Singh claimed the reason was concern by the cinema that the police would retaliate by raising charges over statutory violations.

"Internet Explorer is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations," said Brendan Sullivan, the lead lawyer for the nine states.

"Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them."

The brake on that, aside from statutory violations that mainly apply inside the country, is found in the checks and balances exercised by the Congress.

After talking to patients and reviewing health records, investigators found "a number of serious constitutional and federal statutory violations," according to their report.

But he said, "We are informed that the audit report does not find any statutory or regulatory violation in the manner in which these contracts were let."

Ordinarily, a statutory violation constitutes negligence.

The trial judge had instructed the jury to consider the plaintiff's statutory violation when determining whether the plaintiff was contributorily negligent.

The Board sought to recover damages for the statutory violation.

In 2011, OpenFeint was party to a class action suit with allegations including computer fraud, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, bad faith and seven other statutory violations.