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Abortion Angkordemon 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...
Quotation Subject R v Davidson
Marriage A medieval woodcut of a marriage from Holland 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   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,...
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...
Search and seizure Vehicle drug search australia   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...
Waste Waste bags in Amsterdam 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...
Natural environment Devil's Punchbowl Waterfall, New Zealand 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...
Franklin Dam "No Dams" Triangle   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...
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...
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...
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...
Religion Various religious symbols 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 a poster for the European Parliament election 2004 in Italy, showing party lists 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...
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...
McDonald's Logo. 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 the famous nail house in Chongqing   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...
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.
Racial segregation The Rex Theatre for Colored People   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...
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...
Freedom of speech A public protest against limits on the size of demonstrations in Central Park, New York City 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...
Freedom of religion   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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...