BL 260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wyeth, Direct Examination, Affirmative Defense
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A federal, state, or local government agency established to perform a specific function. Administrative agencies are authorized by legislative acts to make and enforce rules to administer and enforce the acts. The body of law created by administrative agencies (in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions) in order to carry out their duties and responsibilities. The party who takes an appeal from one court to another. The party who the appeal is against, who wants to get a reverse judgement. Any source of law that a court must follow when deciding a case. Binding authorities include constitutions, statutes, and regulations that govern the issue being decided, as well as court decisions that are controlling precedents within the jurisdiction. To violate a law, by an act or an omission, or to break a legal obligation that one owes to another person or to society. The rules of law announced in court decisions.
