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A cross-appeal is a request filed by an appellee requesting that a higher court review a decision made by a

Curtilage includes the area immediately surrounding a dwelling, and it counts as part of the home for many legal purposes, including searches and many self-defense laws. When considering whether something is in a dwelling's curtilage, courts consider four factors:

Custodial interrogation refers to the questioning of a detained person by the police in connection with a criminal investigation. A person qualifies as detained not only when under arrest, but also whenever they are not free to leave for other reasons. 

Cy pres is a legal doctrine that means "as near as possible.”

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The “Daubert Standard” provides a systematic framework for a trial court judge to assess the reliability and relevance of expert witness testimony before it is presented to a jury. Established in the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court case Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., 509 U.S.

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• Federal Rules of Evidence
• evidence
• trial
• EXPERT WITNESS
• trial witness
• expert testimony

De Facto is a legal term meaning "in fact" or "in reality", which is used to qualify many legal concepts, even when the formal legal requirements have not been met. De facto law refers to a legal practice or formality that is not specifically enumerated by law. 

[Last reviewed in August of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]

De facto segregation was a term used during the 1960s racial integration efforts in schools, to describe a situation in which legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but nevertheless school segregation continued. In Balsbaugh v. Rowland, 447 Pa.

• constitutional law

Decarceration is a government policy of reducing either the number of persons imprisoned or the rate of imprisonment in a given jurisdiction. The policies include decriminalizing low-level offenses such as marijuana possession. Similarly, in Brown v.

Under United States export control law (15 CFR), a "deemed export" refers to technology or related computer language (source code) that is exported.  While an export is usually something that leaves the country, if regulated information or technology is released to a foreign national  living in the United States, it is deemed to be “exported” to the home country or countries of the foreign national.  Intangible knowledge or data is

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A defective verdict is a verdict flawed to such extent that a judgment cannot be based on it. There are several instances that might occur to render a verdict defective. For example, a verdict may be defective because of procedural irregularities during deliberations.