The party against whom an action or lawsuit is brought.
What is Defendant?
100
A statement of the plaintiff and the defendant that detail their facts, allegations, and defenses, which create the issues of the lawsuit.
What are pleadings?
100
the power of the government to take private property for public use for fair compensation
What is eminent domain?
100
What is a serious crime; may be punished by more than one year in prison?
Felony
200
The fundamental law of a nation.
What is Constitution?
200
a "new trial"
What is Trial de novo?
200
The initial pleading by the plaintiff in a civil action that informs the defendant of the material facts on which the plaintiff basis the lawsuit.
What is a complaint?
200
constitutional limitation requiring that a person not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without a fair just hearing?
What is due process?
200
What is less serious crime, punished by a fine or one year or less in prison?
Misdemeanor
300
The three branches of Government?
What are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
300
The party who initiates a lawsuit.
What is Plaintiff?
300
A body of people selected to hear the evidence in a case presented in court and who are given the power to apply the law to the facts established at trial in determining which party prevails in the matter in dispute, whether civil or criminal.
What is a Jury?
300
is the part of the U.S. Constitution that gives Congress the authority to use various powers to execute its functions under the Constitution?
Necessary and proper clause.
300
What is a non-violent crime committed by corporations or individuals?
"white-collar crime"
400
A law made and applied by judges as they resolve deisputes among private parties.
What is common law?
400
the right of a court or other body to hear a case and render a judgment.
What is jurisdiction?
400
a form of alternative dispute resolution in which a third party is hired by parties to a dispute with the intent to persuade them to settle their dispute
What is Mediation?
400
What is the carrying on of commercial activity that affects business in more than one state?
Interstate commerce
400
What are acts that need not be planned; may be so extreme that it is punishable as a crime?
Criminial Negligence
500
Public and Private Law
What are relationships between members of society and businesses?
500
the process through which a court notifies and compels a defendant to a lawsuit to appear and answer a complaint.
What is Summons?
500
An opinion written by one or more appellate judges or justices explaining why they disagree with the decision of the majority of the court in a given case.
What is Dissenting opinion?
500
What is under the Fourth Amendment, as interpreted by the courts, evidence that has been gathered in violation of the search-and-seizure rules that cannot be used against a defendant at trial?
Exclusionary rule
500
What is a law designed to attack organized criminal activity by prosecuting persons who participate or conspire to participate in racketeering?