A person who has a connection or relationship. A person who may have a bias as a result of direct involvement. … [Read more...]

Intervening; interposed during the progress of a suit proceeding, business, etc., or between its beginning and end. Intermediate account. In probate law. An account of an executor, administrator, or guardian filed subsequent to his first or initial account and before his final account. Specifically in New York, an account filed with the surrogate for the purpose of disclosing … [Read more...]

A witness in a case at trial who may be personally affected by the outcome of the case and an indication of a likely bias towards an outcome that favors the witness. … [Read more...]

A middle level of scrutiny as to the necessity of a statute or law that may infringe upon the rights of people who belong to a quasi-suspect class (as opposed to a fundamental class) of people. This level of scrutiny requires that the law infringing upon rights must involve an important governmental interest and also be substantially related to the accomplishment of important … [Read more...]

In patent law, a procedure to resolve a conflict that occurs when two or more patent applications have been filed on the same invention. When this happens, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) examines a number of factors in order to determine who gets the patent, including who first conceived of the invention and worked on it diligently, who first built and tested the … [Read more...]