Terms and Conditions for use of the Court House Regular website. Beta 1.0
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For Subscribers registering to Place and Receive assignments, see immediately below.
1) Acceptance of Terms through Use
By using this website (“Website”), you ("User" or “You”) signify your agreement of these terms and conditions ("Agreement"). If you do not agree to this Agreement you are not licensed to use this Website. User has an affirmative responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes as the owner of this site, (“Website Owner”), reserves the right to revise this Agreement and User’s continued use of this Website following the posting of any changes to the Agreement constitutes acceptance of such changes. N.B. This applies to those who may "hack" their way in.
2) Termination of Account
The Company reserves the right to terminate a User's account on this Website at any time without notice and may do so for any reason or for no reason including, but not limited to; breach of this Agreement or breach of the instructions on this site by User.
3) Consent to Receive Electronics Records
By participating in the use of this Website, You signify your express consent to receive information from the Website in electronic format. Electronic records may include, but are not restricted to, terms and conditions, agreements, privacy policies, and other items.
4) License to Use this Website
Upon your agreement, the Website Owner hereby grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferrable limited license to use this Website in strict accordance with the terms and conditions in this Agreement and as permitted via instructions on this Website. You agree not to make any false or fraudulent statements in your use of or to gain access to this site.
5) Licensed Attorneys or their immediately supervised Staff only.
Only an attorney licensed in a U.S. jurisdiction or closely supervised employee of same may use this Website. All accounts are subject to verification. Per Paragraphs 2 and 4, any account that gives any indication of not being established by an attorney shall be terminated, even if in fact, the account was established by an attorney.
6) Permissible action to be taken in the event of a breach of Paragraph 5.
If You establish an account and are determined not to be an attorney or in the employ of same, you authorize the Website Owner to report you to the appropriate authorities for impersonating an attorney. Further, you will take no action against Website Owner for making such a report.
7) Property Rights
User acknowledges and agrees that all content and services available on this Website are property of the Website Owner and are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets, and other proprietary rights and laws, in the U.S. and internationally. All rights not expressly granted herein are fully reserved by the Website Owner.
8) License Restrictions
Except as may be explicitly permitted through this Website, User agrees not to save, download, cut and paste, sell, license, rent, lease, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from materials, code or content on or from this Website or that is property of Website Owner.
9) Prohibition on Retrieval of Data.
Systematic retrieval of data or other content from this site or the site of any party offering materials through this site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without express written permission from the Website Owner is prohibited. In addition, use of the content or materials for any purpose not expressly permitted in this Agreement is prohibited.
10) Security
User agrees to use your best efforts to prevent access to this Website through your user login and password by anyone other than yourself or your immediately supervised staff, including but not limited to, keeping such information strictly confidential, notifying the Website Owner immediately if User discovers loss or access to such information by another party not under your control and supervision, and by using a login and password not easily guessed by a third party.
11) Prohibition on hacking.
You agree that You shall not try to reverse engineer, reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, disassemble, translate or otherwise alter, defraud or create false results from any executable code, contents, database or materials on or received via this Website. Further, you shall not use any so called “site copy” software on the Website. User understands that such actions are likely to subject You to serious civil and criminal legal penalties and that the Website Owner shall pursue such penalties to the full extent of the law to protect its rights and the rights of its other licensors.
You agree that if You are a licensed attorney, in the event of breach of this Paragraph 11, in addition to any other actions, you authorize the Website Owner to refer this matter to the appropriate disciplinary organization.
12) User's License Grant to Website Owner
You agree to the Website Submission Rules, if any, as part of this Agreement if provided on the Website by the Website Owner. The Website Owner shall not treat any submission as confidential and shall not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in the future services or products. You acknowledge that you are fully responsible for the any content you provide, including but not limited to, profiles and commentary, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. You hereby represent and warrant that any content you provide does not infringe the rights of any third party.
13) Trademarks
The Website Owner, licensors or other third party materials, services or products referenced on this site are common law or registered trademarks or service marks of such parties and you agree never to use same without express written permission.
14) Third Party Sites
You may be transferred to other third party sites through links or frames from this Website. You are cautioned to read such sites' Terms and Conditions and/or Privacy Policies before using such sites in order to be aware of the terms and conditions of your use of such sites. You acknowledge that the Website Owner is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright, compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the contents, products, services or any transmissions received through such sites. The inclusion of such a link or frame does not imply endorsement of this site by the Website, its licensors, any association with its operators and is provided solely for your convenience. You agree that the Website Owner and its licensors have no liability whatsoever from such third party sites and your usage of them. If you wish to suspend email from such sites, you must contact them directly.
15) Disclaimer of Warranties
The Website Owner and licensors make no representations or warranties about this Website, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this site, or any services or products received through this site. All of this Website, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this site, or any services or products received through this site are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, including express, statutory and/or implied. The Website Owner, and its licensors hereby disclaim all warranties with regard to this Website, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this Website, or any services or products received through this site, including all express, statutory, and implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. The Website Owner and/or licensors do not warrant that this Website, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this Website, or any services or products received through this Website are accurate, reliable or correct; that this Website will be available at any particular time or location; that any defects or errors will be corrected; or that the contents or any information received through this Website is free of viruses or other harmful components. Your use of this Website is solely at your risk. User agrees that it has relied on no warranties, representations or statements other than in this Agreement, because some jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties, these exclusions may not apply to you but shall apply to the maximum extent permitted by law of your jurisdiction.
16) Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances shall the Website Owner, its licensors be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from or arise out of the use of, or inability to use this site, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this site, or any services or products received through this site. This limitation applies whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other basis, even if the Website Owner and/or its licensors have been advised of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, the Website Owner, and/or its respective licensors' liability in such jurisdictions shall be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law of your jurisdiction.
16) Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Website Owner, its licensors, subsidiaries and other affiliated entities, and their employees, contractors, officers, agents and directors from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, that arise from your use of this Website, offers, gifts, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this site, or any services or products received through this site, or any violation of this Agreement. The Company reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you shall cooperate with the Company in asserting any available defenses.
17) Choice of Law
This Agreement shall be construed according to the law of the State of New York.
18) Venue
For any case or controversy, venue shall be in a court of competent jurisdiction in the County of Bronx, in the State of New York. Should removal or a federal question arise, venue shall be in a court of competent jurisdiction in the Southern District of New York. All defenses to venue are hereby waived by all parties.
19) Process
Process shall be made by any legally valid method. User hereby agrees to accept process via email.
20) Evidence
N.B. False entries have been made into the database. These are places and/or courts that do not currently exist. Should there be Fifty (50) or more of these false entries in any database that User may have made any contribution to, User agrees that this shall be conclusive evidence of violation of this Agreement.
21) Liquidated Damages
User agrees that material violation, including and especially Paragraph 9 of this Agreement shall cause damages of no less than One Hundred Thousand ($100,000) dollars.
Terms and Conditions for use of the Court House Regular website for those Law Firms registering to only Place assignments.
1) Acceptance of Terms through Use.
By using this website (“Website”), you ("User" or “You”) signify your agreement of these terms and conditions ("Agreement"). If you do not agree to this Agreement you are not licensed to use this Website. User has an affirmative responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes as the owner of this site, (“Website Owner”), reserves the right to revise this Agreement and User’s continued use of this Website following the posting of any changes to the Agreement constitutes acceptance of such changes. N.B. This applies to those who may "hack" their way in.
2) Termination of Account.
The Company reserves the right to terminate a User's account on this Website at any time without notice and may do so for any reason or for no reason including, but not limited to; breach of this Agreement or breach of the instructions on this site by User.
3) Consent to Receive Electronics Records.
By participating in the use of this Website, You signify your express consent to receive information from the Website in electronic format. Electronic records may include, but are not restricted to, terms and conditions, agreements, privacy policies, and other items.
4) License to Use this Website.
Upon your agreement, the Website Owner hereby grants You a non-exclusive, non-transferrable limited license to use this Website in strict accordance with the terms and conditions in this Agreement and as permitted via instructions on this Website. You agree not to make any false or fraudulent statements in your use of or to gain access to this site.
5) Licensed Attorneys or their immediately supervised Staff only.
Only an attorney licensed in a U.S. jurisdiction or closely supervised employee of same may use this Website. All accounts are subject to verification. Per Paragraphs 2 and 4, any account that gives any indication of not being established by an attorney shall be terminated, even if in fact, the account was established by an attorney.
6) Property Rights.
User acknowledges and agrees that all content and services available on this Website are property of the Website Owner and are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets, and other proprietary rights and laws, in the U.S. and internationally. All rights not expressly granted herein are fully reserved by the Website Owner.
7) License Restrictions.
Except as may be explicitly permitted through this Website, User agrees not to save, download, cut and paste, sell, license, rent, lease, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from materials, code or content on or from this Website or that is property of Website Owner.
8) Prohibition on Retrieval of Data.
Systematic retrieval of data or other content from this site or the site of any party offering materials through this site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without express written permission from the Website Owner is prohibited. In addition, use of the content or materials for any purpose not expressly permitted in this Agreement is prohibited.
9) Security.
User agrees to use your best efforts to prevent access to this Website through your user login and password by anyone other than yourself or your immediately supervised staff, including but not limited to, keeping such information strictly confidential, notifying the Website Owner immediately if User discovers loss or access to such information by another party not under your control and supervision, and by using a login and password not easily guessed by a third party.
10) Prohibition on hacking.
You agree that You shall not try to reverse engineer, reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, disassemble, translate or otherwise alter, defraud or create false results from any executable code, contents, database or materials on or received via this Website. Further, you shall not use any so called “site copy” software on the Website. User understands that such actions are likely to subject You to serious civil and criminal legal penalties and that the Website Owner shall pursue such penalties to the full extent of the law to protect its rights and the rights of its other licensors. You agree that if You are a licensed attorney, in the event of breach of this Paragraph 11, in addition to any other actions, you authorize the Website Owner to refer this matter to the appropriate disciplinary organization.
11) User's License Grant to Website Owner.
You agree to the Website Submission Rules, if any, as part of this Agreement if provided on the Website by the Website Owner. The Website Owner shall not treat any submission as confidential and shall not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in the future services or products. You acknowledge that you are fully responsible for the any content you provide, including but not limited to, profiles and commentary, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. You hereby represent and warrant that any content you provide does not infringe the rights of any third party.
12) Trademarks.
The Website Owner, licensors or other third party materials, services or products referenced on this site are common law or registered trademarks or service marks of such parties and you agree never to use same without express written permission.
13) Third Party Sites.
You may be transferred to other third party sites through links or frames from this Website. You are cautioned to read such sites' Terms and Conditions and/or Privacy Policies before using such sites in order to be aware of the terms and conditions of your use of such sites. You acknowledge that the Website Owner is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright, compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the contents, products, services or any transmissions received through such sites. The inclusion of such a link or frame does not imply endorsement of this site by the Website, its licensors, any association with its operators and is provided solely for your convenience. You agree that the Website Owner and its licensors have no liability whatsoever from such third party sites and your usage of them. If you wish to suspend email from such sites, you must contact them directly.
14) Disclaimer of Warranties.
The Website Owner and licensors make no representations or warranties about this Website, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this site, or any services or products received through this site. All of this Website, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this site, or any services or products received through this site are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, including express, statutory and/or implied. The Website Owner, and its licensors hereby disclaim all warranties with regard to this Website, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this Website, or any services or products received through this site, including all express, statutory, and implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. The Website Owner and/or licensors do not warrant that this Website, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this Website, or any services or products received through this Website are accurate, reliable or correct; that this Website will be available at any particular time or location; that any defects or errors will be corrected; or that the contents or any information received through this Website is free of viruses or other harmful components. Your use of this Website is solely at your risk. User agrees that it has relied on no warranties, representations or statements other than in this Agreement, because some jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties, these exclusions may not apply to you but shall apply to the maximum extent permitted by law of your jurisdiction.
15) Limitation of Liability.
Under no circumstances shall the Website Owner, its licensors be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from or arise out of the use of, or inability to use this site, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this site, or any services or products received through this site. This limitation applies whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other basis, even if the Website Owner and/or its licensors have been advised of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, the Website Owner, and/or its respective licensors' liability in such jurisdictions shall be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law of your jurisdiction.
16) Indemnification.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Website Owner, its licensors, subsidiaries and other affiliated entities, and their employees, contractors, officers, agents and directors from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, that arise from your use of this Website, offers, gifts, the suitability of the information contained on or received through use of this site, or any services or products received through this site, or any violation of this Agreement. The Company reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you shall cooperate with the Company in asserting any available defenses.
17) Choice of Law.
This Agreement shall be construed according to the law of the State of New York.
18) Venue.
For any case or controversy, venue shall be in a court of competent jurisdiction in the County of Bronx, in the State of New York. Should removal or a federal question arise, venue shall be in a court of competent jurisdiction in the Southern District of New York. All defenses to venue are hereby waived by all parties.