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Overreaching

Exploiting a situation through Fraud or Unconscionable conduct.

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"Oracle's expert 'overreached' in concluding that Google owed up to US$6.1 billion in damages for alleged infringement of Oracle's Java patents," U.S.
Oracle asked to lower damages claim against Google
2d DCA 1976), the court found that the husband overreached the wife under the following circumstances: Approximately 24 hours before the wedding, while the parties were shopping for wedding rings, the husband presented the wife with a prenuptial agreement in the jewelry store and gave her the ultimatum of "no agreement, no wedding." (30) The wedding was to take place at an airport where family and friends were invited as the couple traveled to board a cruise ship with booked passage on a honeymoon cruise to Europe, and all other arrangements made.
The Uniform Premarital Agreement Act: taking Casto to a new level for prenuptial agreements
It is commonly believed that Enron--all right, Lay and Skilling--failed because of fraud, imaginative accounting, poor oversight and a criminal CFO who overreached himself with a few too many off-balance-sheet special purpose entities.
The tragedy of enronicus rex
Mason writes, "It's now clear that we overreached with the push for gay marriage.
Burning over Bush
On May 8, Ontario Judge Robert MacKinnon ruled that the rights of 17-year-old Marc Hall, a self-confessed homosexual, overreached the rights of the Durham Catholic School Board and school community.
Chief Justice McLachlin overthrows parental rights

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