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| x Abortion |
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Roe v. Wade |
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced, in humans...
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| x Marriage |
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Loving v. Virginia |
Marriage is a social union or legal contract between individuals that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged by a variety of ways, depending on the culture or...
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| x Race |
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Loving v. Virginia |
The term race or racial group usually refers to the categorization of humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics. The physical features commonly seen as indicating race are salient visual traits such...
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| x Privacy |
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Roe v. Wade |
Privacy (in Latin privatus 'separated from the rest, deprived of sth, esp. office, participation in the government', from privo 'to deprive') is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby...
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| Savana Redding v. Safford Unified School District #1 | |||
| x Search and seizure |
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California v. Greenwood |
Search and seizure is a legal procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems 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...
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| x Waste |
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California v. Greenwood |
Waste (also referred to as rubbish, trash, refuse, garbage, or junk) is unwanted or unusable materials.
In living organisms, waste is the unwanted substances or toxins that are expelled from them. More commonly, waste refers to the materials that...
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| x Natural environment |
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Commonwealth v Tasmania |
The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof.
The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished by components:
The...
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| x 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. The movement that eventually led to the project's cancellation became one of most significant...
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| x Trademark | Microsoft vs. Lindows |
A trademark or trade mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source,...
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| x Native title | Mabo v Queensland |
Native title is "the recognition by Australian law that some Indigenous people have rights and interests to their land that come from their traditional laws and customs". The concept recognises in certain cases there was and is a continued...
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| x 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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| x Religion |
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Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses v Commonwealth |
A religion is a system of human thought which usually includes a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, deity or deities, or ultimate truth....
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| x Election |
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Ray v. Blair |
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices...
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| Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth | |||
| x Slander and libel | McLibel case |
In law, defamation—also called calumny, vilification, slander (for spoken words), and libel (for written or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give...
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| x McDonald's |
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McLibel case |
McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:Â MCD) is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving nearly 47 million customers daily. At one time it was the largest global restaurant chain, but it has since been surpassed by multi-brand...
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| x Eminent domain |
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Kohl v United States |
Eminent domain (United States, Canada), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia) or expropriation (South Africa and Canada's common law systems) is the inherent power of the state to...
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| x 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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| x Racial segregation |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
Racial segregation is the separation of different racial groups in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a washroom, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home....
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| x Equal opportunity | Brown v. Board of Education |
Equality of opportunity, sometimes known as Equal Opportunity, is a term which has differing definitions and there is no consensus as to the precise meaning. In the classical sense, equality of opportunity is closely aligned with the concept of...
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| x Freedom of speech |
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Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization |
Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak without censorship and/or limitation. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes used to indicate not only freedom of verbal speech but any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or...
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| x Freedom of religion |
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A.C., et al. v. Director of Child and Family Services |
Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance; the concept is generally recognized also to include the...
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| x 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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| x Bank Charges | Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National and Others |
The term bank charge covers all charges made by banks to their customers. In common parlance, the term often relates to charges in respect of personal current accounts. These charges may take many forms, including:
Much of the following discussion...
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| x 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, part of the broader President's Surveillance Program conducted under the overall umbrella of...
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| x Obscenity | 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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| x Communications Decency Act | Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union |
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In 1997, in the landmark cyberlaw case of Reno v. ACLU, the U.S. Supreme Court partially...
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| x Arraignment |
Arraignment is a formal reading of a criminal complaint in the presence of the defendant to inform the defendant of the charges against him or her. In response to arraignment, the accused is expected to enter a plea. Acceptable pleas vary among...
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| x Affidavit |
An affidavit is a formal sworn statement of fact, signed by the author, who is called the affiant or deponent, and witnessed as to the authenticity of the affiant's signature by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public or commissioner of oaths. The...
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| x Video game controversy |
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Strickland v. Sony |
Similar to other forms of media, video games have been the subject of argument between leading professionals and restriction and prohibition. Often these bouts of criticism come from use of debated topics such as video game graphic violence, virtual...
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| x Creation-evolution controversy |
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Scopes Trial |
The creation–evolution controversy (also termed the creation vs. evolution debate or the origins debate) is a recurring theological and cultural-political dispute about the origins of the Earth, humanity, life, and the universe, between those who...
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| Freiler v. Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education | |||
| McLean v. Arkansas | |||
| Wright v. Houston Independent School District | |||
| Willoughby v. Stever | |||
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| x Paternity | Dastagir v. Dastagir |
In law, paternity is the legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a man and a child usually based on several factors.
At common law, a child born to the wife during a marriage is the husband's child under the "presumption of lawful...
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| x Gender discrimination | Shaya-Castro v. New York City Police Department |
Gender discriminaton is discrimination based on gender. This is considered a form of prejudice and is illegal in most countries.
Discrimination based on gender is often based on the gender stereotypes promoted by a particular society. For instance...
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| x Wrongful dismissal | Shaya-Castro v. New York City Police Department |
Wrongful dismissal, also called wrongful termination or wrongful discharge, is an idiom and legal phrase, describing a situation in which an employee's contract of employment has been terminated by the employer in circumstances where the termination...
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| x Hostile work environment | Jones, Et Al v. Halliburton Company et al |
A hostile work environment exists when an employee experiences workplace harassment and fears going to work because of the offensive, intimidating, or oppressive atmosphere generated by the harasser based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age...
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| x Sexual Harrassment | Jones, Et Al v. Halliburton Company et al | ||
| x The Emma Slver Mine Swindle | Emma Silver Mine | ||
| x Environment |
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The biophysical environment is the symbiosis between the physical environment and the biological life forms within the environment, and includes all variables that comprise the Earth's biosphere. The biophysical environment can be divided into two...
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| x Climate change |
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Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average ...
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| x Judicial review |
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Marbury v. Madison |
Judicial review is the doctrine in democratic theory under which legislative and executive action is subject to invalidation by the judiciary. Specific courts with judicial review power may annul the acts of the state when it finds them incompatible...
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| x Three strikes law |
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Ewing v. California |
Three strikes laws are statutes enacted by state governments in the United States which require the state courts to hand down a mandatory and extended period of incarceration to persons who have been convicted of a serious criminal offense on three...
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| x Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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Ewing v. California |
The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments. The...
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| x Cruel and unusual punishment | Ewing v. California |
Cruel and unusual punishment is a statement implying that governments shall not inflict suffering or humiliation on the condemned as punishment for crimes, regardless of their degree of severity. It was founded in the English Bill of Rights, which...
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| x Criminal law |
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Ewing v. California |
The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of various bodies of rules in different jurisdictions whose common characteristic is the potential for unique and often severe impositions as punishment for failure to comply. Criminal...
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| x Agricultural law |
Agricultural law, sometimes referred to as Ag Law, deals with law on Agricultural infrastructure, seed, water, fertilizer, pesticide, etc; Law on agricultural finance, Law on agricultural labour; agricultural marketing; Agricultural insurance,...
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| x Illegal immigration |
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Illegal immigration is the movement of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Illegal immigrants are also known as illegal aliens to differentiate them from legal aliens. In politics,...
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| x Immigration |
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Immigration is the arrival of new individuals into a habitat or population. It is a biological concept and is important in population ecology, differentiated from emigration and migration.
The real term "immigration" is usually used to mean...
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