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"Sliding scale" or "Zippo" test. In Zippo Manufacturing Co. v. Zippo Dot Com, Inc., a federal court held that "the likelihood that general jurisdiction can be constitutionally exercised is directly proportionate to the nature and quality of commercial activity that an entity conducts over the Internet. This sliding scale is consistent with well ...
The court established a three-prong test for determining whether a court has jurisdiction over a website, with a sliding scale of minimum contacts in a territory outside that of the site's origin. Under the sliding scale, "the likelihood that personal jurisdiction can be constitutionally exercised is directly proportionate to the nature and ...
Sliding scale fees are variable prices for products, services, or taxes based on a customer's ability to pay. Such fees are thereby reduced for those who have lower incomes, or alternatively, less money to spare after their personal expenses, regardless of income. [1] Sliding scale fees are a form of price discrimination or differential pricing.
The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846. The word corn in British English denoted all cereal grains, including wheat, oats and barley. [1] The laws were designed to keep corn prices high to favour domestic producers, and represented British mercantilism.
Slide rule. Typical ten-inch (25 cm) student slide rule (Pickett N902-T simplex trig) A slide rule is a hand -operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for evaluating mathematical operations such as multiplication, division, exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry.
Archard equation. The Archard wear equation is a simple model used to describe sliding wear and is based on the theory of asperity contact. The Archard equation was developed much later than Reye's hypothesis [ it] (sometimes also known as energy dissipative hypothesis ), though both came to the same physical conclusions, that the volume of the ...
e. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for ...
Gutenberg–Richter law. In seismology, the Gutenberg–Richter law [1] ( GR law) expresses the relationship between the magnitude and total number of earthquakes in any given region and time period of at least that magnitude. or. where. is the number of events having a magnitude , and are constants, i.e. they are the same for all values of and .