A foundation in the United States is a type of charitable organization. However, the Internal Revenue Code distinguishes between private foundations (usually...

The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which...

Until 1969, the term private foundation was not defined in the United States Internal Revenue Code. Since then, every U.S. charity that qualifies under...

sworn law enforcement officers have been serving in the United States. About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement...

The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". With the stated purpose to promote art and culture...

In the United States, the right to keep and bear arms is modulated by a variety of state and federal statutes. These laws generally regulate the manufacture...

Foundation (evidence), a legal term Foundation (nonprofit), a type of charitable organization Foundation (United States law), a type of charitable organization...

On May 1 the United States officially recognizes Law Day. It is meant to reflect on the role of law in the foundation of the country and to recognize its...

United States nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds United States nationality. In the United States, nationality is typically...

The United States Code (formally the Code of Laws of the United States of America) is the official codification of the general and permanent federal statutes...

Voter ID laws in the United States are laws that require a person to provide some form of official identification before they are permitted to register...

In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial...

government of the United States empowers a wide range of federal law enforcement agencies (informally known as the "Feds") to maintain law and public order...

A law school in the United States is an educational institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate...

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive...

United States corporate law regulates the governance, finance and power of corporations in US law. Every state and territory has its own basic corporate...

The origins of the United States' defamation laws pre-date the American Revolution; one influential case in 1734 involved John Peter Zenger and established...

United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the US. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality...

In the United States, state law refers to the law of each separate U.S. state. The fifty states are separate sovereigns, with their own state constitutions...

United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)...

U.S. constitutional law, the 50 individual states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. The states are not administrative...

The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll,...

United States trust law is the body of law that regulates the legal instrument for holding wealth known as a trust. Most of the law regulating the creation...

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America...

immigrating to the United States for ten years and was the first immigration law passed by Congress. Laborers in the United States and laborers with work...

United States is a set of court cases brought by Daniel J. Bernstein challenging restrictions on the export of cryptography from the United States. The...

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...

peoples of the United States or portions thereof, such as American Indians from the contiguous United States and Alaska Natives. The United States Census Bureau...

2007) ISBN 978-1-59460-322-8 National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys National Elder Law Foundation Administration on Aging http://www.agingcarefl.org/aging/legal...

In the law of the United States of America, an objection is a formal protest raised in court during a trial to disallow a witness's testimony or other...