impeachable offense. An offense for which a public official may legally be impeached, during the first step in a two-step process that may, depending on the vote in the U.S. Senate, lead to the official’s removal from office. • The U.S. Constitution states that “[t]he President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United […]
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The qualified privilege that a government can invoke to prevent disclosure of the identity and communications of its informants. • In exercising its power to formulate evidentiary rules for federal criminal cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently declined to hold that the government must disclose the identity of informants in a preliminary hearing or
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motion for protective order. A party’s request that the court protect it from potentially abusive action by the other party, usu. relating to discovery, as when one party seeks discovery of the other party’s trade secrets. • A court will sometimes craft a protective order to protect one party’s trade secrets by ordering that any
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dump-truck lawyer. Slang. A public defender who spends little time or effort and exhibits little skill mounting a defense on behalf of an indigent defendant. • This derogatory term arises from criminal defendants’ common perception (typically a misperception) that public defenders prefer to dump cases by making plea bargains rather than spend time preparing for
An error that a party cannot complain of on appeal because the party, through conduct, encouraged or prompted the trial court to make the erroneous ruling. [Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 742; Appeal and Error 882; Criminal Law 1137. C.J.S. Appeal and Error §§ 745–747; Public Administrative Law and Procedure § 214.]
administrative hearing. An administrative-agency proceeding in which evidence is offered for argument or trial. [Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 469. C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure §§ 134, 136, 138–139.]
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works. 1. A mill, factory, or other establishment for manufacturing or other industrial purposes; a manufacturing plant; a factory. 2. Any building or structure on land. new works. Civil law. A structure newly commenced on a particular estate. • A denunciation of new works is a remedy allowed for an adjacent landowner whose property will
record, n. 1. A documentary account of past events, usu. designed to memorialize those events. 2. Information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that, having been stored in an electronic or other medium, is retrievable in perceivable form. UCC § 5-102(14). 3. MINUTES(2). 4. The official report of the proceedings in a case,
administrative-law judge. An official who presides at an administrative hearing and who has the power to ad-minister oaths, take testimony, rule on questions of evidence, and make factual and legal determinations. 5 USCA § 556(c). — Abbr. ALJ. — Also termed hearing examiner; hearing officer; trial examiner. [Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 443. C.J.S. Public
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administrative proceeding. A hearing, inquiry, investigation, or trial before an administrative agency, usu. ad-judicatory in nature but sometimes quasi-legislative. — Also termed evidentiary hearing; full hearing; trial-type hearing; agency adjudication. [Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 309, 341–513. C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure §§ 71, 76–171.]
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