______: Each branch has its own powers assigned to them

______: Keeps one from becoming too powerful

Speech the gov can’t prohibit (includes symbols)

Criticizing the gov, political speech

Can limit it by time, place, manner restriction

Offensive and commercial speech

Speech that isn't protected

Dangerous speech, Revolutionary, Defamation

Prohibits gov from establishing a state religion or promoting one over the other

Prohibits gov from interfering with the free exercise of religion

Probits gov from depriving people of life, liberty, and property without due process

The threat of immediate harm

Unauthorized and harmful offensive direct or indirect contact that causes harm

Intentional confinement or restraint of another person w/o authority or justification w/o consent

1. A false statement by one person. In court, one must prove that statement was false and intentionally/accidentally published

Allows merchants to stop, detain, and investigate suspected shoplifters w/o being falsely imprisoned as long as there are reasonable grounds for suspicion and reasonable time

1st Element of Negligence

2nd Element of Negligence

3rd Element of Negligence

4th Element of Negligence

The obligation not to hurt each other

Not acting like a reasonable person

Personal injury to a person or property

The action caused injury

Action caused a foreseeable outcome

Liability without fault and everyone in the chain of distribution are liable

Most strict, clean hands doctrine, you have to have zero fault

Compare fault of parties, 20% one part 80% other, punitory damages

A formula, design, customer list, or other secret sets a business apart from competitors

 Grant by the federal gov upon inventors for inventors for the exclusive right to use sell, or license for a limited time

Tangible writing that can be physically seen

 Any name, symbol, word, logo, design, or device used to identify and distinguish goods of a manufacturer or seller or services of a provider

Which do you have to file for?

Which are requirments for patents?

Been in the market less than a year to get a patent