Definition of "nondomestic" [nondomestic]

• Not domestic: foreign (adjective)

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• "On the federal level, plaintiffs first charged that their equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were being violated, given that assaulted black women were not protected equally relative to assaulted white women and white men, and that women assaulted at home were not protected equally relative to victims of nondomestic assaults."
• "When police systematically refused to arrest abusive partners, they failed to protect battered women to the same extent that they protected men or victims of nondomestic (i.e., "stranger") violence."
• "Note 98: Given the wide range of cases through which courts developed standards of immunity and liability at this time — including both domestic violence and nondomestic-violence cases — it appears that the standards did not discriminate, at least on the surface, between officers 'responses to "public" violence (for instance, a bar fight) and "private" violence (such as domestic abuse)."