Domestic Violence Law
The person seeking an order of protection
What is a petitioner?
Women gained this right in 1920.
What is women's suffrage (voting)?
This amendment protects you against searches of your person or property without the proper warrant.
What is the 4th amendment?
The person who someone seeks an order of protection against.
What is a respondent?
Unmarried women are legally allowed to take this medication in 1972.
What is birth control?
This amendment gives you the right to remain silent, meaning you cannot be forced to incriminate yourself.
What is the 5th amendment?
This law was passed in Illinois in 1981.
What is the Illinois Domestic Violence Act?
This Act guaranteed that everyone is paid the same for the same job in 1963.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
This type of warrant is signed by a judge and authorizes the arrest of undocumented immigrants.
What is a judicial warrant?
The failure to exercise that degree of care toward a high-risk adult with disabilities or a child which a reasonable person would exercise.
What is Neglect?
What is jury duty?
This type of warrant is NOT signed by a judge and is not a valid document to authorize the arrest of undocumented immigrants.
What is an administrative warrant?