands

The law of the Northern Mariana Islands includes.

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Law school in the United States

A law school in the United States is an educational institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree.

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Lawrence M. Friedman

Lawrence Meir Friedman (born April 2, 1930) is an American law professor, historian of American legal history, and author of nonfiction and fiction books.

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Lawrence v. Texas

Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional.

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Legal education in the United States

Legal education in the United States generally refers to a graduate degree, the completion of which makes a graduate eligible to sit for an examination for a license to practice as a Lawyer.

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Legal fiction

A legal fiction is a construct used in the law where a thing is taken to be true, which is not in fact true, in order to achieve an outcome.

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Legal research in the United States

Legal research is the process of identifying and retrieving information to support legal arguments and decisions.

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List of courts of the United States

The courts of the United States are closely linked hierarchical systems of courts at the federal and state levels.

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List of federal agencies in the United States

Legislative definitions of an agency of the federal government of the United States are varied, and even contradictory.

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List of national legal systems

The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four basic systems: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these.

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List of uniform acts (United States)

This is a list of uniform acts.

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List of United States federal legislation

This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation.

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Lists of United States Supreme Court cases

This page serves as an index of lists of United States Supreme Court cases.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

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Majority opinion

In law, a majority opinion is a judicial opinion agreed to by more than half of the members of a court.

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Marbury v. Madison

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that established the principle of judicial review, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes they find to violate the Constitution of the United States.

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McCarran–Ferguson Act

The McCarran–Ferguson Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1011-1015, is a United States federal law that exempts the business of insurance from most federal regulation, including federal antitrust laws to a limited extent.

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Medication

A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Metropolitan statistical area

In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region.

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Michael Gerhardt

Michael J. Gerhardt is the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill.

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Michigan Territory

The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan.

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Miranda warning

In the United States, the Miranda warning is a type of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) advising them of their right to silence and, in effect, protection from self-incrimination; that is, their right to refuse to answer questions or provide information to law enforcement or other officials.

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Misdemeanor

A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour elsewhere) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems.

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Motor vehicle

A motor vehicle, also known as a motorized vehicle, automotive vehicle, '''automobile,''' or road vehicle, is a self-propelled land vehicle, commonly wheeled, that does not operate on rails (such as trains or trams) and is used for the transportation of people or cargo.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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My Life in Court

My Life in Court is a 1961 memoir by American trial lawyer Louis Nizer documenting his career in law.

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National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records.

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National Center for State Courts

The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) is an independent, non-profit organization focused on improving the administration of justice in the United States and around the world.

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National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court upheld Congress's power to enact most provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly called Obamacare, and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), including a requirement for most Americans to pay a penalty for forgoing health insurance by 2014.

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Natural law

Natural law (ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a close observation of natural order and human nature, from which values, thought by natural law's proponents to be intrinsic to human nature, can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacted laws of a state or society).

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Negligent infliction of emotional distress

The tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED) is a controversial cause of action, which is available in nearly all U.S. states but is severely constrained and limited in the majority of them.

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No-fault divorce

No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage that does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party.

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Office of the Federal Register

The Office of the Federal Register is an office of the United States government within the National Archives and Records Administration.

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Office of the Law Revision Counsel

The Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives prepares and publishes the United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.

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Originalism

Originalism is a legal theory that bases constitutional, judicial, and statutory interpretation of text on the original understanding at the time of its adoption.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Personal property

Personal property is property that is movable.

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Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court upheld the right to have an abortion as established by the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade (1973) and issued as its "key judgment" the restoration of the undue burden standard when evaluating state-imposed restrictions on that right.

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Plea bargaining in the United States

Plea bargaining in the United States is very common; the vast majority of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than by a jury trial.

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Pleading

In law as practiced in countries that follow the English models, a pleading is a formal written statement of one party's claims or defenses in response to another party's complaint(s) in a civil action.

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Plenary power

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.

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Precedent

Precedent is a principle or rule established in a legal case that becomes authoritative to a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar legal issues or facts.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.

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Privacy laws of the United States

Privacy laws of the United States deal with several different legal concepts.

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Probation

Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender, ordered by the court often in lieu of incarceration.

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Product liability

Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause.

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Property law

Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land) and personal property.

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Property law in the United States

Property law in the United States is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land and buildings) and personal property, including intangible property such as intellectual property.

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Prosecutor

A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system, which is adopted in common law, or inquisitorial system, which is adopted in civil law.

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Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins

Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued on June 9, 1980 which affirmed the decision of the California Supreme Court in a case that arose out of a free speech dispute between the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell, California, and several local high school students (who wished to canvass signatures for a petition against United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379).

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Public policy

Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs.

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Public policy doctrine

In private international law, the public policy doctrine or ordre public (French: "public order") concerns the body of principles that underpin the operation of legal systems in each state.

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Rail transportation in the United States

Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads that also extend into Canada and Mexico.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Real property

In English common law, real property, real estate, immovable property or, solely in the US and Canada, realty, refers to parcels of land and any associated structures which are the property of a person.

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Reception statute

A reception statute is a statutory law adopted as a former British colony becomes independent by which the new nation adopts, or receives, the English common law before its independence to the extent not explicitly rejected by the legislative body or constitution of the new nation.

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Recording (real estate)

The vast majority of states in the United States employ a system of recording legal instruments (otherwise known as deeds registration) that affect the title of real estate as the exclusive means for publicly documenting land titles and interests.

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Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to induce an altered state of consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other casual purpose or pastime.

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Regulation

Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends.

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Restatement (Second) of Contracts

The Restatement (Second) of the Law of Contracts is a legal treatise from the second series of the Restatements of the Law, and seeks to inform judges and lawyers about general principles of contract common law.

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Restitution and unjust enrichment

Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery.

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Roger J. Traynor

Roger John Traynor (February 12, 1900 – May 14, 1983) was the 23rd Chief Justice of California (1964–1970) and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1940 to 1964.

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Rule of law

The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.

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Rulemaking

In administrative law, rulemaking is the process that executive and independent agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations.

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Session laws

Session laws are the collection of statutes enacted by a legislature during a single session of that legislature, often published following the end of the session as a bound volume.

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Skidmore v. Swift & Co.

Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134 (1944), is a United States Supreme Court decision holding that an administrative agency's interpretative rules deserve deference according to their persuasiveness.

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Slip law

In the United States, a slip law is an individual Act of Congress which is either a public law (Pub.L.) or a private law (Pvt.L.). Slip laws are published as softcover unbound pamphlets, each with its own individual pagination.

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Sovereign

Sovereign is a title that can be applied to the highest leader in various categories.

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Sovereignty

Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.

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Special district (United States)

Special districts (also known as special service districts, special district governments, or limited purpose entities) are independent, special-purpose governmental units that exist separately from local governments such as county, municipal, and township governments, with substantial administrative and fiscal independence.

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State constitutions in the United States

In the United States, each state has its own written constitution.

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State court (United States)

In the United States, a state court has jurisdiction over disputes with some connection to a U.S. state.

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State government

A state government is the government that controls a subdivision of a country in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government.

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State law (United States)

In the United States, state law refers to the law of each separate U.S. state.

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State supreme court

In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state.

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Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.

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Statute of Frauds

The Statute of Frauds (29 Cha. 2. c. 3) (1677) was an act of the Parliament of England.

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Stephen Breyer

Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 until his retirement in 2022.

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Strict liability

In criminal and civil law, strict liability is a standard of liability under which a person is legally responsible for the consequences flowing from an activity even in the absence of fault or criminal intent on the part of the defendant.

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Substantive due process

Substantive due process is a principle in United States constitutional law that allows courts to establish and protect substantive laws and certain fundamental rights from government interference, even if they are unenumerated elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution.

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Summary judgment

In law, a summary judgment, also referred to as judgment as a matter of law or summary disposition, is a judgment entered by a court for one party and against another party summarily, i.e., without a full trial.

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Summary offence

A summary offence or petty offence is a violation in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment (required for an indictable offence).

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Supreme Court of California

The Supreme Court of California is the highest and final court of appeals in the courts of the U.S. state of California.

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Taxing and Spending Clause

The Taxing and Spending Clause (which contains provisions known as the General Welfare Clause and the Uniformity Clause), Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, grants the federal government of the United States its power of taxation.

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Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.

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Three-strikes law

In the United States, habitual offender laws (commonly referred to as three-strikes laws) have been implemented since at least 1952, and are part of the United States Justice Department's Anti-Violence Strategy.

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Title insurance

Title insurance is a form of indemnity insurance, predominantly found in the United States and Canada, that insures against financial loss from defects in title to real property and from the invalidity or unenforceability of mortgage loans.

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Torrens title

Torrens title is a land registration and land transfer system, in which a state creates and maintains a register of land holdings, which serves as the conclusive evidence (termed "indefeasibility") of title of the person recorded on the register as the proprietor (owner), and of all other interests recorded on the register.

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Tort

A tort is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.

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Township

A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision.

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Treaty

A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement concluded by sovereign states in international law.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Unconscionability

Unconscionability (sometimes known as unconscionable dealing/conduct in Australia) is a doctrine in contract law that describes terms that are so extremely unjust, or overwhelmingly one-sided in favor of the party who has the superior bargaining power, that they are contrary to good conscience.

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Uniform Law Commission

The Uniform Law Commission (ULC), also called the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, is a non-profit, American unincorporated association.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States administrative law

United States federal administrative law encompasses statutes, rules, judicial precedents, and executive orders, that together define the extent of powers and responsibilities held by administrative agencies of the United States government, including executive departments and independent agencies.

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United States antitrust law

In the United States, antitrust law is a collection of mostly federal laws that regulate the conduct and organization of businesses in order to promote competition and prevent unjustified monopolies.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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United States Code

The United States Code (formally the Code of Laws of the United States of America) is the official codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States.

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United States courts of appeals

The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary.

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United States district court

The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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United States Government Publishing Office

The United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO or GPO), formerly the United States Government Printing Office, is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States Federal government.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States patent law

The United States is considered to have the most favorable legal regime for inventors and patent owners in the world.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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United States Statutes at Large

The United States Statutes at Large, commonly referred to as the Statutes at Large and abbreviated Stat., are an official record of Acts of Congress and concurrent resolutions passed by the United States Congress.

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United States trademark law

A trademark is a word, phrase, or logo that identifies the source of goods or services.

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United States v. Lopez

United States v. Alfonso D. Lopez, Jr., 514 U.S. 549 (1995), was a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court that struck down the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 (GFSZA) as it was outside of Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce.

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United States v. Virginia

United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the long-standing male-only admission policy of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in a 7–1 decision.

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Warranty

In law, a warranty is an expressed or implied promise or assurance of some kind.

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West (publisher)

West (also known by its original name, West Publishing) is a business owned by Thomson Reuters that publishes legal, business, and regulatory information in print, and on electronic services such as Westlaw.

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William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law.

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Wrongful death claim

Wrongful death claim is a claim against a person who can be held liable for a death.

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