Actual trade secrets of a company are exempt from discovery and do not have to be disclosed.

The plaintiff must file their lawsuit within a certain time limit called the statute of limitations$.$

State long$-$arm statutes are used to establish subject matter jurisdiction over out$-$of$-$state defendants.

All American taxpayers are permitted to bring any case they want to in federal court at any time.

In recent years, the Supreme Court of the United States has generally accepted only about $12\%$ of the petitions for a Writ of Certiorari made to the court each year.

A particular act can be deemed unethical yet still be legal.

In civil cases, the standard of proof used by state trial courts is a preponderance of the evidence while in federal trial court the standard of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt.