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American law
* apply in the United States.
* limits the armed forces in law enforcement.
* permits abortion.
* prohibits foreign governments from making campaign contributions.

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Antitrust law
* Antitrust Law Describe the primary statutes for protecting consumer credit.
* affects no other profession in the U.S. as much as it affects physicians.
* apply to the activities of physician unions.
* are legislation under which the United States government acted to break up any trust.
* defines certain behaviors as illegal.
* has great impact on California businesses and consumers.
* holds monopolies to a higher standard than ordinary companies.
* prohibit price fixing and other types of explicit cartel or monopoly behavior
  - using monopoly power in one market to expand into others
* prohibits companies that have monopolies from tying separate products.
* protect competition.
* regulates the relationship between labor and management.
* seeks to make businesses compete fairly
  - maximize market efficiency and to protect consumers
* tool to enforce the claims of any second-rater against any innovator.
* violate property rights, punish success, and harm consumers
  - the essence of capitalism and a free society

Aviation law
* covers the regulation of aircraft, locally, nationally, and internationally.
* very narrow subspecialty of law.

Bad law
* are ones that turn good people into criminals.
* scourge on human kind.

Bankruptcy law
* allows companies to operate while they restructure.
* is federal law, making the filing fee for bankruptcy the same in every state
  - governed by federal statute and supplants state debtor-creditor law
  - very different in the United States than it is in foreign countries
* prohibit discrimination based upon a debtor filing for bankruptcy protection.
* provide a way to divide borrower's assets.
* specify a priority system for collection of the debts of a debtor.

Biblical law
* Many Biblical laws command proper treatment of animals.
* establishes the parameters of economic transactions.
* requires the dowry, a sizeable amount, as the wife's protection against abandonment.
* say some food is tainted.
* stands against a centralized government embodied in an unitary state.

Canadian law
* categorizes firearms by class.
* forbids capital punishment.
* protects both individual rights and the rights of society.
* tries to protect people from hate and protect free speech at the same time.

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Case law
* are biblical laws dealing with specific cases
  - civil laws
* consists of decisions handed down by the courts as they hear cases.
* defines misconduct as a substantial and intentional disregard of the employer's interests.
* is distinguished from statute law
  - studied to understand underlying concepts
  - that law as interpreted and set forth by appellate courts or courts of review
* is the collection of published legal decisions of the courts
  - law as decided by previous court cases
  - principles of law established by judicial decisions rather than by legislation
  - used to explain various types of tort liability
* refers to the decisions of courts and administrative bodies.
* result in formation of precedents in law.

Chinese law
* allow accused to be defended by family members.
* requires organized social groups to register with the government
  - with the state