Across
- 4. enforces and administers laws
- 6. Injury would not have occurred without the defendant’s act or failure to act
- 7. governmental bodies charged by the legislature with administering and implementing particular legislation (two words)
- 9. Professional misconduct
- 13. Party bringing the lawsuits may go to either the federal or state court (two words)
- 15. Defamatory statements expressed in print, writing, signs, or pictures
- 17. jurisdiction refers to the authority of a court over the person as opposed to authority of the persons property
- 19. data about data
- 20. Applies to failure to protect innocent third party from a dangerous patient (3 words)
Down
- 1. Directs witness to appear and give testimony (multiple words)
- 2. Requires production of documents or things (multiple words)
- 3. encompasses the rights and duties that exist between parties that are independent of a contract (two words)
- 5. Authorizes disclosure that would otherwise be prohibited by statute or regulation (two words)
- 8. interprets laws
- 10. Someone failing to do something that a reasonably prudent person would do in a similar situation or doing something that a reasonably prudent person would not do in a similar situation
- 11. courts conduct trials in civil and criminal matters and supervise the discovery process that occurs before trial
- 12. enacts laws
- 14. out-of-court statements that are offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted
- 16. Judge made law (two words)
- 18. Defamatory statements expressed orally or by gesture