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...or intermeddling with a chattel in the possession of another.” The common law form of trespass requires actual harm with intent to harm and physical cont ...ages to its employees over the company’s email system Hamidi committed the tort of trespass to chattels. Intel alleged that its technical staff spent time ...

...ted by copyright law and (ii) where the particular work to which the state law claim is being applied falls within the type of works protected by the Copy ...he copyright rule of preemption that allows an individual to bring a state law misappropriation claim for “hot news.” National Basketball Ass’n v. Motorol ...

...y that property or contracts are, as it is a domain covering many areas of law and regulation. Some leading topics include [[intellectual property]], [[p ...sdictional code, legal practitioners are generally left with a conflict of law issue. ...

...per. Ct., 149 Cal. App. 3d 409, 417 (1983). It derives from the common law tort of invasion of the right of privacy, which historically included a cause of ...nees of deceased persons. Civil Code Section 3344.1. New York Civil Rights Law sections 50 and 51 create a private right of action against the nonconsensu ...

...at trademark. However, registration is not required. The owner of a common law trademark may also file suit, but an unregistered mark may be protectable o ...imes be called a service mark, particularly in the United States trademark law. ...

...urisdiction]]. Fraud is a crime, and also a [[Civil law (common law)|civil law]] violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a commo Common law fraud has nine elements: ...

...d. The Court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state law claim in the interest of comity. ...purposes of the Stored Communications Act. The court further held that the law excepted from liability defendants’ accessing of those cookies as a party t ...

...shelters the right to speak anonymously. See Buckley v. Am. Constitutional Law Foundation, 525 U.S. 182, 200 (1999) (invalidating, on First Amendment grou ...nymously with each other so long as those acts are not in violation of the law. This ability to speak one’s mind without the burden of the other party kno ...

# Marczeski v. Law, 122 F.Supp.2d 315, 327 (D. Conn. 2000) (individual who created private “ch ...nc. v. Keynetics, Inc., 422 F. Supp. 2d 523 (D. Md. 2006) (state anti-spam law); Doe v. MySpace, 528 F.3d 413 (5th Cir. 2008). (negligence and gross negli ...

...App. 3d 71, 76 (1989) (statute runs from date of “publication”). At common law, a statement is “published” each time the statement is distributed or utter ...privilege for communications among “interested parties.” A typical common law privilege, it provides that a defendant who makes a statement to others on ...

...fsky v. Gilmore, 167 F.3d 191 (4th Cir. 1999). The court upheld a Virginia law restricting state employees from accessing “sexually explicit” material on ...e to plaintiffs, and the grave constitutional concerns raised by attaching tort liability to ideas and images provided an additional policy reason not to i ...