01:790:106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Civil Rights Act Of 1964
19 Feb 2018
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Law - a set of rules made by government and backed by the forces of government. Types of us law: statutory: law made by legislative bodies such as congress. Speed limits: administrative: law made by administrative agencies, such as health and human. Services: common law: made by judges (precedents, constitutional. Differences between how courts and legislatures make law: courts are passive, courts are limited by the facts of the dispute. Brown v. board of education: court could only look at segregation in public schools. 1964 civil rights act: congress outlawed segregation everywhere: courts use special rules. Standing to sue: you must be affected directly by a dispute.
