Cease-and-Desist Letter

State Bar text of rule 3.10: a lawyer shall not threaten to present criminal, administrative or disciplinary charges to obtain an advantage in a civil dispute, with the rule's definitions of administrative charges and…

A debt collector may not communicate with the debtor's employer about the debt except as the section allows, may not communicate with the debtor's family or others except as listed, may not publish lists of debtors, and…

It is unlawful for a debt collector, creditor or attorney to send a communication that simulates legal or judicial process or appears to be authorized by a governmental agency or attorney when it is not, and a violation…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Connecticut anti-SLAPP statute: it defines matter of public concern, the rights of free speech, petition and association, and the special motion to dismiss, and the later subsections set the motion's timing, the stay of…

Definitions for Connecticut's trademark chapter: trademark, service mark, mark (whether registered or not), trade name, person, and the further terms the section lists.

Unfair trade practices text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Connecticut criminal harassment definition: a person commits harassment in the second degree by communicating by mail, electronic message, telephone or other means, or by posting to an online meeting space, with intent…

Connecticut trademark infringement rule: a person who uses in Connecticut without the registrant's consent a reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitation of a mark registered under the chapter in a way likely…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Sections 36a-645 through -648 define the covered creditor and consumer debt, prohibit specified conduct and provide the creditor-action requirements, defenses and one-year limit.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Delaware's Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which reaches misrepresentations about the characteristics or quality of goods and services including in a real estate transaction.

Scope section of Delaware's Uniform Public Expression Protection Act, which replaced the repealed sections 8136 to 8138 of this title: the chapter applies to a civil cause of action based on a person's communication in…

Delaware anti-SLAPP motion: within sixty days after service of a pleading asserting a covered cause of action, or later for good cause, the party may file a special motion for expedited relief to dismiss the cause of…

Delaware fee-shifting rule for the special motion: the court must award costs, reasonable attorneys' fees and litigation expenses to a moving party that prevails, or to a responding party that prevails where the motion…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Consumer fraud scope text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Consumer fraud scope text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

The remedies for a deceptive trade practice, including injunctive relief and the section's fee provision. The claim a buyer brings where a seller misrepresented the property.

Delaware trademark infringement rule: subject to common-law rights under section 3315, a person who uses without the registrant's consent a reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitation of a mark registered…

D.C. Bar text of Rule 8.4: paragraph (g) makes it professional misconduct to seek or threaten to seek criminal charges or disciplinary charges solely to obtain an advantage in a civil matter, alongside the general…

District of Columbia definitions for the Anti-SLAPP Act: an act in furtherance of the right of advocacy on issues of public interest covers statements in connection with matters under official consideration, statements…

District of Columbia text: a party may file a special motion to dismiss a claim arising from an act in furtherance of the right of advocacy on issues of public interest within 45 days of service, the motion is granted…

District of Columbia text: the court may award a prevailing movant the costs of litigation including reasonable attorney fees, and may award fees to the responding party only where the motion was frivolous or intended…

District of Columbia text: the Anti-SLAPP Act does not apply to claims against a person primarily engaged in selling or leasing goods or services where the statement is a representation of fact made to promote or…

Section 28-3814 covers defined consumer debt and can include original creditors and debt buyers, but its scope excludes specified real-estate-secured and direct motor-vehicle installment loans.

Lists the prohibited practices and states that a violation occurs whether or not any consumer is in fact misled, deceived or damaged.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Florida text defining the terms of the state trademark chapter, including abandoned, applicant and the further terms including mark, registrant and trade name.

Unfair trade practices text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Florida text stating the Legislature's intent to protect free speech in connection with public issues and the rights to assemble and petition, and barring a person or governmental entity from filing a lawsuit, claim or…

Florida text requiring a plaintiff, before suing for a libel or slander published or broadcast in a newspaper, periodical or other medium, to serve written notice on the defendant at least 5 days before filing,…

Florida text limiting the plaintiff to actual damages where the article or broadcast was published in good faith, its falsity was due to an honest mistake, there were reasonable grounds to believe it true, and a full…

Florida text defining harass as a course of conduct directed at a specific person causing substantial emotional distress and serving no legitimate purpose, course of conduct, credible threat and cyberstalk, and making…

Rule 4-3.4 read out of The Florida Bar's edition of chapter 4: a lawyer must not unlawfully obstruct access to evidence, fabricate evidence or improperly induce a witness, disobey a tribunal's rules, abuse discovery, or…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Consumer means an actual or prospective purchaser, lessee or recipient of consumer goods, services, realty or credit, and expressly includes a co-obligor or surety for a consumer.

The enumerated practices include any false or misleading statement with the capacity, tendency or effect of deceiving consumers; failure to state a material fact if the failure deceives or tends to deceive;

Maryland anti-SLAPP statute: a suit is a SLAPP suit if brought in bad faith against a party who communicated with a government body or the public to exercise First Amendment or Declaration of Rights rights on a matter…

Maryland trademark infringement and remedies section: a person may not use, without the registrant's consent, a reproduction or colorable imitation of a mark registered under the subtitle in a way likely to confuse or…

Maryland text making it a misdemeanor, with a daily fine, to do business with intent to defraud under or imitating a name, title or trade name the same as or similar to one already used by another person in the State,…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Massachusetts retraction statute: a libel defendant who gives written notice of an intended retraction with a copy, and publishes it, may prove the plaintiff's non-acceptance in mitigation;

Business unfair trade remedies text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Text of Massachusetts Rule of Professional Conduct 3.4 as published by the Supreme Judicial Court: paragraph (h) provides that a lawyer shall not present, participate in presenting, or threaten to present criminal or…

Massachusetts trademark infringement rule: a person who uses without the registrant's consent a reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitation of a mark registered under the chapter in a way likely to cause…

Massachusetts dilution rule: likelihood of injury to business reputation or of dilution of the distinctive quality of a registered mark, a common-law mark or a common-law trade name is a ground for injunctive relief…

Massachusetts trademark remedies: the owner of a registered mark may sue to enjoin counterfeits or imitations, the superior court may award profits and damages and order destruction, and may enter judgment for up to…

Massachusetts right-of-publicity statute: a person whose name, portrait or picture is used in the commonwealth for advertising or trade without written consent may sue in the superior court to restrain the use and…

Massachusetts anti-SLAPP statute: a party sued over its exercise of the right of petition may bring a special motion to dismiss, which the court advances and grants unless the claimant shows the petitioning was devoid…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Scope section of New Jersey's Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (P.L.2023, c.155): the act applies to a cause of action asserted in a civil action against a person based on the person's communication in or about…

On an order to show cause under 2A:53A-51 the court must award court costs, reasonable attorney's fees and reasonable litigation expenses to the moving party if it prevails, or to the responding party if it prevails and…

In a libel action against the owner, manager, editor, publisher or reporter of a newspaper, magazine, periodical or other publication in this State, the plaintiff recovers only actual damages proved and specially…

Not later than 60 days after service of a pleading asserting a covered cause of action, or later on good cause, the party may apply for an order to show cause to dismiss the cause of action or part of it.

The court must dismiss with prejudice a covered cause of action, or part of it, where the moving party shows the act applies, the responding party fails to show it does not, and either the responding party fails to…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Using a living person's name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice for advertising or trade purposes without prior written consent (or a minor's parent's consent) is a misdemeanor. The civil remedy is in § 51.

Civil remedy for misappropriation of name or likeness: an equitable action in Supreme Court to restrain the use, damages, and exemplary damages for a knowing use, with the section's exceptions for material sold to…

Anti-SLAPP remedy: a defendant in an action involving public petition and participation may recover costs and attorney's fees on a showing (including under CPLR 3211(g) or 3212(h)) that the action lacked a substantial…

Anti-SLAPP definition: an action involving public petition and participation is a claim based on a communication in a public forum on an issue of public interest or other lawful conduct in furtherance of free speech or…

In a libel or slander action the defendant may prove mitigating circumstances, including the sources of information and grounds for belief, and mitigating matter is a partial defense pleadable in the answer.

Article 29-H definitions require review before applying its conduct provisions. The latest public publisher read failed on September 14, 2026;

Definitions for the state trademark article: "trademark", "service mark", "mark", "trade name", "registrant" and related terms, with "mark" covering marks entitled to registration whether registered or not.

Definition of harassment in the second degree, a violation: with intent to harass, annoy or alarm, striking or threatening physical contact, following a person in public, or a course of conduct that alarms or seriously…

Definition of aggravated harassment in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor: threatening communications by telephone, computer, mail or other means intended to harass and reasonably causing fear of harm, telephone…

The six-year period for an action upon a contractual obligation or liability, express or implied, which remains the limitation for non-consumer debt and for consumer obligations that fall outside the CPLR 214-i…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Rule 1.2 read out of the Supreme Court of Ohio's rulebook: the lawyer abides by the client's decisions on objectives and on settlement, consults on the means, may take impliedly authorized action, and under division (c)…

Ohio text defining trademark, service mark and the other terms of the state registration sections 1329.54 to 1329.67.

Ohio text making a person liable in a civil action by the registrant for using, without consent, a reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitation of a mark registered under sections 1329.54 to 1329.67 in…

Ohio text allowing the owner of a state-registered mark to sue to enjoin the manufacture, use, display or sale of counterfeits or imitations, and allowing the court to grant injunctions, award the defendant's profits…

Ohio text requiring a newspaper company that prints, publishes or circulates a false statement, allegation or rumor about a person, organization, firm, public official or candidate to print, on demand of the person…

Ohio text requiring the newspaper company, once demand is made under section 2739.13, to print the statement in the next regular issue or within forty-eight hours, without additions or omissions, in the same ink, type,…

Ohio text defining the terms of the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act, including goods or services, governmental unit and person, and going on to state the causes of action the chapter applies to, namely those…

Ohio text making it an offense to knowingly make a telecommunication with purpose to harass, intimidate or abuse a person, to make the sexual, threatening or repeated communications the section lists, or to permit such…

Ohio text listing the deceptive trade practices actionable under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, beginning with passing off goods or services as another's, causing likelihood of confusion as to source, sponsorship,…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

A person commits harassment when, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another, the person subjects the other to physical contact or threatens it, follows the other in a public place, engages in a course of conduct…

Definitions for the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (Act 72 of 2024): protected public expression is a person's communication in or about a legislative, executive, judicial or administrative proceeding, or the…

In a defamation action the plaintiff must prove, when the issue is properly raised, the defamatory character of the communication, its publication by the defendant, its application to the plaintiff, the recipient's…

Unfair trade practices and consumer protection law text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

The subchapter applies to a cause of action based on protected public expression, with exclusions for claims by or against government units and their agents acting officially, claims against a seller or lessor of goods…

A person is immune from civil liability for a cause of action based on protected public expression if the claimant fails to establish a prima facie case as to each essential element or to state a cause of action, or if…

A party may file a special motion for dismissal of or judgment on a cause of action based on protected public expression immunity, generally within 60 days of service of the pleading, and the court must hear argument…

Rule 4.04 read out of the Supreme Court of Texas's compilation of the Disciplinary Rules, effective March 7, 2025: a lawyer may not use means that have no substantial purpose other than to embarrass, delay or burden a…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Texas text defining the terms of the state trademark chapter, including applicant, dilution, dilution by blurring and the further terms including mark, registrant and trade name.

Texas text defining the terms of the Texas Citizens Participation Act, including communication, exercise of the right of association, exercise of the right of free speech as a communication on a matter of public…

Texas text stating that a person may maintain a defamation action only if the person made a timely and sufficient request for a correction, clarification or retraction or the defendant made one, that a request is timely…

Texas text stating that a correction, clarification or retraction is timely if made within 30 days of the request or of the information requested under section 73.056, and sufficient if published in the same manner and…

Texas text stating that if a correction, clarification or retraction is made in accordance with the subchapter, whether or not requested, exemplary damages may not be recovered unless the publication was made with…

Texas text prohibiting a debt collector from oppressing, harassing or abusing a person by using profane or abusive language, placing calls without disclosing the caller's name with intent to annoy or harass, causing a…

Virginia State Bar text of Rule 3.4, sliced from the complete rules PDF: paragraph (i) forbids a lawyer to present or threaten to present criminal or disciplinary charges solely to obtain an advantage in a civil matter,…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Virginia trademark infringement provision: subject to § 59.1-92.15, a person who without the owner's consent uses a reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitation of a registered mark in a manner likely to cause…

Virginia remedies for infringement of a registered mark: the owner may sue to enjoin violations of § 59.1-92.12, recover the defendant's profits and the owner's damages, obtain destruction or delivery of infringing…

Virginia anti-SLAPP provision: a person is immune from tort liability for a claim based solely on statements on matters of public concern protected by the First Amendment and communicated to a third party, statements to…

Virginia insulting-words statute: all words are actionable which from their usual construction and common acceptance are construed as insults and tend to violence and breach of the peace.

Consumer protection exclusions text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.