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  2. Reasonable accommodation - Wikipedia

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    Rarely, two people will need accommodations that conflict with each other. Creative problem solving may be required to find ways to accommodate both people. [5] For example, the United States Department of Justice recommends that if a program serves a person with a service dog and a person who is allergic to dogs, that the program separate them physically, by asking them to stay in different ...

  3. Reasonableness - Wikipedia

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    In constitutional and administrative law, reasonableness is a lens through which courts examine the constitutionality or lawfulness of legislation and regulation. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] According to Paul Craig , it is "concerned with review of the weight and balance accorded by the primary decision-maker to factors that have been or can be deemed ...

  4. Reasonable person - Wikipedia

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    While there is a loose consensus on its meaning in black letter law, there is no accepted technical definition, and the "reasonable person" is an emergent concept of common law. The reasonable person is not an average person or a typical person, leading to difficulties in applying the concept in some criminal cases, especially in regard to the ...

  5. Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit Act: Chapter 40B

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    Under Chapter 40B, in any municipality where none of the three statutory minima identified by the State are met for the amount of affordable housing that exists in the community, a developer can build more densely than the municipal zoning bylaws would permit, allowing more units per acre of land when building a new development, if at least 25% (or 20% in certain cases [4]) of the new units ...

  6. Plain meaning rule - Wikipedia

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    The literal rule is what the law says instead of what the law was intended to say. Larry Solum , Professor of Law at Georgetown University, expands on this premise: Some laws are meant for all citizens (e.g., criminal statutes) and some are meant only for specialists (e.g., some sections of the tax code).

  7. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    The law began in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1985 as the Virginians with Disabilities Act—supported by Warren G. Stambaugh—which was passed by the state Virginia. It is the first iteration of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

  8. Grave disability - Wikipedia

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    Grave disability or gravely disabled is a legal status used as a criterion in addition to danger to self or others [1] as the basis for involuntary commitment [2] in only 9 of 50 states of the United States. [3]

  9. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    Black's Law Dictionary defines the rule against perpetuities as "[t]he common-law rule prohibiting a grant of an estate unless the interest must vest, if at all, no later than 21 years (plus a period of gestation to cover a posthumous birth) after the death of some person alive when the interest was created." [8]