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If a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit wins the case but the defendant does not pay the judgment, the plaintiff may request the clerk to issue a writ of execution. If the writ is returned unsatisfied, certain property of the defendant may be seized by the sheriff and sold to pay the judgment.

Agencies may deny access to which of the following types of records?

The United States Supreme Court is staffed by judges who receive lifetime appointments from the President, subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A woman claiming sex discrimination because she was passed over for a promotion by her employer, would have her case reviewed under the ____ test of the Equal Protection Clause.

The general rule in negligence is that a person is under a duty to all others at all times to exercise reasonable care for the safety of others.

The study of business ethics has one main authority and clear cut universal standards.

Which of the following may a U.S. Court of Appeals NOT do in ruling on a case?

Situational ethics judges a person’s ethics, and it does so from the perspective of the actor.

A long-arm statute allows a state to obtain jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant when the nonresident defendant has sufficient contacts with the state.

Mark, a resident of Illinois, while driving on the freeway, hits Sonya, a resident of Wisconsin, and totally destroys Sonya’s brand new vehicle. Sonya may bring suit in federal district court: