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  title info:
    title: Fighting over words
    sub title: language and civil law cases
  name:
    name part: Shuy, Roger W.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Trials, litigation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Civil law cases offer many examples of language being at the center of human conflict. Contract disputes, truth in advertising, product warning labels, plagiarism, etc. often boil down to a matter of language - its meaning and usage. This book analyzes 18 civil cases in which language framed the battleground.
  table of contents: "Or" in a group insurance policy: Peter Koehn v. Continental Casualty Company -- Exclusive marketing services: Matrixx v. New Strategies Productions -- Conditions of a key employee agreement: EMC Corporation v. Jeffrey E. Allen -- Interpreting state code: State of Nevada v. Preferred Equities Corporation -- Competing conveying system advertisements: Dynamic Air v. Flexicon Corporation -- Nicotine patch advertisements: The States of Arizona, California, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Texas v. Ciba-Geigy Corporation -- Certificates of deposit advertisements: Harold Ackerman v. Royal Bank of Pennsylvania -- Brain damage from a cleaning product: Pedro Lassera v. Magniflux Corporation -- Carbon monoxide poisoning: Eva Andrews et al. v. Generac Corporation -- Toxic shock syndrome from tampons: Krystal H. Rinehart v. International Playtex -- Toxic gas in the cockpit: ProForm and National Insurance Company v. The Garrett Corporation -- A book turned into a pamphlet: St. Martins Press and Robert Sikorsky v. Vickers Petroleum Corporation -- Racial steering in real estate: HOME v. Havens Realty Corporation -- Age discrimination: Richard Hannye v. General Electric Company -- Retaliatory termination discrimination: David E. Benekritis v. Renny Earl Johnson and the Darlington County School District -- Ownership of the words "wood-roasted": Woodroast Systems v. Restaurants Unlimited -- Battle over antifreeze: Warren Distribution v. Prestone Products Corporation -- False representation in a government contract: United States of America v. United Technologies Corporation -- How linguists can help in corporate civil cases.
  note: Roger W. Shuy.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Interpretation and construction
  subject:
    topic: Civil law
    genre: Cases
  subject:
    topic: Droit
    topic: Interprétation
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Jurisprudence
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: General Practice
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Reference
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Essays
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Paralegals & Paralegalism
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Practical Guides
  subject:
    topic: Civil law
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Interpretation and construction
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Language
  classification: K213 .S58 2008eb
  classification: 340/.14
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    title info:
      title: Fighting over words
    name:
      name part: Shuy, Roger W.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
    identifier: (DLC) 2007016428
    identifier: (OCoLC)123539488
  identifier: 019804402X
  identifier: 9780198044024
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 080220
    record change date: 20260318173228.5
    record identifier: in00005702597
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng