• Civil discovery under United States federal law is wide-ranging and can involve any material which is relevant to the case except information which is...
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    Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a phase of pretrial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure...
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  • the year the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect. Federal courts are now required to apply the substantive law of the states as rules of decision...
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    foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties. The Constitution sets out the boundaries of federal law, which consists...
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  • definitions of an agency of the federal government of the United States are varied, and even contradictory. The official United States Government Manual offers...
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    In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes...
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    are punishable by federal law under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, but many states lack laws that cover sexual orientation...
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  • A deposition in the law of the United States, or examination for discovery in the law of Canada, involves the taking of sworn, out-of-court oral testimony...
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    The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property...
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    sworn law enforcement officers have been serving in the United States. About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement...
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  • The United States is considered to have the most favorable legal regime for inventors and patent owners in the world. Under United States law, a patent...
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  • In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide...
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  • Civil procedure in the United States consists of rules that govern civil actions in the federal, state, and territorial court systems, and is distinct...
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  • the United States, at the federal level, electronic discovery is governed by common law, case law and specific statutes, but primarily by the Federal Rules...
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    protection under the law provided under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution", and has declared that same-sex marriage is a civil right...
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    Security, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. February 10, 2010. Wikiquote has quotations related to Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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  • In the law of the United States of America, an objection is a formal protest to evidence, argument, or questions that are in violation of the rules of...
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    federalism. Under U.S. constitutional law, the 50 individual states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. The states are not...
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  • decisions in the United States contains landmark court decisions which changed the interpretation of existing law in the United States. Such a decision...
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    The United States budget comprises the spending and revenues of the U.S. federal government. The budget is the financial representation of the priorities...
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    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...
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    In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American...
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    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement...
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    The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the common government of the United States, a federal republic...
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  • federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution...
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    It is a federal union of 50 states, the federal capital district of Washington, D.C., and 326 Indian reservations. The 48 contiguous states border Canada...
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    In the United States, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) is a legal penalty in 27 states, throughout the country at the federal level...
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    United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)...
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    tort law in civil law jurisdictions largely derives from Roman law, common law jurisdictions derive their tort law from customary English tort law. In...
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    The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion;...
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