Food Law
This federal agency protects the nation's food supply by ensuring that all food products (except meat, poultry, and certain egg products) are safe and properly labeled.
What is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)?
This is the legal term used when a person or company fails to exercise the necessary care to protect others from unreasonable risk of harm, resulting in injury or damage.
What is Negligence?
This is the standard legal contract an artist signs with a record label to produce and distribute a fixed number of albums.
What is a record deal?
In New York State (including Monroe County), this official document must be obtained from a town or city clerk at least 24 hours before a marriage ceremony.
What is a marriage license?
What does H.R. stand for in a workplace?
What is human resources?
This mandatory label must feature information on calories, fats, sodium, and added sugars.
What is the Nutrition Facts label?
The three essential elements of a legally enforceable contract are Offer, Acceptance, and this.
What is Consideration?
Copying another's literary, creative, or artistic works without permission.
What is infringement?
According to New York State Domestic Relations Law, this is the legal minimum age a person must be to get married.
What is 18 years old?
This federal agency is tasked with ensuring safe and healthful working conditions by setting and enforcing standards in the workplace.
What is OSHA?
Under the FDA, this term is defined as a minor, unintentional addition of a major food allergen that renders a product unsafe, despite the manufacturer following good manufacturing practices.
What is cross-contact?
This is the government-granted intellectual property protection awarded to inventors, giving them the exclusive right to manufacture, use, and sell their invention for a set period.
What is a Patent?
The US Copyright Act contains a provision allowing authors to terminate transfers of copyright and regain their rights after this many years, despite any prior contracts.
What is 35 years?
This type of legal agreement is signed by two people before marriage to specify how assets, debts, and property will be divided in the event of a divorce or death.
What is a Prenuptial Agreement?
This is the legal term for an employee who discloses to the government, media, or upper management that the company is involved in wrongful or illegal activities.
What is a whistleblower?
This agency is housed under the USDA and is responsible for regulating and inspecting meat, poultry, and processed egg products.
What is the FSIS (Food Safety and Inspection Service)?
A legally enforceable agreement that has as its purpose the immediate transfer of title to existing personal property in return for consideration.
What is a contract for sale?
This organization, alongside BMI and SESAC, is tasked with collecting public performance royalties and distributing them to songwriters and publishers.
What is ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)?
This is the legal term for financial support paid by one spouse to the other during a separation or following a divorce.
What is an alimony/spousal support?
This is the legal doctrine prevalent in the US stating that an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason, and without warning, as long as it isn't illegal.
What is at-will employment?
In 2013, a major scandal broke in the UK and Ireland when DNA testing revealed that major manufacturers were secretly using this animal's meat in products labeled as beef to save money.
What is horse?
This is the legal term for a written contract where one party allows another party to use their trademark, patent, or proprietary knowledge in exchange for royalties.
What is a licensing agreement?
In 1997, The Rolling Stones sued The Verve claiming their massive hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony" used an unauthorized ________ of an orchestral version of their song "The Last Time."
What is a sample?
This Latin term translates roughly to "for the sake of the argument," and is used to describe a ceremony that is staged or not legally valid.
What is pro forma?
This federal law guarantees eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave each year for specified family and medical reasons.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?