COM 506 Exam 1 (100% correct answers)

US Laws Order of Precendence correct answers -Constitution -law/statutes -regulations -Common law (set by precedents by previous cases) Layers of Government correct answers -Federal (Congress, Federal Regulators) -State (Legistatures, state regulators) -Local (county and city) Interpreting Laws correct answers -uses "Stare decisis" (it has been decided) -current cases have to follow what previous cases decided Litigation correct answers Contract--Employment & Production Tort--Libel and Privacy Statutory Civil Wrongs--copyright, Tradmark, Civil Rights Constitutional Claims--only against government The only people who can violate consittiuional rights correct answers the government Ligation Process against Private Party correct answers -claim--settlement (offers a sum of money or will file lawuit) -file summons and complaint (state or federal) -File answer -motion to dismiss (no law supports claim) Discovery correct answers -motion for summary judgment (no facts support claim) -trial -appeals Litigation against government correct answers -injury claim--same as civil (for damages) -constitutional claims -temporary restraining order (3 days) -temporary injunction -permanent injuction certioriari correct answers supreme court choose the cases to review, if they choose to review this case they grant... En banc correct answers supreme court agrees to hear case, with a panel of all 9 of them indictment correct answers criminal case word, brought by grand jury or prosecutor there is enough evidence to hold someone for trial guilty/not guilty correct answers criminal cases only