Sentence examples for intent requirement from inspiring English sources

The Second Circuit held that the government's case did not satisfy this contemporaneous fraudulent intent requirement.

Ms. Copelon also points out that the United States has been trying for years to write a specific intent requirement into international law on torture.

"If there were an intent requirement, it wouldn't matter" whether the other factors referred to in the statute were reasonable or not, Justice Scalia said, adding, "It could be any factor, as long as it was not age".

[FN181] Such language would, of course, preclude a joint work under either intent requirement, and leave any derivative work an infringement, again assuming sufficient use and the absence of exemptions.

In addition to narrowing the intent requirement for the creation of a joint work, some courts have restricted the scope of joint work doctrine beyond that provided by the Copyright Act with respect to the nature of a joint author's contribution.

[FN156] If the intent requirement for a joint work stated in the Copyright Act is applied (i.e., the intent for contributions to merge), [FN157] a serial collaboration may be a joint work if the first author produced her work with the intent that others might add to it.

The state now has over 3,000 crimes, many of which lack intent requirements.

Many of these have poor intent requirements, meaning people are being locked up not to keep the rest of society safe, but for technical violations of laws they may not have known existed.

Criminal violations for mishandling classified information all have intent requirements; in other words, in order to be guilty of a crime, there must be evidence that Clinton knew that the information was classified and intentionally disclosed it to an unauthorized person.

It is unknown what mental element is expected in cases of trespass to goods; while trespass to the person requires intent, the requirements for trespass to goods have never been tested in court.

That meant that he lacked criminal intent, a requirement that makes convictions for white-collar crime particularly hard to secure.