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28 Cards in this Set
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Stare Decisis
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What is Precedent
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Notice and the opportunity to be heard
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What is due process
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A party must hae an intersest in the lawsuit
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What is standing
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The court acquires jurisdiction through minimum contacts
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What is Long-arm jurisdiciton
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The injured party in a civil suit
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What is the Plantiff
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Selecting the jury
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What is voir dir
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Defaming a person in writing
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What is libel
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The plantiff is partially responsible for his/her injury
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What is contributory neglogence or comparative neglegence
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One type of arbitration
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What is Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR)
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The manufacturer will be responsible for harm resulting from its product- the plantiff needs not to show neglegence
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What is product liability
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Law passed by a legislative body, such as congress
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What is a statute
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The authority to hear and decide a case
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What is jurisdiction
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Defendant's response to the plantiff's complaint
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What is the answer
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One side seeks information about the evidence to be presented by the other side in a civil case
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What is discovery
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THe method by which we determine whether a person's conduct was negligent
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What is reasonable person standard
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No matter how careful I am, I will be liable for harm caused, because I am engaging in a hazardous activity
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What is strict liability
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I know the danger and proceed with the activity anyway
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What is assumption of risk
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An ohio court has jurisdiction over a person,because that person resides in ohio
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What is personal jurisdiction
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A legal wrong that is not a crime
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What is a tort
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Jurisdiction of a court that considers appeals from lower courts
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What is appellate jurisdiciton
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The method by which statutes are organized so that they are easier to locate
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What is a code
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A form of ADR where a third party assists the parties in conflict to resolve their problems
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What is mediation
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More than one court has jurisdiction to hear a case, but only one or two courts are the proper courts to hear the case
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What is venue
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It provides for freedom of speech and religion
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What is the first ammendment
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Jurisdiction of a federal court that relies upon the parties being citizens of different states
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What is diversity jurisdiction
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In the federal court systems, each state has at least one of these
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What is a US District Court
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Notifies the parties that the US supreme court will hear the case
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What is a Writ of Certiorari
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International tort involving offensive touching
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What is battery
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