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Precedent
PRECEDENT A court decision that is cited as an example or analogy to resolve similar questions of law in later cases. The Anglo-American common-law tradition is built on the doctrine of stare decisis ("stand by decided matters"), which directs a court to look to past decisions for guidance on how... Read more |
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Burden of proof
BURDEN OF PROOF The principal purpose of most trials is to resolve a dispute about facts. Both parties present evidence to a fact finder, either judge or jury, who evaluates the evidence and resolves the controversy. A number of rules of law guide the fact finder in evaluating the evidence; most... Read more |
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Alternative Dispute Resolution
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Procedures for settling disputes by means other than litigation; e.g., by arbitration, mediation, or minitrials. Such procedures, which are usually less costly and more expeditious than litigation, are increasingly being used in commercial and labor disputes, divorce... Read more |
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Political Question
Political Questions are controversies that the U.S. Supreme Court has historically regarded as nonjusticiable and inappropriate for judicial resolution (see Justiciability). Although the Court may have jurisdiction over cases involving such questions, it has often chosen not to decide them,... Read more |
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Umpire
UMPIRE A person chosen to decide a question in a controversy that has been submitted to arbitration but has not been resolved because the arbitrators cannot reach agreement, or one who has been chosen to be a permanent arbitrator for the duration of a collective bargaining agreement. Arbitration... Read more |
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Bacteremia
Bacteremia Definition Bacteremia is an invasion of the bloodstream by bacteria. Description Bacteremia occurs when bacteria enter the bloodstream. This may occur through a wound or infection, or through a surgical procedure or injection. Bacteremia may cause no symptoms and resolve without... Read more |
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DNA evidence
DNA Evidence, Cases of Exoneration When available and properly utilized, DNA is a powerful component of the forensic science and criminal justice systems; it can link seemingly unrelated crimes, resolve cold cases, track violent offenders both in and out of the penal system, solve crimes which... Read more |
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Pleading
PLEADING Asking a court to grant relief. The formal presentation of claims and defenses by parties to a lawsuit. The specific papers by which the allegations of parties to a lawsuit are presented in proper form; specifically the complaint of a plaintiff and the answer of a defendant plus any... Read more |
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. agency created in 1964 to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and to promote programs to make equal employment opportunity a reality. It has since become responsible for ending discrimination... Read more |
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Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1920). In May 1920, Nicola Sacco, a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler...than to the fact that Sacco and Vanzetti were immigrant Italian...Vanzetti: The ... |
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Sacco and Vanzetti: the case resolved.
SACCO AND VANZETTI: The Case Resolved. Consider for...revisionists. In this case it does more damage...reputation of Sacco or Vanzetti. The justification for The Case Resolved ... |
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background.
...but they all explained the case and its significance differently...Following their execution in 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti remained rich dramatic symbols...two men. Francis Russell's Sacco and Vanzetti: The Case ... |
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Will Boston memorial right a `wrong'? Sacco-Vanzetti sculpture accepted.(Nation)
...Aug. 23 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Day, declaring...and scholars, the case has been open to...important point is that cases like Sacco and Vanzetti rarely become resolved," Harvard law professor...last ... |
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Ideological chic and the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco & VanzettiThe Case Resolved. By Francis Russell...earlier thesis that Nicola Sacco was certainly guilty of...correlative that Bartolomeo Vanzetti, also convicted and executed...practiced eye. Nicola Sacco was a skillful ... |
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Postmortem: new evidence in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti.
...Evidence in the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti. For another view...in the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti...defenders of Sacco and Vanzetti, Russell says...was fired from Sacco's ... |
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Letters
...Supreme Court justices. So I resolved that I can vote for McCain for...Irony missed in letter about Sacco-Vanzetti case David Broder says James H. Rowe...comic footnote he added to the Sacco and Vanzetti ... |
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Tabloid reality. (trials of the century) (editorial)
...In the cases of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Scottsboro...episode. These cases were about sex...real mystery to be resolved in any of them...Hinckley was no Sacco or Vanzetti; Goetz was not...trying to make the ... |
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James McGuinness, at 74; expert on ballistics for State Police
...handled up to 1,200 cases annually and provided...of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, thought to be...investigation, "A Case Resolved," by ... |
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