Chapter 1
If you break this type of law, the government may punish you with jail, fines, or both
What is criminal law?
These are laws passed by legislatures.
What are statutory laws?
This is an unauthorized outsider who gains access to another's computer system.
What is a hacker?
This is an obligation entered into before a court to do an act required by law.
What is recognizance?
This is the destruction of another's free will to obtain consent to a contract as a result of threats of harm.
What is duress?
This is a custom that came to be recognized by the courts as binding on the community and therefore law.
What is common law?
What are long-arm statues?
This is what we call the person who causes the injury.
What is tortfeasor?
This means someone is benefiting at the expense of another.
What is unjust enrichment?
This is a false statement of material fact.
What is misrepresentation?
These are court orders that permanently prohibit an action.
What are injunctions?
What is the U.S. Courts of Appeals?
This term is used when the impression a product gives to consumers results in confusion of the origins of the product.
What is unfair competition?
This law was passed in 1980 to deal with hazardous waste that was already causing problems.
What is the Comprehensive Environmental, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
This term means to threaten to injure another person financially to get an agreement or contract.
What is economic duress?
This is the Supreme law of the Land
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This is a written request to the court to settle a dispute.
What is a complaint or petition?
This is a special or trade meaning developed by usage that distinguishes the goods or services so as to warrant trademark protection.
What is secondary meaning?
This agency enforces economic and trade sanctions imposed by the United States.
What is the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
This means to set a contract aside.
What is rescind?
These are crimes that can be charged as either misdemeanors or felonies.
What are wobblers?
This is the type of court that handles estates.
What is probate court?
These 4 things must be proven for a plaintiff to show a business is in violation of RICO.
What are ...
1. conduct
2. of an enterprise (at least two people)
3. through a pattern
4. racketeering activity
This agency examines the safety of nuclear power facilities.
What is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
This describes when a person makes a contract based on false statements of terms or obligations.
What is fraud in the inducement?