There is a long and evolving history regarding the right to privacy in the United States. In the context of American jurisprudence, the Supreme Court first recognized the “right to privacy” in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). Before...
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right to privacy
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ripe
A claim is "ripe" when the facts of the case have matured into an existing substantial controversy warranting judicial intervention. Article III, Section 2, Clause 1, of the U.S. Constitution requires federal courts to decide only actual cases and...
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Roe v. Wade is the Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected the right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. In 2022, the Supreme Court reversed Roe and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey...
Roth v. United States (1957)
Roth v. United States is a 1957 Supreme Court case holding that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. Find the full opinion here.
It has since been superseded by Miller v. California, which created a three-part standard to...
rule of doubt
The Rule of Doubt is a U.S. Copyright Office rule that presumptively accepts copyright registration of a claim containing software object code, even though the Office cannot verify whether the software object code contains copyrightable work...
sales
Sales Law: An Overview
Transactions for the sale and leasing of goods is governed mainly by sales laws of each state. Every state, with the exception of Louisiana, has adopted Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) as the main body of law...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is a federal act passed in 2002 with bipartisan congressional support to improve auditing and public disclosure in response to several accounting scandals in the early-2000s. The act was named after the bill...
School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp (1963)
School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp (1963) is a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that mandatory religious activity as part of a public school’s curriculum, such as Bible readings and the recitation of the Lord's...
search warrant
A search warrant is a warrant signed by a judge or magistrate authorizing a law enforcement officer to conduct a search on a certain person, a specified place, or an automobile for criminal evidence.
A search warrant...
Second Amendment
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Such language...