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Suppose you turn on your laptop while sitting at the kitchen table at home and respond OK to a prompt about accessing a nearby wireless Internet access point owned and operated by a neighbor. What potential liability may ensue from accessing someone else's wireless access point? How about...
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Although data breaches at large corporations are the ones that make the news, smaller businesses, easy prey for hackers, are just as likely to be targeted. Small businesses have neither the financial resources nor the technological skills to mount multi-faceted defenses against cybercriminals....
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The purpose of this Essay is to analyze the treatment and the types of tort and strict liability claims that courts are likely to redirect toward the Code's Article 2 remedies. This Essay examines the typical application of the economic loss doctrine, including the bargain policy underlying the...
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This Article observes that there is not a clear consensus among courts in how to describe the scope and nature of a breach of the peace when a lender elects self-help repossession and things go awry. That does not mean that courts have not deduced some guideposts that parties can use in deciding...
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This Article observes that there is not a clear consensus among courts in how to address the scope and nature of the economic loss doctrine, when applied to sales of goods. The economic loss doctrine's categorization of damages into three components: personal injury, injury to the product, and...
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This article argues that punitive, nominal, contemptuous, vindicatory, and disgorgement damages (commonly referred to as non-compensatory damages) can be collectively analysed as public interest damages because all these awards are justified by violations of public interests in addition to...
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There is an interesting exception to businesses’, employers’, and service providers’ seemingly universal embrace of arbitration processes, particularly mandatory pre-dispute arbitration. Although it may be difficult to believe given arbitration’s current popularity, not everyone requires...
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