• Sports law in the United States overlaps substantially with labor law, contract law, competition or antitrust law, and tort law. Issues like defamation...
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    The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the supreme law is the nation's Constitution, which...
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    billion in state and local tax revenues. In 2018, the United States Supreme Court declared a federal ban on sports gambling to be unconstitutional in Murphy...
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    Sports in the United States are an important part of the nation's culture. Historically, the most popular sport has been baseball. However, in more recent...
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  • In the United States, the right to keep and bear arms is modulated by a variety of state and federal statutes. These laws generally regulate the manufacture...
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    000 sworn law enforcement officers are serving in the United States.[citation needed] About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement...
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    In the United States, antitrust law is a collection of mostly federal laws that regulate the conduct and organization of businesses in order to promote...
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    accommodations. Many LGBTQ rights in the United States have been established by the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated state laws banning protected class...
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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,...
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    The history of sports in the United States reveals that American football, baseball, softball, and indoor soccer evolved from older British sports—rugby...
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    Sports in the United States are an important part of the nation's culture. Historically, the most popular sport has been baseball. However, in more recent...
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    In the politics of the United States, elections are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, the nation's...
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    The 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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    The 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States is an ongoing political backlash from social conservatives against LGBTQ movements. It has included...
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    The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...
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    or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the United States of America, particularly of the lower 48 states and Alaska. They may also include...
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    one post-quickening. Many states subsequently passed various laws on abortion until the Supreme Court of the United States decisions of Roe v. Wade and...
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  • In the United States, the rights of transgender people vary considerably by jurisdiction. In recent decades, there has been an expansion of federal, state...
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    The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive...
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    In the United States, a child marriage is a marriage in which at least one party is under 18 years of age—or the age of majority. The U.S. is the only...
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    The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal...
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    revenue, the NBA is the third most profitable sports league in the United States and the world, after the National Football League (NFL) and Major League...
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  • The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. With the...
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  • in Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the oldest extant law school in the United States, having been founded in 1779 at the urging of alumnus Thomas Jefferson...
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    The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. It expresses the...
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  • historically supported the legislation of blue laws. Most blue laws have been repealed in the United States, although many states continue to ban selling...
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  • Rape laws vary across the United States jurisdictions. However, rape is federally defined (even though individual state definitions may differ) for statistical...
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    curriculum laws are laws approved by various U.S. states that limit the discussion of sexuality and gender identity in public schools. In theory, these laws mainly...
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    Federal holidays in the United States are 11 calendar dates designated by the U.S. federal government as holidays. On these days non-essential U.S. federal...
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  • laws. The United States is ranked well on human rights by various organizations. For example, the Freedom in the World index lists the United States 53rd...
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