Participants completed a brief questionnaire assessing their typical alcohol use, the number of drinks consumed on this particular occasion, and whether they believed that they were currently over the legal limit for intoxication. A breathalyzer was used to determine actual level of intoxication. ...
n. commonly called "drunk driving," it refers to operating a motor vehicle while one's blood alcohol content is above the legal limit set by statute, which supposedly is the level at which a person cannot drive safely. State statutes vary as to what that level is, but it ranges from ....
The New Jersey woman accused of slamming into the back of a golf cart in South Carolina, killing a bride who was leaving her wedding reception, had a blood-alcohol content that was three times the legal limit, officials say. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, a former resident of Clinton, New Jer...
COPA attempted to limit restrictions on pornographic material to communications made for commercial purposes. Although Congress incorporated the Miller test in hopes that the law would pass constitutional muster, the ACLU and a group of on-line website operators challenged the constitutionality of COPA,...
The following defenses are the traditional excuses: duress, entrapment, infancy, insanity, and involuntary intoxication. Cf. JUSTIFICATION. execution. 1. The act of carrying out or putting into effect (as an action or an order) <execution of the court’s decree>. 2. Validation of a written ...
Can you be convicted of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Impaired (DWI) even if your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) is below the legal limit? The simple answer is: YES, you can. Impaired driving remains a critical problem on our highways. A common misconception is that...
title XI of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act (Pub. L. No. 103-322, 108 Stat. 1807 [codified as amended in scattered sections of 42 U.S.C.A.]). The purpose of the legislation is to limit firearm ownership. An interstate compact that legalized the banned as...
The personal mistreatment of Baraka was longstanding. He was shunned for many years, when he came into the room, his coworkers turned and left the room, only the other black workers remained. Baraka was called names such as “faggot” and “sissy” as well as “Sambo.” His name was fr...
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The law uses the concept of duty to limit the situations where a defendant is liable for a plaintiff's injury. Whether a defendant has a duty to protect the plaintiff from harm is a question decided by the court, not the jury. Over time, courts have developed numerous rules creating and...