The Judical System
Name the 3 different branches of government
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
A civil claim
What is a wrong against an individual?
In the legal sense, statements of the laws themselves.
What is a legal primary source?
Ways to avoid litigation, and include the techniques of negotiation, mediation, conciliation, and arbitration.
What is Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)?
An action prohibited by law
What is a crime?
Fraud is an example of this type of law
What is criminal law?
The First Document filed in a lawsuit
What is a Complaint?
When something is made or done according to particular rules or standards.
Negotation
What is the process of discussing the case with the opposing attorney in an attempt to reach an outcome that is beneficial to both parties?
The most serious crime category
What is a felony?
What is substantive law?
After a defendant receives a complaint and a summons, the defendant files this.
What is an answer?
FOIA stands for this
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
A form of alternative dispute resolution that uses a neutral third party to act as a facilitator.
What is meditation?
Penalties are the least severe in this crime category
What is an Infraction?
This type of law can include both substantive and procedural aspects
What is administrative law?
Rights given at the time of custody that have been handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
What are Miranda rights?
A procedural request for the judge or judges to dismiss a case
What is a Motion to Dismiss?
Conciliation
What is a form of alternative dispute resolution that allows a third party to speak with the aggrieved parties together and separately?
Non-violent, financial crime committed in a business context.
What is a white-collar crime?
The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) was created by this man
Who is President Nixon?
When the judge asks the defendant to speak on his or her own behalf, it is a way to lessen the severity of the sentencing.
What is allocution?
Laws passed by legislatures and administrative agencies
What is a Statue?
A type of private trial where the two parties present their cases to an arbitrator rather than a judge.
What is arbitration?
Embezzlement
What is the abuse of a position of trusted access to someone else's resources to obtain those resources for oneself?