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Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain United States Government officers or employees is an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 111. Simple assault is a class A misdemeanor, but if physical contact occurs, the offense is a class D felony. If a deadly weapon is used or bodily injury is inflicted, it is a class C felony. [1]
Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management is a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, Section 3, which defined the federal definition of marriage to be a union of a man and a woman, entirely excluding legally married same-sex couples.
At common law, a victim of a personal injury and others with a direct interest in the outcome of an action (e.g., the victim's spouse) were automatically disqualified from testifying about the injury or its consequences (because the victim's self-interest in recovery was seen as inevitably resulting in an unacceptably high risk of perjury). [5]
In United States federal law, a special government employee (SGE) is an advisor, expert or consultant who is appointed to work with the federal government. The role of special government employees is defined in Title 18 of the United States Code (U.S.C.) § 202. [a]
The assessment is based on an international child rights convention, but the United States is the only U.N. member not to have adopted the treaty.
As a legal term, injury is a harm done to a person due to acts or omissions of other persons. Harm may be of various kinds: bodily injury , psychological trauma , loss of property or reputation, breach of contract , etc. Injury may give rise to civil tort or criminal prosecution.
Prior to the 1966 positive law recodification, Title 5 had the heading, "Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees." [3] In 2022, Congress moved the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Inspector General Act of 1978, and the Ethics in Government Act from the Title 5 Appendix to Title 5 itself. [4]
In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle of federal constitutional law that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from lawsuits for damages unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known". [1]