The Supreme Court in Medina limited the ability to enforce federal spending laws under §1983, ruling that such statutes must ...

Statutes of fraud were adopted in the U.S. primarily as a common law concept—that is, as unwritten law. However, many states have formalized the concept by creating statutes.

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If the legislature really wanted to reduce the prison population, they would repeal these petty statutes like disorderly ...

The present Statutes, adopted on 21 December 2017, shall replace the Statutes of the International Committee of the Red Cross of 21 June 1973, as amended on 20 July 1998, 8 May 2003, 18 December 2014 ...

Essentially, statutes of limitations establish a certain period of time in which legal action can be taken after an alleged crime, and once that time is up, nothing can be done.