Sentences with phrase «trade practice statutes»

We also have significant experience in administrative and other regulatory litigation, including agency rule challenges, regulatory investigations under state and federal false claims acts and unfair trade practice statutes, and defending clients in related individual and class action civil suits.

The States believe the practices prohibited under § 310 (a) are already prohibited by the FTC Act and state unfair and deceptive trade practices statutes.

Thompson will, in the days and weeks ahead, be contacting state and federal officials to stop the improper sales of Grand Theft Auto IV to anyone under seventeen years of age, as any such sales violate state and federal fraudulent and deceptive trade practices statutes.

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Of those statutes and regulations, two parts of the unfair trade practice laws are of the most concern to a retailer.

Both the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission found the practices «improper and likely in violation of statutes and regulations,» stated the GAO report, which was delivered as testimony to Congress on May 26.

You will not, and will not allow or authorize others to, use the Services, the Sites or any Materials therein to take any actions that: (i) infringe on PetSmart Charities» or any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual or proprietary rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including those regarding export control); (iii) are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, stalking, harassment, abusive, tortuous, hateful, constitute discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sex, disability or other protected grounds, or are pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on PetSmart Charities or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices, or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate any applicable «anti-spam» legislation, including that commonly referred to as «CASL»; (vii) would be or encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international laws or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interference with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of PetSmart Charities» or another party's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other account users or attempt to gain access to other account users» accounts or otherwise mine information about other account users or the Sites, or interfere with any other user's ability to access or use the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) in PetSmart Charities» sole discretion, are contrary to PetSmart Charities» public image, goodwill, reputation or mission, or otherwise not in furtherance of our Vision of a lifelong, loving home for every pet.

You will not, and will not allow or authorize others to, use the Services or the Sites to take any actions that: (i) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including those regarding export control); (iii) are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, stalking, harassment, abusive, tortuous, hateful, discriminatory based on race, ethnicity, gender, sex or disability, pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on the Animal League or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN - SPAM Act of 2003); (vii) would encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, federal or international laws, rules or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interfere with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of the Animal League's or other's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other Animal League members, Site users or attempt to gain access to other Animal League members information, or otherwise mine information about Animal League members, Site users, or the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) are contrary to the Animal League's public image, goodwill, reputation or mission or otherwise not in furtherance of the Animal Leagues stated purposes.

[138] She referred to two of English authorities where statutes disqualifying certain people from practicing a trade or profession on account of criminal conduct were held to operate retrospectively.

He represented clients in the pharmaceutical sector in matters alleging violations of the False Claims Act, unfair trade practices, consumer protection statutes, and common law.

Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act is a broadly worded statute that prohibits «deceptive» and «unfair» trade practTrade Practices Act is a broadly worded statute that prohibits «deceptive» and «unfair» trade practtrade practices.

For almost 130 principles and rules of transnational law, like «venire contra factum proprium», «duty to mitigate» or «compensation for expropriation», the TransLex - Principles provide the user with their black letter text and comprehensive references taken from international arbitral awards, domestic statutes, international conventions, standard contract forms, trade practices and usages, other sample clauses and academic sources.

Mr. McIndoe and Mr. Sweeney have developed vibrant practices representing energy companies and members of the financial industry in the areas of commodities and derivatives regulation, compliance and transactions impacted by the Dodd - Frank Act and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rules mandated by the statute.

The court rejected the Listing Broker's argument, finding that the trial court had properly found that the Listing Broker had engaged in a deceptive trade practice when it misrepresented the sewer access and therefore the Buyers could collect attorney's fees pursuant to the statute.

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts held that a landlord was not liable under a state statute making unlawful any «unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce» where he leased an apartment to a young, childless couple without disclosing the possibility of lead paint in the apartment.

The consumer protection act is designed to protect the public from unsavory business practices, and a practice or act in commerce which is a violation of a statute or regulation is one way a party can establish a claim under the consumer trade practices law.

In general, the laws, rules and regulations that apply to our business practices include, without limitation, the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the federal Fair Housing Act, the Dodd - Frank Act, and federal advertising and other laws, as well as comparable state statutes; rules of trade organization such as NAR, local MLSs, and state and local AORs; licensing requirements and related obligations that could arise from our business practices relating to the provision of services other than real estate brokerage services; privacy regulations relating to our use of personal information collected from the registered users of our websites; laws relating to the use and publication of information through the Internet; and state real estate brokerage licensing requirements, as well as statutory due diligence, disclosure, record keeping and standard - of - care obligations relating to these licenses.