USA Law

Category: Constitutional law

  • Obscenity

    Obscenity in United States Obscenity Definition In criminal law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law and the general corruption of morals. It may consist in written or spoken words, conduct, pictures, or effigies. It need not be couched in obscene or vulgar […]

  • Obscenity

    Obscenity in United States Obscenity Definition In criminal law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law and the general corruption of morals. It may consist in written or spoken words, conduct, pictures, or effigies. It need not be couched in obscene or vulgar […]

  • Racial Discrimination

    Racial Discrimination in the United States Racial Discrimination and the Legislation United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled "RACIAL DISCRIMINATION", the United States was founded with the enslavement of […]

  • Racial Discrimination

    Racial Discrimination in the United States Racial Discrimination and the Legislation United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled "RACIAL DISCRIMINATION", the United States was founded with the enslavement of […]

  • Eminent Domain

    Eminent Domain in United States Eminent Domain Definition The power to take private property for public use, whether exercised by the sovereign directly, or by one to whom the sovereign power has been delegated for qiMsi public purposes. The superior right of property subsisting in a […]

  • Eminent Domain

    Eminent Domain in United States Eminent Domain Definition The power to take private property for public use, whether exercised by the sovereign directly, or by one to whom the sovereign power has been delegated for qiMsi public purposes. The superior right of property subsisting in a […]

  • Grand Jury

    Grand Jury in the United States An investigative body that makes accusations rather than determines guilt. The grand jury evaluates information generated on its own or brought to it by a prosecutor. If the grand jury determines that probable cause exists, it returns an indictment against an […]

  • Grand Jury

    Grand Jury in the United States An investigative body that makes accusations rather than determines guilt. The grand jury evaluates information generated on its own or brought to it by a prosecutor. If the grand jury determines that probable cause exists, it returns an indictment against an […]

  • Stare Decisis

    Stare Decisis in the United States Latin for "let the decision stand." Stare Decisis (Judicial Function) holds that once a principle of law is established for a particular legal situation, courts should adhere to that principle in similar cases in the future. The case in which the […]

  • Freedom of Association

    Freedom of Association in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATIONThe freedom of association derives from the free speech and free assembly provisions of the first amendment, and it […]

  • Justiciability

    Justiciability in the United States Justiciability Principles United States Supreme Court Cases In the United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court held that it was constitutional error for Congress to enact section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (1 U.S.C. § 7) depriving the […]

  • Justiciability

    Justiciability in the United States Justiciability Principles United States Supreme Court Cases In the United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court held that it was constitutional error for Congress to enact section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (1 U.S.C. § 7) depriving the […]

  • Adoption

    Adoption in United States Adoption Definition The act by which a person takes the child of another into his family, and treats him as his own. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, or paternity and filiation. 6 Demolombe Code Nap. § 1. As […]

  • Sex Discrimination

    Sex Discrimination in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled SEX DISCRIMINATIONThe application of constitutional principle to government action that distinguishes on the basis of sex is a […]

  • Discovery

    Discovery in the United States A procedure used before civil trials that allows one party to obtain information about a case from the opposing party. Discovery assists litigants in civil suits prepare for trial. Evidence is basically gathered in three ways during discovery. The first is by […]