What do you call the person that is suing someone and the person that is being sued?
Plaintiff and defendant.
Is it illegal to pretend to be someone else online?
If I'm pretending to be another real person who, then yes, "impersonation" is illegal. If I make up a fictional person then often no. It depends. If you sign up for websites and services and lie when it is required to give the real information, then this is illegal. However if you're on a site which does not request this information and you use a fictional name or "alias" this is usually fine. Simply: Impersonation = bad Alias = usually good I have several Aliases over the internet simply because I have relations with some businesses and organisations. I also have some opinions on matters that should not be reflected on these organisations. So in different places, I can be different people for different purposes. But I never impersonate an existing person. I attribute each of my aliases to a different aspect of my life. Using another persons photo however is very dangerous and illegal, I would advise your friend to cease using other peoples photos immediately.
Can I sue someone for breaking my smartphone?
In the U.S., you do not sue in criminal courts - you try to get the District Attorney to do that. For a smartphone, very unlikely to draw enough interest. So, let's limit this to civil suits. Yes, you can sue anyone for anything, but that is not really what you are asking.You are not asking if it makes sense to sue - often for small matters, it doesn't. You are not asking if you should ask the person to help you buy a new smartphone or compensate you in some way for their actions, which is what I might try if someone negligently or intentionally broke my smartphone (and I wasn't already going to replace it anyway).You are asking if you have a legal claim against a person who broke your smartphone.If it was intentional and it cuased damage, in most jurisdictions, you have a legal claim against the person who caused the damage. If it was unintentional, you have to determine, in a typical jurisdiction, whether (1) the person had a duty of care around your smartphone (such as a duty not to toss weights across the room), (2) the person breached that duty (the person stepping on it at the gym when it was not visible, or fell over onto it would not have breached any duty of care, because unless you are working in an explosives factory, you don't have a duty to walk very, very carefully), (3) there was damage, and (4) the breach of the duty caused the damage. So, it depends on a lot of facts. A person who tosses a six-pack of soda 40 feet to their grovery cart, but misses, hits yours and breaks your phone had a duty of care not do toss stuff that far in a grocery store (but probably doesn't have a duty of care that prohibits tossing a small bag of dried beans six feet), breached that duty (in laypersons terms, was stupid and didn't think things through), that breach caused the damage. Yup, breaking your phone by tossing a can 40 feet in a grocery store creates a legal claim, in my court of personal opinion. A different result, if the toss is a baseball and it is outdoors.It is very fact specific whether there is a legal claim.
Can someone be sued if a person uses an idea and work that isn’t copyrighted or patented without their consent to start a business?
Are you saying that you and this third party jointly created the idea and work? And you’re also saying that this idea and work have not been protected by copyright or patent? Has this idea and work been published anywhere? Do you have some reason why you don’t want to work with this third party any more?If you’re in the US, absent an agreement specifically stating otherwise, each inventor owns 100% of the invention even if a patent on the idea exists. That is, each inventor can do what he/she wants with the invention, including granting licenses to others.As someone else had responded, if the invention was conceived in the course of employment, the company may have specific IP rights. Be sure to check your employment/contractor/consulting agreement, if applicable.If the idea came more informally, like in a brainstorming session among friends, and there’s no agreement or intent to seek IP protection, then it’s probably fair game. Of course, if you are wildly successful, you certainly don’t want to get into the situation of Facebook, for example. It’s usually good karma to be upfront with your co-inventors about what you’re going to do with the jointly-conceived idea, I think.Hope this helps.
Can I sue someone for accidentally breaking my phone?
An accident is that which can not be foreseen and which has no intent. Therefore negligence and recklessness are difficult to pursue. if the person was holding your phone, with your permission, lightning struck a tree causing a branch to fall knocking the phone from the person ... this is an accident and there is nothing you can do. If the person grabbed your phone, without your permission, in the same incident, they are responsible because BUT FOR their taking your phone the branch would not have hit it. You can sue the person in the last case but not in the first case. If you let them use it in good faith and they broke it, they have breached your good faith and breaking it was not a condition of you letting them use it. ie he dropped it or spilled something on it. He has a duty to pay for it to be repaired. I am surprised he does not offer to repair it. This depends how strong and ruthless you want to be. If you want to mess around then you will not get it repaired. If you are direct and tell him he is responsible he must pay for its repair or a new phone and he refuses, you can sue him.
Do you think you can sue someone for lying to you.?
My friend dated this guy for three years he treated her just like his girlfriend and even asked her to marry him and then she found out he was already married and cheating on his wife. She now wants to sue him for wasting her time and misleading her for the past three years. She thought she had a chance to marry him and have a family now she finds out that he is married she wants to know sue for pain and suffering and being lied to do you think she has a case.
Can you sue someone for giving you herpes simplex 1?
I know this may sound a little odd but my aunt has herpes and ever since I was little she used to share drinks, utensils and everything else with my sister, cousins and me. If she had given one of us herpes would there be any repercussions for her? I've heard of people being sued for giving someone HIV but that seems more easy to prove than herpes. She knows she has it and she shares things with everyone, even people who don't know she has it. She's intentionally risking other people's health without even warning them. I know it'd be kind of hard to prove that she gave it to someone and it wasn't someone else but is it possible?
Can you get sued for pointing your finger at someone?
I was told that you can get sued for pointing your finger at someone and calling someone "names". is this true? my girlfriends mom told her that and she told me... I told her her mother is wrong... Please prove me right -_-
Can you be sued for slander for calling someone a terrorist supporter?
This day in age a person can sue for just about anything if you have the right lawyer and the media but when you say something about someone that hurts there reputation were it would cost them a loss in a type of business then yes it's call deflation of careatours but if it don't cause a loss then yes it's not right but they can,don't say any thing unless u can back it with facts but remember when you point the finger you have 3 pointing back at you.