Other Business Crime

This is FindLaw’s collection of Other Business Crimes articles, part of the Litigation and Disputes section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Here you will find information on important matters such as how a Federal Grand Jury works, and what to do if you are a crime victim. You’ll also find information on the diverse cultural makeup of many communities and whether or not cultural plurality requires the criminal justice system to modify its approach, particularly in handling recent immigrants. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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Expanding the Reach of Virginia’s Business Conspiracy Act

Over the past two decades, Virginia's state and federal courts have issued a series of opinions that have molded the character of the Virginia Business Conspiracy Act. For years, the decided cases narrowed the scope of the broadly worded statute ...
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Expert Courtroom Testimony in the Closed-Head Injury Case

CLOSED HEAD INJURY is poorly understood by the public in general and by juries of laypersons in particular. It is essential that rehabilitation experts be willing and able to testify in court so that jurors can appreciate the sequelae of closed head ...
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Experts: When to Hold ‘Em, When to Fold ‘Em

One of the most difficult tasks litigators face today is deciding when-and when not-to use experts. In deciding which experts to retain in a specific case, counsel should analyze all issues that could benefit from expert review. Rather than ...
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Expunctions

An expunction is a lawsuit asking a District Court to enter an order that all law enforcement agencies with any records of a person's arrest, (or criminal charges) erase, delete or destroy those records. It is intended to remove all records in the ...
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Failure to Prepare Report Ruled Harmless

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in BullsEye, a newsletter distributed by IMS Expert Services. In what appears to be a case of first impression, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that two experts were not barred ...
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Family Violence: Protective Orders

What is a protective order? A protective order is a court order issued to protect victims of family violence. Family violence is an action or the treat of an action by a member of a "family" or a "household" against another member of the "family ...
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Federal Habeas Corpus Review

: The constitutionality and breadth of the many changes to the law of habeas corpus as the result of recent legislation is currently the subject of multiple court challenges. This overview reflects the law as of September 1999. The practitioner is ...
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Florida DUI Law

Many people being investigated for crimes or who have been charged with crimes fail to exercise the rights that they have under the United States and Florida Constitutions. The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution protects us from ...
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Florida Legislative News

More than 35 percent of all deaths of 15-to 20-year-olds result from motor vehicle crashes; 37 percent of those crashes were alcohol-related. In 1994, 22 percent of 15- to 20-year-olds involved in fatal crashes had some alcohol in their blood. That ...
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For Lawyers And Judges In The Fight Against Drugs, The Repugnant Becomes The Runof The Mill

The scene is Kennedy International Airport. The principals are some drug-enforcement agents and a 36-year-old Nigerian named Ojiabo Onumonu. The key exhibits are 83 condoms---all stuffed with heroin and all carried in Mr. Onumonu's stomach as he ...
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