Legal Opinion
Bisbano, Sr. v. Strine Printing Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 27, 2013No. 20-1280PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The practice of giving gifts as a means of securing favors is as old as the hills. In ancient Greece, for example, legend has it that Zeus asked Paris, a Trojan prince, to decide which of three goddesses was the fairest of them all. Paris chose Aphrodite, rejecting proffered bribes of kingly power from Hera and military might from Athena. But Aphrodite too had tendered a bribe, agreeing to help him win the hand of the most beautiful woman alive.
A modern-day commercial equivalent of this practice is the giving of a gratuity to a procurement officer, behind her employer’s…
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