MGMT 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Malpractice, Superior Court, Federal-Question Jurisdiction
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Litigation: when you are actually going to court: personal injuries, family law, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, employee law, bankruptcy, criminal law. Transactional law- like when you sign an employment agreement: immigration, intellectual property, patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, real estate, taxes, trusts and estates. In ca you only have 2 years to bring the lawsuit for personal injury. Agencies are created to deal with these laws: 1933 and. 1934 acts created after the great depression- securities and exchange acts. They can also create agencies that can clear up the laws: judiciary case law, executive executive orders, common law: derived from custom and judicial precedent from previous rulings (often contrasted with statutory law) Setup of the federal and state court systems: federal the case. Supreme court: 4 of the 9 judges need to agree to hear. District court: can only hear the case if it is 1.
