Many studies find that there is a strong relationship between: a. a well-functioning legal system and the birth rate b. the level of corruption and life expectancy c. a well-functioning legal system and the number of prisons d. a well-functioning legal system and the level of economic development e. none of the other choices The doctrine of stare decisis can be defined as: a. laws setting forth rules for relationships between people b. none of the other choices are correct _c. a private or civil wrong that results in injury to another e d. the use of prior case decisions as guidance in resolving later disputes o e decisions concerning legal wrongs or crimes committed against society Judges are protected from damages caused by bad decisions they make on the bench by judicial immunity a. True b. False Pensylvania, the application of common law in adventy of cinsip case in federal de In Brie Railroad rompico, where Tompkins was hit by a New York while federal cour t follow procedural law of the Wales which it is located cont r e Court decided that bfederal courts may apply either state or federal como law to resolve a case before it the common law of the appropriate state must be applied in cases in federal court d federal courts must follow federal common law in all dispuns before them one of the other chances are correct