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  2. Special pleading - Wikipedia

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    Special pleading is an informal fallacy wherein a person claims an exception to a general or universal principle, but the exception is unjustified. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5 ...

  3. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. v. Mottley - Wikipedia

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    Instead, such jurisdiction can only arise from a complaint by the plaintiff that the defendant has directly violated some provision of the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States. [1] This reading of the federal question jurisdiction statute is now known as the well-pleaded complaint rule .

  4. Pleading - Wikipedia

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    Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure a complaint is the first pleading in American law filed by a plaintiff which initiates a lawsuit. [1] A complaint sets forth the relevant allegations of fact that give rise to one or more legal causes of action along with a prayer for relief and sometimes a statement of damages claimed (an ad quod damnum clause).

  5. Complaining - Wikipedia

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    The Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir is the oldest known written complaint [1]. Complaining is a form of communication that expresses dissatisfaction regardless of having actually experienced the subjective feeling of dissatisfaction or not. [2]

  6. Plea bargaining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    United States in 1970, [4] although the Supreme Court warned that plea incentives which were sufficiently large or coercive as to over-rule defendants' abilities to act freely, or used in a manner giving rise to a significant number of innocent people pleading guilty, might be prohibited or lead to concerns over constitutionality. [5] Santobello v.

  7. Rule consciousness - Wikipedia

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    The rule consciousness as one of the primary factors of personality out of sixteen as categorized by Raymond Cattell, 1946 as low and high level. [1] The descriptors of low level rule consciousness are expedient, nonconforming, disregards rules, self-indulgent or having a low super ego strength while the high level consciousness are rule-conscious, dutiful, conscientious, conforming ...

  8. EU's Kallas says EU is 'not negotiating' on Greenland - AOL

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    The European Union is "not negotiating" on Greenland, EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday, amid claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that the United States needs to control ...

  9. Chatham House Rule - Wikipedia

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    The rule was created in 1927 and refined in 1992. Since its most recent refinement in 2002, the rule states: [1] When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.