Terms for Midterm

 

URBS/PLSI 513/GEOG 668 "Politics, Law, & the Urban Environment"

Richard T. LeGates Fall, 1997

 

September 9 "The American Legal System"

 

Absorption of bill of rights through 14 amendment

Adversarial process

Appellant

Appellee

Appellate court

Bill of rights

Brief (meaning case synopsis)

Casebook

Case citation

Civil case

Concurring opinion

Content neutral regulation of expression

Criminal case

Defendant

Docket number

Decision

Dissenting opinion

Due Process clause of XIV amendment

Federal court (federal district court; federal circuit court of appeal)

First amendment

Holding

Jurisdiction

Majority opinion

Mootness

Plaintiff

Police power

Precedent

Reasoning

Reporter (law)

Respondent

Right to be different

Ripeness

Secondary effects (of land use)

State court (small claims court municipal court , superior court, state supreme court)

Time, place and manner regulation

Treatise

Trial Court

U.S. supreme court

 

 

September 16 "Regulation of Aesthetics, signs, information, commercial, and religious speech"

Architectural review board

Commercial speech

Core commercial speech

Municipal ordinance

Precedent

Stare decisis

 

 

September 23 "Development of a Legal Case"

 

Affidavit

Answer

Appeal

Brief (in a lawsuit; not the same as a case synopsis)

Cause of action

Complaint

Decision (in a case)

Deposition

Discovery

Distinguishing (one case from another case)

Evidence

Exhibit

Expert testimony

Interrogatories

Law and motion calendar

Memorandum of Points and Authorities

Moot court

Motion (in a lawsuit)

Prayer for relief

Pre-trial conference

Rules of Civil Procedure

Settlement

Subpoena

 

 

 

September 30 "Taking Jurisprudence

 

Condemnation

Fifth amendment taking clause

Invalidation (as a remedy)

Inverse condemnation

Just compensation

Money damages

Nuisance

Physical invasion of land (in law)

Police power

Redevelopment

Regulatory taking

Remedy

Taking

Temporary regulatory taking

 

 

October 7 "Takings Jurisprudence # 2"

 

Capital improvement

Exaction

In lieu fee

Infrastructure

Linkage

Linkage fee

Nexus

Property tax

Proposition 13

Required dedication

Sales tax

User fee

Welcome stranger aspect of proposition 13

 

October 14 "Legal Analysis Practice / Legal Research"

 

Advance sheets

Corpus Juris Secundum

Headnote

Index to Legal periodicals

Law review

Legal Digest

Reporter

Shepard's Citator (and verb to Shepardize)

Treatise

U.S. Code Annotated

West key note system

 

 

October 21 "Rebuilding the Urban Core"

 

Community Development Block Grant

Enterprise Zone

Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Program (EZ/EC)

Empowerment Zone

Enterprise Community

Model Cities Program

Tax increment financing

Urban Renewal

 

 

October 28 "Moot Ct. / Environmental, Open Space, and Agricultural Preservation"

 

Agricultural large lot zoning

California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Cumulative impact

Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

Environmental impact

Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

Friends of Mammoth Mountain case

Greenbelt

Greenbelt Alliance

Right to Farm Law

Williamson Act

Little NEPA

Mitigation

NEPA

Negative declaration (Neg dec)