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These laws allow plaintiffs to bring lawsuits against the state and/or its subordinate entities, but often impose various procedural prerequisites or require plaintiffs to pursue their claims in a court that specializes in hearing claims against the state government. Such laws often cap the total amount of recoverable damages and prohibit ...
An alternative view of property, favored by legal realists, is that property simply denotes a bundle of rights defined by law and social policy. [1] Which rights are included in the bundle known as property rights, and which bundles are preferred to which others, is simply a matter of policy. [1]
Asset protection (sometimes also referred to as debtor-creditor law) is a set of legal techniques and a body of statutory and common law dealing with protecting assets of individuals and business entities from civil money judgments. The goal of asset protection planning is to insulate assets from claims of creditors without perjury or tax ...
Substantive due process is a principle in United States constitutional law that allows courts to establish and protect substantive laws and certain fundamental rights from government interference, even if they are unenumerated elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution.
In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that protects government actors from civil lawsuits for misconduct or mistaken judgments while acting in their official capacity as long as those actions were not clearly established at the time. For an action to be clearly established often requires that a previous case law directly ...
The Property Clause grants Congress the power to make laws for the territories and other federal lands. The Guarantee Clause mandates that the United States guarantee that all states have a "republican form of government," though it does not define this term. Article Four also requires the United States to protect each state from invasion, and ...
The Citizen Action Defense Fund filed the lawsuit on behalf of a Tacoma apartment complex on Tuesday morning. City of Tacoma sued over controversial housing initiative aimed at protecting tenants ...
Corporations are legal non-human entities that are entitled to property rights just as an individual human is. A corporation has legal power to use and possess property just as a fictitious legal human would. However, a corporation isn't a single human, it is the collective will of a group of people who provide a service or build a good.