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TORT MISCELLANEOUS EVID/WIT/TRIAL JURIES PROCEDURE/RULES DAMAGES: Because the economic-loss doctrine does not apply to intentional torts, the plaintiffs, who sought damages for conversion and invasion of privacy, could recover damages for purely economic loss. While, at common law, the general rule was that only tangible chattels could be converted, courts have held that identifiable intangible property, such as email accounts and domain names, can be converted. Conversion is the wrongful exercise of dominion over property in exclusion of the owners right, or the withholding of property from the owners possession under a claim inconsistent with the owners rights; therefore, testimony by the brother and sister of an account owner that they could no longer access their websi...
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Conversion, tangible property, intangible property, directed verdict, judgment notwithstanding the verdict, Civ.R. 50(A), Civ.R. 50(B), manifest weight, character evidence.
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... that the common-law cause of action of conversion applies to certain electronic computer records and... information and other company property. The Facts. Plaintiff Louis Thyroff was an indepen... cause of action for the conversion of intangible property. The Second Circuit found that the law wa...
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... of traditional choice-of-law, tort, and property principles to an increasingly common factual setti...Count 1 charged conversion of the domain names and conspiring to convert them..., the plaintiffs' domain names were intangible personal property. The court conducted a governmen...
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... taking or retention of tangible personal property" as opposed to intangible computer data. In re Rob...
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- Gary Kremen, an Individual, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Online Classifieds, Inc., a Delaware Company, Plaintiff, v. Stephen Michael Cohen, an Individual; Ocean Fund International Ltd., a Foreign Company; Sand Man Internacional Ltd., a Foreign Company; Sporting Houses Management Corporation, a Nevada Company; Sporting Houses of America, a Nevada Company; Sporting Houses General Inc., a Nevada Company; William Douglas, Sir, an Individual; v. Bank (Bvi) Limited, a Foreign Company; Andrew Keuls, an Individual; Montano Properties Llc, a California Limited Liability Company; Ynata Ltd., Defendants, and Network Solutions, a Delaware Company, Defendant-Appellee., 325 F.3d 1035 (9th Cir. 2003)
... Internet domain names and the tort of conversion. This particular case centers on the domain name "... Internet domain name within the scope of property subject to the tort of conversion?. (a) For the toort of conversion to apply to intangible property, is it necessary that the intangible prop...
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... the common-law cause of action of conversion applies to certain electronic computer records and... cause of action for the conversion of intangible property. The Second Circuit determined that the i...
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... Internet domain names and the tort of conversion. This particular case centers on the domain name "... Internet domain name within the scope of property subject to the tort of conversion? (a) For the torrt of conversion to apply to intangible property, is it necessary that the intangible prop...
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Contract Law
Negative averment
... began looking to purchase commercial property in the Baltimore/Washington area. Wilkens Square, ...312, 324 (1999). Torts. Conversion. BOTTOM LINE: Where plaintiff accused defendant of...This claim asserted intangible property rights. In Allied Inv. Corp. v. Jasen, 35...
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... Internet domain names and the tort of conversion. This particular case centers on the domain name "... Internet domain name within the scope of property subject to the tort of conversion? (a) For the torrt of conversion to apply to intangible property, is it necessary that the intangible prop...