Sherman v. Sherman, 330 N.J. Super. 638 (Ch. Div. 1999), is a case regarding who controls the disposition of a corpse, with the Court applying state legislation instead of common law principles on disposition.
The dismantling of South African apartheid culminated in a multi-racial democratic election in 1994. The African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela became President, and an interim constitution was drafted and enacted.
Southern Life & Health Ins. Co. v. Morgan, 21 Ala. App. 5 (Ala. Ct. App. 1925), is an Alabama Court of Appeals case that established that spouses can lose their rights in the honoring of the deceased if they do not act within a reasonable time, and the case establishes that the next of kin will assume the rights.
Sovereign immunity is a common law doctrine under which a sovereign (e.g., a federal or state government) cannot be sued without its consent. Sovereign immunity in the United States was derived from the British common law, which was based on the idea that the King could do no wrong.
The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) is a compilation maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). It includes individuals, entities, and organizations with whom U.S. persons are generally prohibited from doing business with.
Specific jurisdiction is a form of minimum contacts that enables a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a corporate defendant in that state without violating due process because of the extent of the defendants’ activities within that state.
Stand your ground is a self-defense legal doctrine that allows a person to use reasonable force to protect themselves against an imminent threat of danger or death without attempting to retreat from the situation.
A stop-and-frisk refers to a brief non-intrusive police stop of an individual. The Fourth Amendment requires that before stopping the suspect, the police must have a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed by the suspect.
