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What is the Rule of Law?
What is a system of laws under which the people and the government are bound establishing predictability and clear rules of behavior, and standards?
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What is 1. the jurisdictional amount exceeds $75,000 and 2. no plaintiff shares a state of citizenship with any defendant?
What is necessary for a federal court to have diversity jurisdiction? (2)
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What is Conflict of Laws?
What concerns the process for determining the applicable law to resolve disputes between individuals, in multi-jurisdictional cases and transactions?
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What is International law?
What is is the body of legal rules, norms, and standards that apply between sovereign states and other international actors?
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What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
What is the burden of proof is a criminal case?
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What is a contract?
What is essentially a promise that can be enforced by law?
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What is concurrent jurisdiction?
What kind of jurisdiction occurs when more than one court has the authority to hear and decide a civil or criminal case?
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What is intent?
What is a key issue in proving an intentional tort, as the injured party, must prove that the other party acted intentionally, and knew or should have known, that his/her actions could cause harm?
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What is arbitration?
What is a “private process where disputing parties agree that one or several individuals can make a decision about the dispute after receiving evidence and hearing arguments?”
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What is embezzlement?
What crime occurs when one steals or misappropriates (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works)?
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What is subject matter and personal jurisdiction?
What kind of jurisdiction must a court have to hear a case? (2)
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What are general damages?
What type of damages are noneconomic damages such as pain and suffering and emotional distress?
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What are
Breach of Duty Damages Duty Causation?
What are the elements to prove negligence?
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What is mediation?
What is a process in which a third party selected by the disputants helps the parties to voluntarily resolve their disagreement?
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What is preponderance of the evidence?
What is the burden of proof in a civil case?
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What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
What clause requires that each state court is obligated to acknowledge the final judgments of other state courts?
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What are punitive damages?
What type of damages are awarded to punish a wrongdoer?
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What are special damages?
What type of damages include economic losses such as loss of earnings, property damage, and medical expenses?
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What is negotiation?
What is a process of submission and consideration of offers until an acceptable offer is made and accepted?
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What is larceny?
What is a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business?
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What is the Pervasive-Regulation Exception?
What is an exception to the 4th Amendment that allows administrative agencies to conduct warrantless searches of businesses attached to industries that have a long history of pervasive regulation?
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What is products liability?
What kind of liability exists when products containing inherent defects cause harm to someone to whom the consumer loaned the product to?
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What is personal injury or property damage?
What kind of harm must a plaintiff show to constitute negligence?
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What is Res Ipsa Loquitor?
What is the doctrine of evidence in tort law that permits an inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff from circumstantial evidence if the accident was of a kind that does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence?
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What is the PLUS Ethical Decision-Making Model?
What is one of the most used ethical models designed to create a clear-cut approach to implementing a solution to an ethical problem?
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