Civil Law
Regulate and resolve disputes between private individuals, organizations, or entities
What is the primary purpose of civil law?
A deliberate act that causes physical or psychological harm, damage to or loss of property, and is against the law punishable by fines, probation, incrassation, or death.
What is a crime?
Law established by an act of the legislature that is signed by the executive.
What is statutory law?
A branch of public law that governs how the government creates and enforces laws:
What is Administration Law?
A collection of judicial decisions that establish legal principles and precedents for interpreting the law.
What is case law?
By the preponderance of the evidence
what is the burden of proof in a civil case?
A crime for which the potential jail or prison sentence exceeds one year and a crime that is punishable up to 11 months and 29 days
What is a felony and a misdemeanor?
Bill is created, to the House floor for debate, pass by a majority vote in both the House and the Senate and then signed by the President.
How are statutes created?
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
What are some federal agency that creates administrative laws?
Decisions establish a significant new legal principle or concept or otherwise that substantially changes the interpretation of existing law...
What is the significance of landmark cases?
The type of disputes they address, the type of remedies they provide, and the burden of proof required.
What is the difference between civil and criminal law?
Beyond a reasonable doubt
What is the standard of proof required in a criminal trial?
Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is a statutory law at the federal level?
Regulate them, provide licensing requirement's, and hold adjudication hearings to determine legality of their actions.
How do administrative laws affect businesses?
The Constitution
What document serves as the foundation for constitutional law in the United States and Supreme Law of the Land?
The party who initiates the lawsuit by filing a complaint against the defendant.
What is the role of a plaintiff in a civil case?
To protect society from harm by criminal behavior.
Main goal of criminal law.
Courts use this particular "intent" to choose an interpretation that best achieves that purpose.
What is Legislatives' intent?
To resolve disputes between a government agency and an individual or business
What is an Adjudication hearing?
Changing the text of the Constitution, Protecting rights, Limiting the power of the government, Giving Congress the power to enact legislation, Giving Congress the power to enact legislation.
How amendments to the Constitution can impact law?
Where a person commits an act or omission that causes harm to another, resulting in legal liability for the person who caused the harm, and typically allowing the injured party to seek compensation
What is the concept of a Tort?
Latin for guilty mind
What is mens rea?
A rule or guideline established by a government agency to implement and detail the specifics of a statute, essentially providing the "how-to."
What is a regulation?
This refers to the power of a court to examine and potentially overturn decisions made by government agencies, ensuring that those decisions were made legally, fairly, and within the scope of the agency's authority.
What is the concept of "judicial review" in administrative law.
Statutory interpretation and filling in gaps
How can case law change statutory law?