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)