United States Code 11, Section 107 (a), of the federal bankruptcy law, is a codification of the common-law general right to inspect judicial records and documents.

McHugh's work has primarily been in the field of common-law aboriginal rights, a topic on which he has published extensively.

The Supreme Court did not reach the statutory question because it held that "the Indians' common-law right to sue is firmly established."

English judges have recently made the point that such women lack the right to exclusive control over their own bodies, formerly considered a fundamental common-law right.

The common-law right of inquiry (a separate level of contact) is activated by a suspicion that criminal activity is afoot and permits a greater intrusion.

All those meetings failed to address the fact that waterfronts are, above all, the means to fulfill the common-law right of public access onto waterways.

The Court of Appeals ruled that there is no common-law right in zoning just because you own it before the law was enacted.

The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, found that the hospital violated Ms. Vega's common-law right of bodily self-determination.

Since then, New York has acted several times to protect patients' common-law right to refuse treatment.

He claimed the publication violated both Georgia's shield law and his common-law right to privacy.