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___ - The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which ch it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Laws
____ values - Reflect the relationship between individuals and the government (voting laws)
Political values
___ values - Deals with the accumulation, distribution, and preservation of wealth, as well as the relationship between markets and people
Economic values
____ values - Issues that are important to society (All students in the U.S. are given a free public education as society values education)
Social values
___ law - System of laws enacted to punish or reform those who have committed a criminal act against a state or nation or individuals (involves the government deciding whether to punish someone for committing a crime)
Criminal law
_____ - Crimes that are not that serious. Punishments range from fines to loss of privileges to jail time. (parking tickets, public intoxication, trespassing, petty drug crimes, disorderly conduct, and certain cases of weapons possession)
Misdemeanor
____ - The most severe criminal offenses. Range in punishment from short to long term imprisonment and even death. (Kidnapping, murder, aggravated and felony assault, arson, and the sale/manufacturing of drugs)
Felony
____ Law - Blanket term for all non-criminal law, typically in settling monetary or property related disputes between private citizens. (Deals with individual rights or interests (contractual) that have been violated by another individual or organization.
Civil law
____ law - Enforces and interprets agreements between people, businesses, or groups related to the exchange of money, services, goods, or property
Contract law
____ law - Governs the different forms of ownership regarding personal and real (land) property
Property law
____ law - Involves issues related to family relationships, including child custody, divorce, adoption, paternity, emancipation, etc.
Family law
____ law - Covers Most civil suits, as it involves the law that protects and compensates people who have been injured by the recklessness or negligence of wrongdoers
Tort law
____ v ___ - Related to the segregation of public schools based on race. African American students were denied admittance to certain schools based on laws allowing segregation in public schools. They argued that this segregation violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment
Brown v board of education
___ v ___ - A group of students planned a public showing of their support for a truce in the Vietnam war. The principals of the few moines school learned of the plan and met to create a policy that said any student wearing an armband would be asked to remove it, if they refused they would get suspended. The students sued the school through their parents violating the students’ right of expression.
Tinker v Des Moines independent community school district
___ v __ - A high school student was suspected of having cigarettes in her purse by school officials who searched it without her knowledge. She got charged with possession of marijuana. She moved to suppress evidence but the court denied her motion. She was found guilty and the Appellate Division affirmed the denial to suppress evidence. The court stated that the fourth amendment applies to searches and seizures conducted by school officials in public schools.
New Jersey v. T.L.O.
