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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
Intermediate scrutiny
Procedural due process
Contributory Negligence
The percentage vote to pass a bill
2. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
Request of production of documents and things
Step one in filing a civil law suit
implied contract
Equal Protection Clause
3. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
Minimal scrutiny
fifth amendment
Res ipsa loquitor
express contract
4. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
To prove injury the defamation must show...
First African American Justice
Wire Fraud
lible
5. An act of a senate member to delay the close of debate or force a decision to be made.
Pocket Veto
Filibuster
Ethics
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
6. Agreement (offer and acceptance)
quasi contract
Contributory Negligence
first requirement of a contract
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
7. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
revocation
Bill of Right
counter offer
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
8. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Negligence
false imprisonment
Assumption of the risk
The percentage vote to pass a bill
9. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
Contributory Negligence
The job of the Rules Committee
Minimal scrutiny
lible
10. Pretrial motions; motions for a summary judgement; asks the court to resolve a lawsuit before it goes to trial
Step three in filing a civil law suit
promissory estoppel
Arson
operation of law
11. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
Common Law
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
trespass
sixth amendment
12. Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than deliberate conduct.
Negligence and strict liability
Res ipsa loquitor
Filibuster
Administrative Law
13. Punishable by a prison sentence of one year or more
operation of law
felony
Collective Responsibility
The job of the Rules Committee
14. Life - Liberty - Property
John Locke
Citation
Depositions
mens rea
15. Someone on the property by right of a public place. highest duty of due care is owed to avoid negligence
Holding
To prove injury the defamation must show...
invitee
Strict scrutiny
16. The party filing the appeal
Common Law
The primary drafter of the constitution
Assumption of the risk
Appellant
17. 2/3 vote
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
First African American Justice
forseeable harm
Negligence
18. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
Comparative Fault
Substantial effect rule
Physical and Mental examination
What Freedom of speech includes
19. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
assault
tort
Mail box rule
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
20. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
Ethics
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Insurance Fraud
Voir Dire
21. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
Depositions
Federalism
misdemeanor
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
22. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Interrogatories
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
23. To the conference committee
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Mediation
24. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
Fraud
embezzlement
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
eighth amendment
25. Race - ethincity and fundamental rights; Any government action that intentionally discriminates against racial or ethnic minorities or interferes with a fundamental right is presumed invalid.
Strict scrutiny
Federal District Court
John Locke
Step two in filing a civil law suit
26. Judge made law
Qualifications for defamation
Stare Decisis
precedent
Common Law
27. Forseeable harm
coercion
Substantial effect rule
Mail Fraud
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
28. Presiding officer (senator)
fifth amendment
fifth amendment
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Step three in filing a civil law suit
29. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Qualifications for defamation
Negligence
30. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
uniform commercial code
31. Business tort; defendant improperly breached contract and causes injury to plaintiff
breach of duty
precedent
Substantial effect rule
Tortious interference with a contract
32. No state can deny citizens due process. (14th amendment) this incorporates states to be ruled under the constitution
Mail box rule
Incorporation clause
Insurance Fraud
Qualifications for defamation
33. Fraud using electronic communications of any kind;
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Wire Fraud
Total circuits in the court of appeals
negligent hiring
34. A person who is on your property with your permission; you owe them a higher duty of due care to warn of known dangers
Voir Dire
invitee
expiration
licensee
35. Judges are obligated to follow precedent
Stare Decisis
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Veto
Contributory Negligence
36. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
breach of duty
rejection
conversion
Style of a Case
37. Due process or the right to a hearing
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
Arbitration
Veto
fifth amendment
38. Cruel and unusual punishment
eighth amendment
Who regulates commercial speech
Comparative Fault
conversion
39. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
expiration
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
trespass
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
40. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Dissenting Opinion
Equal Protection Clause
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
mens rea
41. Preponderance of the evidence
precedent
Tortious interference with a contract
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
strict liability
42. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Defamation
negligent hiring
regulation of interstate commerce
43. If the proceedings of a business occur intrastate but will eventually effect proceedings interstate - this rule states that congress may interfere
Style of a Case
Patriot Act
rejection
Substantial effect rule
44. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
Federalism
false imprisonment
Intermediate scrutiny
Qualifications for defamation
45. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
negligent hiring
Request of production of documents and things
Contributory Negligence
Current Chief Justice
46. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
insanity
Federalism
Filibuster
Request of production of documents and things
47. Trial.
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Dicta
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Federal District Court
48. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
Mail box rule
operation of law
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Step one in filing a civil law suit
49. Type of defense; the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats or rewards
Depositions
coercion
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Step four in filing a civil law suit
50. Freedom of speech.
Henry DeBracton
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Legal Issue Presented
first amendment