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A legal doctrine that designates a person's abode or vehicle as a place in which they have protections to defend themselves against intruders.
Minnesota law permits the use of force, including deadly force in narrow circumstances, when a person reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent great bodily harm or death, but that right is const...
A sitting foreign head of state ordinarily enjoys (immunity ratione personae) from criminal arrest and prosecution by other states under customary international law, a principle reaffirmed by the in t...
Illegal immigrants do not possess any special, blanket legal right to “squat” in the United States; squatting is unlawful and subject to trespass and eviction, while the narrow doctrine of adverse pos...
Courts determine whether a defendant’s fear was “reasonable” in self‑defense claims against police by testing both subjective perception and an objective reasonable‑person standard, looking for immine...
A clear legislative trend across 2024–2025 shows states continuing to codify and expand doctrines that reduce duties to retreat and broaden where deadly force is justified, even as some legislatures a...