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cease and desist
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cease and desist

An order from a government authority requiring one to stop engaging in some activity, such as construction without a proper permit. If issued from a court, it would be called an injunction.



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Solid Oak Software Inc, which said it found pieces of its CyberSitter Internet-filtering software in a similar Chinese program, said it had faxed cease-and-desist letters to Dell, HP and Gateway, and to the U.
based company's chairman and CEO, said in a letter posted on the firm's breach information website that Heartland has sent cease-and-desist letters to some competitors -- which he did not name -- telling them "that their untrue and misleading claims are baseless and unlawful.
Bar owners in Boston, Michigan were allegedly duped into cancelling SEX AND THE CITY-themed nights after receiving fake cease-and-desist letters purporting to be from U.
 
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