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  2. Criminal copyright law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The civil statute imposes strict liability for infringement and high statutory damages while a wide range of behaviors could fall under the criminal statutes. The conflation of the lower civil thresholds with criminal penalties is more likely where there is no clear guidance, as with legislators trusting the courts to interpret “willfulness ...

  3. Culpability - Wikipedia

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    In strict liability crimes, the actor is responsible no matter what his mental state; if the result occurs, the actor is liable. An example is the felony murder rule: if the prosecution proves beyond reasonable doubt that one commits a qualifying felony (see the article) during which death results, one is held strictly liable for murder and the ...

  4. Legal liability - Wikipedia

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    In law, liable means "responsible or answerable in law; legally obligated". [1] Legal liability concerns both civil law and criminal law and can arise from various areas of law, such as contracts, torts, taxes, or fines given by government agencies. The claimant is the one who seeks to establish, or prove, liability.

  5. Missouri Republican bill could shield ‘stand your ground ...

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    The bill, filed by Sen. Jill Carter, a Granby Republican, states that no individual can be found civilly liable for damages for conduct found to be justified under state law.

  6. Scienter - Wikipedia

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    Scienter is generally used as a necessary condition of certain causes of civil action and as a standard for civil liability or criminal guilt.For instance, Section 1960 of Title 18 of the United States Code provides a scienter condition, requiring that the accused "knowingly conducts, controls, manages, supervises, directs, or owns" a prohibited type of business.

  7. Tort - Wikipedia

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    Tort liability in France (responsabilité extracontractuelle) is a distinct system which has developed over the course of history stemming from the Napoleonic Code [86] which, together with the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, forms the basis for private law in the majority of civil law countries with civil codes.

  8. Civil penalty - Wikipedia

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    For example, failure to pay a fine assessed for a traffic code violation may result in administrative suspension of a driver's license, and further driving after suspension may be a criminal offense. On the other hand, a minimal case may be "put on file", or otherwise suspended for a period during which the defendant may be required to avoid ...

  9. Willful ignorance - Wikipedia

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    In law, willful ignorance is when a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping themselves unaware of facts that would render them liable or implicated. [1] [2] In United States v.