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FindLaw. FindLaw is a business of Thomson Reuters that provides online legal information in the form of state laws, case law and codes, legal blogs and articles, a lawyer directory, DIY legal services and products, and other legal resources. The company also provides online marketing services for law firms. FindLaw was created by Stacy Stern ...
Legal informatics is an area within information science . The American Library Association defines informatics as "the study of the structure and properties of information, as well as the application of technology to the organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information." Legal informatics therefore, pertains to the application ...
List of websites founded before 1995. The first website was created in August 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, a European nuclear research agency. Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb browser became publicly available the same month. By the end of 1992, there were ten websites. [ 1] The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow ...
The U.S. Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332 (d), 1453, 1711–15, expanded federal subject-matter jurisdiction over many large class action lawsuits and mass actions in the United States. The bill was the first major piece of legislation of the second term of the Bush Administration. Business groups and tort reform ...
The "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine is an extension of the exclusionary rule, which, subject to some exceptions, prevents evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment from being admitted in a criminal trial. [citation needed] Like the exclusionary rule, the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine is intended to deter police from ...
Statute of limitations. A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. [1] [2] In most jurisdictions, such periods exist for both criminal law and civil law such as contract law and ...
Politics of China. The Property Law of the People's Republic of China ( Chinese: 中华人民共和国物权法; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Wùquán Fǎ) is a property law adopted by the National People's Congress in 2007 (on March 16 [1]) that went into effect on October 1, 2007. The law covers the creation, transfer, and ...
The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act is a uniform act enacted in some U.S. states to alleviate the problem of simultaneous death in determining inheritance . The Act specifies that, if two or more people die within 120 hours of one another, and no will or other document provides for this situation explicitly, each is considered to have ...