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| Abortion |
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Campaign issues | Roe v. Wade |
An abortion is the removal or expulsion of a mammalian embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced. Abortion as a term most...
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| Marriage |
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Marriage/union type | Loving v. Virginia |
Marriage is a personal union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock.
Marriage is an institution in...
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| Race |
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Loving v. Virginia |
The term race or racial group usually refers to the concept of dividing human into population or group on the basis of various sets of characteristics. The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible trait (especially skin color,...
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| Privacy | Quotation Subject | Roe v. Wade |
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but...
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| Search and seizure |
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California v. Greenwood |
Search and seizure is a legal procedure used in many common law countries whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to...
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| Waste |
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Quotation Subject | California v. Greenwood |
Waste, is an unwanted or undesired material or substance. It is also referred to as rubbish, trash, garbage, or junk depending upon the type of material and the regional terminology. In living organisms, waste relates to unwanted substances or...
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| Natural environment |
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Charitable field | Commonwealth v Tasmania |
The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a terminology that is comprised of all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth or some region thereof.
The terminology and concept of what comprises the...
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| Franklin Dam |
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Commonwealth v Tasmania |
The Franklin Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia that was never constructed.
It was proposed for the purposes of hydroelectricity. This would have subsequently impacted upon the...
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| Trademark | Microsoft vs. Lindows |
A trademark or trade mark (represented by the symbol ™) or mark is a distinctive sign or indicator of some kind which is used by an individual, business organization or other legal entity to identify uniquely the source of its product and/or...
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| Native title | Mabo v Queensland |
Native title is a concept in the law of Australia that recognises in certain cases there was and is a continued beneficial legal interest in land held by local indigenous Australians which survived the acquisition of title to the land by the Crown...
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| Land rights | Mabo v Queensland |
Land rights are those property rights that pertain to real estate land.
Because land is a limited resource and property rights include the right to exclude others, land rights are a form of monopoly. Those without land rights must enter into land...
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| Religion |
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Film subject | Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses v Commonwealth |
A religion is a set of tenet and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or...
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| Election |
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Quotation Subject | Ray v. Blair |
An election is a decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office. This is the usual mechanism by which modern democracy fills offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for...
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| Art Subject | Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth | |||
| Slander and libel | McLibel case |
In law, defamation (also called calumny, libel, slander, and vilification) is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or...
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| McDonald's |
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Company | McLibel case |
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurant, serving nearly 47 million customers daily. McDonald's primarily sells hamburger, cheeseburger, chicken products, French fries, breakfast items, soft drink, milkshake and...
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| Eminent domain |
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Kohl v United States |
Eminent domain (United States), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia) or expropriation (South Africa and Canada) in common law legal systems is the inherent power of the state to...
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| Campaign advertising | Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth |
In politics, campaign advertising is the use of paid media (newspapers, radio, television, etc.) to influence the decisions made for and by groups. These ads are designed by political consultants and the campaign's staff.
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| Racial segregation |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
Racial segregation separation of different racial group in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Segregation may...
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| Equal opportunity | Brown v. Board of Education |
Equal opportunity is a term which has differing definitions and there is no consensus as to the precise meaning. Some use it as a descriptive term for an approach intended to provide a certain social environment in which people are not excluded from...
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| Freedom of speech |
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Activism issue | Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization |
Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship or limitation. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes used to denote not only freedom of verbal speech but any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or...
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| Freedom of religion |
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A.C., et al. v. Director of Child and Family Services |
Freedom of religion is the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. It is generally recognized to also include the freedom to change religion or not...
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| Plame affair | United States v. Libby |
The phrase Plame Affair (also known as the CIA leak scandal, the CIA leak case, the CIA leak grand jury investigation, and Plamegate) refers to the identification of Valerie Plame Wilson as a covert Central Intelligence Agency officer. Mrs. Wilson's...
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| Bank Charges | Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National and Others |
In the United Kingdom, bank charges, also (inaccurately) called penalty charges, are made against people's credit card, store card, bank and some other accounts for going overdrawn or bouncing (failing to pay) a direct debit, cheque or standing...
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| NSA electronic surveillance program | ACLU v. NSA |
An electronic surveillance program was implemented by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks as part of the broader War on Terrorism. The NSA, a signals intelligence agency, implemented...
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| Obscenity | Quotation Subject | Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union |
Obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul, repulsive, detestable"), is a term that is most often used in a legal context to describe expressions (words, images, actions) that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time. It is often replaced...
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| Communications Decency Act | Act of Congress | Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union |
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was arguably the first attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In 1997, in the landmark cyberlaw case of ACLU v. Reno, the U.S. Supreme Court partially...
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