Tort Law
A wrong committed by one person against another.
What is a Tort?
This crime targets harassment against people of a different social class or race
What is a hate crime?
The Amendment that covers free speech
What is the First Amendment?
The highest court in most states.
A twelve person group of impartial peers.
What is a Jury?
Wrongful damage or interference of property.
What is Trespassing?
Violence within a family.
What is Domestic Violence?
This Amendment was later repealed by a later Amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The power and authority given to a court to make a case an give a judgement.
What is Jurisdiction?
To observe the testimonies and evidence in a trial and then to render a verdict.
What is the Jury's Job?
Unintentional injury/damage to another.
What is an Unintentional Tort?
The act of purposefully igniting a building.
What is Arson?
The first Ten Amendments
What is the Bill of RIghts?
civil trials start with this
what are pleadings
The group of jurors summoned by the court.
What is a Jury Pool?
The duty to not violate the rights of others.
What is Duty of Care?
Moving money through a complex system of accounts to cover the origin.
What is Money Laundering?
The Amendment that changes the Election of Presidents and Vice presidents.
What is the 12th Amendment?
The legal standard for an officer to obtain a warrant or as an exception for a warrant.
What is Probable Cause?
If a juror shows bias.
Why can a juror be removed?
When the Plaintiff knew of the risks and continued.
What is Assumption of risk?
Creating Counterfeit versions of objects with financial value such as currency or art.
What is Forgery?
This Amendment was ratified in 1951
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The legal standard for arrests and warrants based on specific facts with rational inferences.
What is Reasonable Suspicion?
If the juror has health illness, disability, or other hardships.
What can excuse someone from jury duty?