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Judicial economy or procedural economy [1] [2] [3] is the principle that the limited resources of the legal system or a given court should be conserved by the refusal to decide one or more claims raised in a case. For example, the plaintiff may claim that the defendant's actions violated three distinct laws. Having found for the plaintiff for a ...
The jurisdictional scope of commercial courts outside the United States [63] may have some differences with American state level specialized business and commercial courts. For example, the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales include specialized courts or lists for admiralty, [123] insolvency, [124] and patents, [125] which in the ...
FTC may act against a company’s “unfair” business practices even though the practice is not an antitrust violation Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of California: 405 U.S. 251 (1972) States cannot sue for general economic damage due to violation of antitrust laws Cruz v. Beto: 405 U.S. 319 (1972) Free exercise of religion while in prison custody
Case law, also used interchangeably with common law, is a law that is based on precedents, that is the judicial decisions from previous cases, rather than law based on constitutions, statutes, or regulations. Case law uses the detailed facts of a legal case that have been resolved by courts or similar tribunals. These past decisions are called ...
Supreme Court curbs EPA authority. In another Supreme Court decision, the high court ruled in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot force ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has heard numerous cases in the area of tax law. This is an incomplete list of those cases. This is an incomplete list of those cases. Article One
Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986) Set the standard for what parties must establish in evidence to be granted summary judgement in federal civil cases and how courts should evaluate those motions. Since such motions are extremely common, Anderson has become the most-cited Supreme Court case. Daubert v.
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.