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  • SOC109 Lecture 18

What is a Case

• A claim on a statute or right to protect against a harm.
• Judicial decisions on cases give practical meaning to the statute or right.
• These decisions inform the rulings for future cases with similar situations or acting around the same statute or right.
• The outcome of one case, can have implications beyond the case.
  • Example: How there was that case of an interracial couple in a yellow car, and they made up bs stats to prove that they are the suspects.