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Graham v. Florida (2010) is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether a minor who committed a non-homicide crime could be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A grand jury is a group of people selected to sit on a jury that decide whether the prosecutor’s evidence provides probable cause to issue an indictment.

Greg v Georgia is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that death penalty for murder was not in and of itself a cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Griggs v Duke Power Co is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was established that neutral employment practices that have a discriminatory effect can violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even if the employer did not intend to discriminate.

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) was a Supreme Court case that famously inferred that a right to privacy existed within the Constitution, which does not explicitly exist in the document. The case was over a Connecticut law that banned the use of any contraception for married couples which received multiple legal challenges prior to this case.

Grutter v Bollinger is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a law school could consider race when making admissions decisions. The Court found that the law school had an interest in pursuing the educational benefits that come from having a racially diverse student body.

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Latin for "that you have the body." Federal courts can use the writ of habeas corpus to determine if a state's detention of a prisoner is valid. A writ of habeas corpus is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee (e.g. an institutionalized psychiatric patient) before the court to determine if the person's imprisonment or detention is lawful. A habeas petition proceeds as a civil action against the State agent who holds the defendant in custody.

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum is Latin for “that you have the body to submit to.” Commonly called the “Great Writ,” habeas corpus ad subjiciendum is the specific class of the habeas corpus judicial order used to direct a person or 

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that even people detained as enemy combatants have the constitutional right to challenge their detention before a neutral decision maker. 

A chad is the portion of paper that is removed when paper is hole-punched; therefore, a hanging chad is the piece of paper that occasionally fails to fully separate from the paper when it is not fully punched through, and instead remains partially in place.

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