Intro To Law

Law created by the legislature for the health, welfare, sfaety, and general good of the public.

Law created by the legislature for the health, welfare, sfaety, and general good of the public.

Political belief that there should be a superior governmental entity that is not subject to question

Principle that governments should adapt laws to reflect society's current needs and beliefs.

Goal that the judiciary is to allow maximum personal freedom without detracting from the welfare of the general public.

Goal to blance the need to for consistancey and stability against the need for for a flexible and adaptive government.

Legal principle

Law created by a Legislature.

"Let the decision stand"

Existing legal standard

Aplication of Stare Decisis

Newly established legal principle

Makes Laws

• Congress
• Senetors/Representatives

Enforces Laws

• Pressident/Govoner
• FBI
• CIA

Enterprit Laws

• Supreme Court
• 9 Justices

Hears cases only consisting of the U.S. Government, federal laws, and Diversity of citizenship.

Part of the Judicial Brach , hear cases involving state law.

has the authority to hear evidence of parties and renders a verdict.

Reviews the action of the trial cort and determines weather a error has been commited.

Reading cases and statutes and applies it to your case.

• Issue- Legal Question?
• Rule- Find Statute adressing issue.
• Analysis- Apply the rule to the case.
• Conclution- Write your findings

Law put in place by Legislature

Federal Law Trumps State law

• 30 Years old
• 6 year term
• 9year citizen

• 25 Years Old
• 7 year citizen
• 2 year term

• 1. Sign Bills
• 2. Do nothing
• 3. Veto

Proposed Law

someone who persuades congress to pass bills in their favor.

Office created by the Legislature and overseen by the executive branch, they apply certain specified laws created by the legislature.

Creates the Authority in the executive branch to organize and oversee an administrative agency by establishing specific goals and objectives.

Congress may not assign it's autority to to create statutory law, and no other government entity may assume such authority.

A regulation that defines, clerifies, or enforces a statutory objective.

Requires that anyone having a dispute with an administrative agencies must first follow all available procedures to resolve the dispute within the agencies.

Law that governs the private rights of individuals, legal entities, and government.

Award of money payable to the injured party for the reasonable cost of the injuries.

Return them to the position they were before the aacident.

Law used to guide parties fairly and efficiently through the legal system.

Creates and resolves the issues between parties.

• 1. Compesatory- $ for damages only
• 2. Spacific Performance- someone compleat something
• 3.Exemplary/punitive- Punishment

Paper that say who is sueing who

Formal request by a party to a lawsuit for court-ordered action or nonaction.

tends to establish an essitial fact in the dispute.

Evidence necessary to a fair and informed decision by the trier of fact.

Selection of the jury

Power of a court to have authority over someone/something.

Determine actual issue

authority of thecourt to determine the rights and obligations of the parties in a lawsuit

Authority of a Court to render and enforce rulings over a particular individual and individual's property.

Jurisdiction beyond court's geographical bounderies.

Authority of the court over a specific item of property regaurdless of who claims property or an interest in it.

Defendant asks to remove from state court to federal Court

Judicial officer who presides over cases in litigation within the court syst

Confined to hearing cases involving the conduct of administrative agencies.

Apointed by the President

one who is in a position of trust by another with respect to rights, person, or property.

Having an adequate knowledge, skill, and training to undertake specific legal representaion in a matter.

Having an adequate knowledge, skill, and training to undertake specific legal representaion in a matter.

Obligation to retain all communications of any sort that occur within the attorny client relationship as private and privileged.

Either the appearance of or actual divided loyalty by one who is fiduciary

Someone you can speak freely with & know it wont be shared

• 1. Attorny/Client
• 2. Husband/Wife
• 3. Doctor/Patient
• 4. Priest/Perishoner