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◦ Am. Jur.

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Can a couple pay a pregnant woman $10,000 in consideration for her giving up the child for adoption?
Do a decedent's siblings have a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress where a radio personality and his guest made remarks during a broadcast about the cremated remains of a decedent, which the guest had brought to the studio.
3. Are laws making adultery a crime unconstitutional
4. Summarize the subject of 7 Am Jur 2d Attorneys at Law §
267

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Can a couple pay a pregnant woman $10,000 in consideration for her giving up the child for adoption?
No—but can pay expenses 2 Am Jur 2d Adoption § 52 et seq
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Is an illegal arrest (one in violation of the Fourth Amendment) require that the criminal charges be dismissed (i.e. defendant cannot be tried)? Give the Am Jur section and cite a
Supreme Court case for your answer.
5 Am Jur 2d Arrest § 129 n4 Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 100 S. Ct. 1371, 63 L. Ed. 2d 639 (1980).
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Do a decedent's siblings have a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress where a radio personality and his guest made remarks during a broadcast about the cremated remains of a decedent, which the guest had brought to the studio.
. Roach v. Stern, 252 A.D.2d 488, 675 N.Y.S.2d 133 (2d Dep't 1998).
22A Am Jur 2d Dead Bodies § 79
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Are laws making adultery a crime unconstitutional
2 Am Jur 2d Adultery and Fornication § 2
Summarize the subject of 7 Am Jur 2d Attorneys at Law § 267
Entitlement to compensation when attorney dies, is incapacitated of is disbarred.

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