Each chapter begins with a comprehensive discussion of the basic principles of computer law. Chapter topics include contracts; tort and negligence liability; trade secret protection of software; and taxation. The focus is on the treatment of computer law issues on a state–by–state basis. Text covers these issues: computer–based cases, providing an extensive compilation of the most recent; cases with excerpt and authors' commentary, where helpful; analogous cases, containing citations to analogous cases with procedural values where no cases in that jurisdiction are explicitly computer-related; statutes, listing the particular state.