Four Pillars Enterprise Co. is a Taiwanese company owned by Pin Yen Yang. Avery Dennison, Inc., a U.S. corporation, is one of Four Pillars's chief competitors in the manufacture of adhesives. In 1989, Victor Lee, an Avery employee, met Yang and Yang's daughter Hwei Chen. They agreed to pay Lee $25,000 a year to serve as a consultant to Four Pillars. Over the next eight years, Lee supplied the Yangs with confidential Avery reports, including information that Four Pillars used to make a new adhesive that had been developed by Avery. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confronted Lee, and he agreed to cooperate in an operation to catch the Yangs. When Lee next met the Yangs, he showed them documents provided by the FBI. The documents bore "confidential" stamps, and Lee said that they were Avery's confidential property. The FBI arrested the Yangs with the documents in their possession. The Yangs and Four Pillars were charged with, among other crimes, the attempted theft of trade secrets. [United States v. Yang, 281 F.3d 534 (6th Cir. 2002)]

This lawsuit will be brought in_______court.

The plaintiff(s) in this case is/are____ and the defendant(s) is/are _______

Since this is a ______ case, the burden of proof will be on the _______ to prove the defendant's ________ using a standard of __________.

The crime of attempted theft of trade secrets would most likely be classified as a/an ____ crime.

One possible _____ the Yangs might raise at trial would be _____ since they could potentially argue that the FBI operation was set up to try and catch them in the act.

To prove "attempt to commit a crime," the government must establish (1) the intent to engage in criminal activity, and (2) the commission of one or more overt acts towards the commission of the offense. The first element of intent identifies the ____ of the crime and the second element identifies the ____ of the crime.

The defendants in this case argued in part that it was impossible for them to have committed the crime of attempted theft of trade secrets because the documents were not actually real confidential trade secrets, but merely pretend documents used to catch them. A court is likely to ____ with the defendants because this is not a required element for commission of the crime.

In a civil lawsuit by Avery against the Yangs, they might ask for ___ damages including ______, as well as _____ damages in the form of ____.

If the defendants are charged with a ____ in this case it will mean that the crime is a more serious crime punishable by ____ in jail.

If the Yangs were accused of threatening to expose Lee for what he had been doing illegally over the past eight years unless he continued to provide them with more confidential information, the Yangs could also be charged with the crime of _____