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Litigation

Jan. 8, 2000

Global Reach

Having a website is dangerous because people can sue businesses located anywhere.

By Randy B. Holman
        Having a website is dangerous because people can sue businesses located anywhere. With the explosion of commercial activity on the Internet, both business-to-business and business-to-consumers, courts across the country are facing the challenge of adapting established jurisdictional principles based on notions of territorial sovereignty to new technologies not ...

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