Legal authorities judicial opinions, statutes, regulations, ordinances, and others are identified by legal citations. When a lawyer cites or mentions a legal authority in a document filed before a court, he or she must provide the legal citation. The citation enables the court, other attorneys, and legal researches to identify and locate the legal authority.
Remember that the legal system relies on precedent or past legal authority. Judges care what courts have ruled in the past so that their rulings comport with existing law.
- What was the Ford Pinto problem?
- What types of problems cause product liability actions?
- Why would it be fair to impose strict liability on the manufacturer of a product?
- What is breach of warranty?
- What is products liability?
- What is the tort of nuisance?
- Do all states recognize the different sub-torts of invasion of privacy?
- What is an example of false light invasion of privacy?
- What if the press reports on the sex life of a famous politician? Is that invasion of privacy?
- What is a famous tort case of involving intrusion?
- How did the invasion of privacy tort originate?
- What tort protects a person from being photographed in the bathroom?
- What happened in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan?
- What are examples of public officials and public figures?
- What is a public figure and why is that important to defamation law?
- What are common defenses to defamation claims?
- What if an editorial writer uses strong language to describe a person?
- What are the required elements of a defamation claim?
- What is defamation?
- What is a statute of repose?
