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  2. English rule (attorney's fees) - Wikipedia

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    Alaska has long been an exception to the U.S. pattern, where the English rule applies. A very limited version of the English rule was adopted in Texas during the 2011 legislative session that applies only to the filing of a baseless lawsuit. Tex. R. Civ. P. 91a. [3] Then Texas governor Rick Perry called in his state of the state address for a ...

  3. Discrimination based on hair texture in the United States

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    By the late 1800s, African American women were straightening their hair to meet a Eurocentric vision of society with the use of hot combs and other products improved by Madam C. J. Walker. However, the black pride movement of the 1960s and 1970s made the afro a popular hairstyle among African Americans and considered a symbol of resistance. [ 5 ]

  4. American rule (attorney's fees) - Wikipedia

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    The American rule (capitalized as American Rule in some U.S. states) is the default legal rule in the United States controlling assessment of attorneys' fees arising out of litigation. It provides that each party is responsible for paying its own attorney's fees, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] unless specific authority granted by statute or contract allows the ...

  5. Rights of Englishmen - Wikipedia

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    The "rights of Englishmen" are the traditional rights of English subjects and later English-speaking subjects of the British Crown.In the 18th century, some of the colonists who objected to British rule in the thirteen British North American colonies that would become the first United States argued that their traditional [1] rights as Englishmen were being violated.

  6. History of the American legal profession - Wikipedia

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    With the annexation by the United States in 1848, Congress established an entirely new territorial legal system, implementing U.S. laws, forms, and procedures. A vast majority of lawyers and judges were new arrivals from the United States, as there was no place in the new system for the original Mexican roles. [44]

  7. Hairstyle - Wikipedia

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    A hairstyle's aesthetic considerations may be determined by many factors, such as the subject's physical attributes and desired self-image and/or the stylist's artistic instincts. Physical factors include natural hair type and growth patterns, face and head shape from various angles, and overall body proportions; medical considerations may also ...

  8. Civil procedure in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.

  9. American rule - Wikipedia

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    American rule may refer to: American rule (attorney's fees), controlling assessment of attorneys' fees arising out of litigation; American rule (property), stating that there is no implied duty upon the lessor as against wrongdoers to lessee's right of possession; American rule (successive assignments), rule for successive assignments of rights