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Organized retail crime (ORC) refers to professional criminal enterprises ranging from regional gangs to international crime rings and other organized crime focussing on retail environments. Operations include truckjacking , shoplifting , smash and grab , cargo theft , and cargo diversion.
Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case which resulted in the decision that police use of a trained detection dog to sniff for narcotics on the front porch of a private home is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and therefore, without consent, requires both probable cause and a search warrant.
Theft (from Old English þeofð, cognate to thief) is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
Extortion is a common law crime in Scotland of using threat of harm to demand money, property or some advantage from another person. It does not matter whether the demand itself is legitimate (such as for money owed) as the crime can still be committed when illegitimate threats of harm are used.
The Law Commission: Consultation Paper No. 134 Criminal Law – Consent and Offences against the Person; A Response on the Issues for Sports and Games' by the Central Council of Physical Recreation, submitted by Peter Lawson, General Secretary, (1995) 3 Sport and the Law Journal 4
Paxton filed a similar lawsuit last August accusing General Motors of installing technology on more than 14 million vehicles since 2015 to collect driver data, which it later sold to insurers and ...
Possession of stolen goods is a crime in which an individual has bought, been given, or acquired stolen goods.. In many jurisdictions, if an individual has accepted possession of goods (or property) and knew they were stolen, then the individual may be charged with a crime, depending on the value of the stolen goods, and the goods are returned to the original owner.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) prohibited state residents from tracking another person without their consent, signing the bill into law Thursday. S.B. 100 is set to take effect in March and makes it ...