Media Law Chapter 1 Word Scramble
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Executive Branch | The executive branch of government has authority for execution of the laws. In the federal government, executive authority derives from the president. |
Legislative Branch | The legislative branch of government has the authority to pass laws. In the federal government, the legislative authority rests in congress. |
Judicial Branch | The judicial branch of government is the court system. In the federal government, judicial authority rests in the Supreme Court, and whatever lower federal courts congress may establish. |
Bill of Rights | First ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. |
Judicial Review | The doctrine under which the judiciary is the final interpreter of the constitutionality of executive and legislative actions. |
Writ of mandamus | Issued by courts to command lower courts or government officials to perform specific actions. |
Statutory law | Law that is enacted into statute by a legislative body. |
Supremacy clause | Federal law is supreme whenever a conflict arises between federal and state law. |
Common law | Law that represents the precedent set by courts in past decisions. |
Stare decisis | The legal doctrine that judges are bound to follow the decisions of past courts, or precedent, in deciding similar cases. |
Landmark rulings | Cases that establish new legal principles. (Go against the precedent.) |
Equity law | Courts of equity were able to grant equitable remedies, which require the parties to perform, or refrain from, certain actions rather than simply requiring a defendant to pay monetary damages. |
Injunctive relief | A form of equitable remedy; but rather than commanding action, injunctive relief commands inaction, prohibiting the respondent from acting. |
Executive orders | Issued by the president to direct the executive branch as to how it should execute the law. Many executive orders carry the force of statutory law by congressional consent. |
Administrative law | Law that derives authority from being part of the regulations set out by executive agencies. |
Criminal law | The body of law that defines conduct prohibited and punished by the state. |
Civil law | The body of law that regulates disputes between private parties |
Burden of proof | Refers to the threshold of certainty a party in court must meet to prove a matter in dispute. |
Beyond a reasonable doubt | The highest burden of proof in criminal cases. |
Preponderance of evidence | Likely standard of proof. |
Clear and convincing evidence | Media standard of proof. |
Plaintiff | In a civil trial, the party bringing the action. |
Damages | Money awarded to the plaintiff in a civil suit, to be paid by a defendant. |
Indictment | A formal accusation that a person has committed a felony or serious crime. After a grand jury hearing, the grand jury issues either a true bill, in which case the person is charged, or a no bill, in which case the person is not charged. |
Miranda warning | Requirement to apprise suspects of their rights. |
Discovery | Pre-trial phase in which each party is entitled to request and gain access to evidence possessed by the other side. |
Depositions | Out of court sworn oral testimony that is transcribed for use at trial. |
Arraignment | A hearing where formal charges are read against a criminal defendant and the defendant is expected to enter a plea. |
Nolo contendere | A plea entered by the defendant in a criminal proceeding, which admits neither guilt nor innocence, but does not contest the charge. |
Voire Dire | The pre-trial process of jury selection. |
Change of venue | Moving a trial to a different geographical location. |
Change of venire | Importing jurors from a different geographical location. |
Continuance | Postpones proceedings until a later date. |
Peremptory challenge | A challenge to a juror in voire dire that is not for cause. most jurisdictions afford attorneys one or more "strikes" without giving a reason for striking the names. |
Reversible error | Error found by an appellate court to have occurred at trial that sufficiently prejudiced the outcome to warrant reversal. |
Harmless error | Error found by an appellate court to have occurred at trial that did not sufficiently prejudice the outcome to warrant reversal. |
Vacated | A vacated judgment voids a previous judgment. |
Remanded | A higher appellate court may send back, or remand, a case to a lower court for some subsequent action. |
Tort | From the Latin "break", a tort is a civil wrong that involves the breach of a duty to someone else, resulting in foreseeable harm. |
Respondent | The responding party in a legal proceeding, particularly in appellate proceedings or proceedings initiated by petition. |
Defendant | The accused in a criminal legal proceeding, or responding party in a civil proceeding initiated by complaint. |
Demurrer | A motion that challenges the legal sufficiency of a claim set forth in a filing by an opposing party. |
Summary judgment | A final judgment for one party without trial when a court finds either no material fact is in dispute, or when the law alone clearly establishes one party's claim. |
Interrogatories | Written questions pertinent to the case posed by attorneys for both sides in the discovery phase of a trial |
Actual damages | Also called compensatory damages, this is the monetary compensation designed to remedy the losses suffered by the plaintiff. |
Punitive damages | This type of damage award is not intended to make the plaintiff whole, but to act as an additional deterrent to the type of conduct the defendant engaged in. |
De novo | From the Latin, "From the beginning," When an appellate court reviews a non-jury trial record, it may conduct the review de novo, meaning to look for error in the judge's findings of fact as well as matters of the law. |
Writ of certiorari | A writ the U.S. Supreme issued to review a lower court's decision. |
Concurring opinion | When justices agree with the result reached by the majority, but they think the majority's rationale is wrong. They do agree, but offer a different rationale. |
Memorandum order | Indicates the winning party but does not explain why. |
Per curiam order | A decision rendered with an opinion, but not signed. |
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