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In general use, a complaint is an expression of displeasure, such as poor service at a store, or from a local government, etc. Under common law, a complaint is a formal legal document that sets out the basic facts and legal reasons (see: cause of action) that the filing party (the plaintiffs) believes are sufficient to support a claim against another person, persons, entity or entities (the defendants) that entitles the plaintiff(s) to a remedy (either money damages or injunctive relief). For example, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that govern civil litigation in United States courts provide that a civil action is commenced with the filing or service of a pleading called a complaint. Civil court rules in states that have incorporated the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure use the same term for the same pleading.

In some jurisdictions, certain types of criminal cases may also be commenced by the filing of a complaint, also sometimes called a criminal complaint or felony complaint. All criminal cases are prosecuted in the name of the governmental authority that promulgates criminal statutes and enforces the police power of the state with the goal of seeking criminal sanctions, such as the State (also sometimes called the People) or Crown (in Commonwealth Realms). In the United States, the complaint is often associated with misdemeanor criminal charges presented by the prosecutor without the grand jury process. In most U.S. jurisdictions, the charging instrument presented to and authorized by a grand jury is referred to as an indictment.

In many U.S. jurisdictions, a complaint submitted to a court must be accompanied by a Case Information Statement, which sets forth certain key information about the case and the lawyers representing the parties. This allows the judge to make determinations about which deadlines to set for different phases of the case, as it moves through the court system.

In certain countries, (for example the UK and many countries of the European Community), the making of consumer complaints, particularly regarding the sale of financial services, is governed by statute. The statutory authority may require companies to reply to complaints within set time limits, publish written procedures for handling customer dissatisfaction and provide information about arbitration schemes.

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-| name = Hans-Hermann Hoppe
+In general use, a '''complaint''' is an expression of displeasure, such as poor service at a store, or from a [[local government]], etc.  Under [[common law]], a complaint is a formal legal document that sets out the basic facts and legal reasons (see: [[cause of action]]) that the [[filing]] party (the [[plaintiff]]s) believes are sufficient to support a claim against another person, persons, entity or entities (the [[defendant]]s) that entitles the plaintiff(s) to a [[Legal remedy|remedy]] (either [[money damages]] or [[injunctive relief]]).   For example, the [[Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]] that govern civil litigation in [[United States]] courts provide that a civil action is commenced with the filing or service of a pleading called a complaint.  Civil court rules in states that have incorporated the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure use the same term for the same pleading.
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-| caption = Hans-Hermann Hoppe
-| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|9|2}}
-| birth_place = [[Peine]], [[Germany]]
-| residence = [[US]]
-| nationality = [[Germany|German]] {{flagicon|West Germany}}
-| field = [[Austrian Economics]]
-| work_institution = [[University of Nevada, Las Vegas|UNLV]]
-| doctoral_advisor = [[Jürgen Habermas]]
-| prizes = The Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize (2006), The Frank T. and Harriet Kurzweg Award (2004)
-| footnotes = website: http://www.HansHoppe.com/ |
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-'''Hans-Hermann Hoppe''' (born [[September 2]], [[1949]]) is an [[Austrian school]] [[economist]] of the [[anarcho-capitalism|anarcho-capitalist]] tradition, and a former economics professor at the [[University of Nevada, Las Vegas]].
+In some jurisdictions, certain types of criminal cases may also be commenced by the filing of a complaint, also sometimes called a '''criminal complaint''' or '''felony complaint'''. All criminal cases are prosecuted in the name of the governmental authority that promulgates criminal statutes and enforces the [[police power]] of the state with the goal of seeking criminal [[sanctions (law)|sanctions]], such as the State (also sometimes called the People) or Crown (in [[Commonwealth Realms]]).  In the United States, the complaint is often associated with misdemeanor criminal charges presented by the prosecutor without the grand jury process.  In most U.S. jurisdictions, the charging instrument presented to and authorized by a [[grand jury]] is referred to as an [[indictment]].
-==Academic career==
-Born in [[Peine]], [[West Germany]], he attended the [[Universität des Saarlandes]] in [[Saarbrücken]], and the [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main|Goethe University]], [[Frankfurt am Main]], studying [[philosophy]], [[sociology]], [[history]], and [[economics]]. He earned his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] (Philosophy, 1974) and his ''[[Habilitation]]'' (Foundations of Sociology and Economics, 1981), both from the Goethe-Universität. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the [[University of Michigan]], [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]] from 1976 to 1978.
+In many U.S. jurisdictions, a complaint submitted to a court must be accompanied by a [[Case Information Statement]], which sets forth certain key information about the case and the [[lawyer]]s representing the [[Party (law)|parties]].  This allows the judge to make determinations about which deadlines to set for different phases of the case, as it moves through the court system.
-He taught at several German universities as well as at the [[Johns Hopkins University]] Bologna Center for Advanced International Studies, [[Bologna]], [[Italy]].{{Fact|December 16, 2007|date=December 2007}} In 1986, he moved from Germany to the United States, to study under [[Murray Rothbard]].{{Fact|December 16, 2007|date=December 2007}} He remained a close associate until Rothbard's death in January 1995.
+In certain countries, (for example the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and many countries of the [[European Community]]), the making of consumer complaints, particularly regarding the sale of financial services, is governed by [[statute]]. The statutory authority may require companies to reply to complaints within set time limits, publish written procedures for handling customer dissatisfaction and provide information about arbitration schemes.
-Hoppe is currently Professor of Economics at [[UNLV|University of Nevada, Las Vegas]], a Distinguished Fellow with the [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]], and, until December, 2004, the editor of the ''[[Journal of Libertarian Studies]]''. The author of several widely-discussed books and articles, he has put forth an "[[argumentation ethics]]" defense of libertarian rights, based in part on the [[discourse ethics]] theories of German philosophers [[Jürgen Habermas]] (Hoppe's PhD advisor) and [[Karl-Otto Apel]]. In 2005, he founded the [http://www.propertyandfreedom.org/ Property and Freedom Society].
-==Theory==
+==See also==
+* [[Petition]]
-Following in the tradition of Murray Rothbard, Hoppe has analyzed the behavior of [[government]] using the tools of Austrian-economic theory. Defining a government as "a territorial monopolist of jurisdiction and taxation" and assuming no more than self-interest on the part of government officials, he predicts that these government officials will use their [[monopoly]] privileges to maximize their own wealth and power. Hoppe argues that there is a high degree of [[correlation]] between these theoretical predictions and historical data.{{Fact|December 16, 2007|date=December 2007}}
+* [[Cause of action]]
+* [[Pleading]]
+* [[Service of process]]
+* [[Federal Trade Commission]]
+* [[Better Business Bureau]]
+==External links==
-In ''[[Democracy: The God That Failed]]'', Hoppe contrasts and compares dynastical [[monarchies]] with [[democratic]] [[republics]]. In his view, a [[dynastical]] [[monarch]] (king) is like the "owner" of a country, because it is passed on from generation to generation, whereas an elected president is like a "temporary caretaker" or "renter". Both the king and the president have an incentive to exploit the current use of the country for their own benefit. However, the king also has a counterbalancing interest in maintaining the long-term [[capital]] value of the nation, just as the owner of a house has an interest in maintaining its capital value (unlike a renter). Being temporary, democratically elected officials have every incentive to plunder the wealth of productive citizens as fast as possible.
+{{Wiktionary}}
+* [http://www.ftc.gov/ U.S. Federal Trade Commission site]
+* [http://www.millerandzois.com/sample-personal-injury-complaints.html Sample Legal Complaints]
+[[Category:Legal terms]]
-Under Hoppean theory, a monopoly does not necessarily have to do with [[market share]], but rather the lack of "free entry" into the business of producing a particular [[good (accounting)|good]] or [[Service (economics)|service]]. In this view, monopolies cannot arise on the [[free market]]. Rather, they must always be the result of government policy. Coercive monopolies are bad from the standpoint of consumers because the [[price]] will tend to be higher and the quality will be lower than they would be in markets completely free from coordinated coercion. Like Rothbard, Hoppe has conjectured that, in a free market for governmental services, competing private [[insurance]] and defense agencies would provide a better quality of protection and dispute resolution than that which currently exists under monopolistic government control.{{Fact|December 16, 2007|date=December 2007}}
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-==Academic controversy==
-According to the [[Las Vegas Review Journal]], Hoppe has been linked to other researchers with close ties to hate groups. The LVRJ states:
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-An organization headed by a prominent University of Nevada, Las Vegas professor has invited four researchers with ties to hate groups to speak at a May conference in Turkey... Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the renowned Austrian economist who made headlines in 2005 over remarks he made in the classroom about gays, has invited the researchers to express viewpoints that some civil rights organizations call "academic racism."... The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], based in Montgomery, Ala., provides tolerance education programs and fights legal battles with hate groups. It has publicly denounced several of the individuals scheduled to speak at Hoppe's conference.<ref>[http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Mar-11-Sun-2007/news/13063858.html/ Las Vegas Review Journal] "Researchers tied to hate groups get invitations"</ref>
+[[ko:진정서 (법)]]
-</blockquote>
+[[mk:Жалба]]
+[[nl:Aangifte (politie)]]
-In a seperate incident, Hoppe has been accused of homophobia in the classroom. During a lecture in his Money & Banking course, Hoppe hypothesized that, because they tend to not have children, old people and homosexuals tend to focus less on saving for the future. One of Hoppe's students characterized this statement as [[derogatory]] and a matter of opinion rather than fact. According to the ''[[Chronicle of Higher Education]]'':
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-In his lectures, Mr. Hoppe said that certain groups of people -- including small children, very old people, and homosexuals -- tend to prefer present-day consumption to long-term investment. Because homosexuals generally do not have children, Mr. Hoppe said, they feel less need to look toward the future. (In a recent talk at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which Mr. Hoppe says was similar to his classroom lecture, he declared, "Homosexuals have higher time preferences, because life ends with them.")
+[[scn:Lamentu]]
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-<nowiki>[The student], Mr. Knight</nowiki> found that argument unwarranted and obnoxious, and he promptly filed a complaint with the university. In a telephone interview on Saturday, Mr. Knight said: "I was just shocked and appalled. I said to myself, Where the hell is he getting this information from? I was completely surprised, and that's why I went to the university about this."<ref>[http://chronicle.com/free/2005/02/2005021406n.htm "Professor Who Was Accused of Making Derogatory Remarks in Class Wants UNLV to Clear His Record"] ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', February 14, 2005</ref>
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-</blockquote>
-Hoppe's comments triggered an academic investigation which resulted in a "nondisciplinary" letter <ref>http://www.mises.org/pdf/hoppeletter.pdf (.pdf)</ref> being issued [[February 9]] [[2005]] instructing him to "cease mischaracterizing opinion as objective fact." The "nondisciplinary" letter was eventually removed from his personnel file.<ref>[http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Oct-14-Fri-2005/news/3815481.html The Las Vegas Review Journal]</ref> Hoppe's request for a one-year paid leave (sabbatical) and a letter of apology were denied.<ref>"U. of Nevada Reverses Professor's Reprimand" ELIZABETH F. FARRELL. ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]''. Washington: Mar 4, 2005. Vol. 51, Iss. 26; pg. A.10</ref>
-==Criticisms==
-Professor Hoppe has argued for a number of viewpoints that have proved controversial, both with libertarians in specific and with the world at large.
-===Monarchy===
-In June 2005, Hoppe gave an interview in the German newspaper ''[[Junge Freiheit]]'', in which he characterized [[monarchy]] as a lesser evil than [[democracy]], calling the latter [[mob rule]] and saying, "Liberty instead of democracy!" In the interview Hoppe also condemned the [[French revolution]] as belonging in "the same category of vile revolutions as well as the [[Bolshevik]] revolution and the [[Nazi]] revolution," because the French revolution led to "Regicide, Egalitarianism, democracy, socialism, hatred of all religion, terror measures, mass plundering, rape and murder, military draft and the total, ideologically motivated War."<ref>[http://www.jf-archiv.de/archiv05/200526062409.htm 24.06.05 / "Freiheit statt Demokratie" / Der libertäre Vordenker und bekennende "Antidemokrat" Hans-Hermann Hoppe über seine provokanten Thesen<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-===Immigration===
-Hans-Hermann Hoppe's views about immigration [http://www.hanshoppe.com/sel-topics.php#immigration], which do not cast libertarianism as requiring [[open borders]], have been controversial within the wider libertarian movement.
-Hoppe has countered his "left-libertarian" opponents by commenting on their opinions in footnote 23<ref>[http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe10.html LewRockwell.com]</ref> to ''Natural Order, the State, and the Immigration Problem'' <ref>[http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/16_1/16_1_5.pdf Mises.org]</ref>:
-{{quote|A second motive for the open border enthusiasm among contemporary left-libertarians is their egalitarianism. They were initially drawn to libertarianism as juveniles because of its "antiauthoritarianism" (trust no authority) and seeming "tolerance," in particular toward "alternative" — non-bourgeois — lifestyles. As adults, they have been arrested in this phase of mental development. They express special "sensitivity" in every manner of discrimination and are not inhibited in using the power of the central state to impose non-discrimination or "civil rights" statutes on society. Consequently, by prohibiting other property owners from discrimination as they see fit, they are allowed to live at others' expense. They can indulge in their "alternative" lifestyle without having to pay the "normal" price for such conduct, i.e., discrimination and exclusion. To legitimize this course of action, they insist that one lifestyle is as good and acceptable as another. This leads first to multiculturalism, then to cultural relativism, and finally to "open borders." }}
-Critics of Hoppe's position on immigration policy have included GMU Economics chair [[Donald Boudreaux]], and who entitled one of his pieces "Hoppe-ing mad". Boudreaux writes, "Among the strangest and most convoluted arguments I’ve ever encountered is Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s allegedly free-market case for restricting immigration."<ref>[http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2004/09/hoppeing_mad.html CafeHayek Blog]</ref>  Other critics include Walter Block, who has written a more scholarly piece on Hoppe's views in the ''Journal of Libertarian Studies''.<ref>[http://blog.mises.org/archives/003456.asp Two Economists: Hoppe and Summers - Mises Economics Blog<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-== Books ==
-{{wikiquote|Hans-Hermann Hoppe}}
-* ''[[Handeln und Erkennen]]'' (Bern 1976)
-* ''[[Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung]]'' ([[Westdeutscher Verlag]] 1983) ISBN 3-531-11624-X.
-* ''[[Eigentum, Anarchie und Staat]]'' (Westdeutscher Verlag 1987)
-* ''[[Praxeology and Economic Science]]'' ([[Ludwig von Mises Institute]], 1988) (no ISBN)
-* ''[[A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism]]'' ([[Springer Science and Business Media|Kluwer Academic Publishers]] 1989) ISBN 0-89838-279-3. [http://www.hanshoppe.com/publications/Soc&Cap.pdf Full Text in PDF format]
-* ''[[Economic Science and the Austrian Method]]'' (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1995) ISBN 0-945466-20-X. [http://mises.org/pdf/esam.pdf Full Text in PDF format]
-* ''[[Democracy: The God That Failed]]'' (Transaction Publishers, 2001) Paperback (in English) ISBN 0-7658-0868-4.
-* ''[[The Economics and Ethics of Private Property]]'' (2nd edition, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006) ISBN 0-945466-40-4
-* Editor: ''[[The Myth of National Defense. Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production]]''. [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]]. October 2003. ISBN 0-945466-37-4. [http://mises.org/etexts/defensemyth.pdf Full Text in PDF format] With writings by L.M. Bassani, [[Carlo Lottieri|C. Lottieri]], [[Murray Rothbard|M.N. Rothbard]], [[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn|E. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn]], B. Lemennicier, G. Radnitsky, [[Joseph R. Stromberg|J.R. Stromberg]], L.J. Sechrest, J.R. Hummel, [[Walter Block|W. Block]], and [[Jorg Guido Hulsmann|J.G. Hulsmann]].
-=== Interviews ===
-* [http://www.mises.org/story/1455 A 2004 interview with Hoppe]
-* [http://www.philipdru.com/audio/hoppe.mp3 A 2003 radio interview with Hoppe]
-* [http://www.mises.org/journals/aen/aen18_1_1.asp A 1998 interview with Hoppe]
-=== Publications ===
-* [http://www.mises.org/rothbard/ethics/hoppeintro.asp Full text of Hoppe's 1998 introduction] to ''[[The Ethics of Liberty]]'' by Murray Rothbard. (also in [http://www.mises.org/rothbard/ethics/hoppeintro.pdf PDF format]).
-* [http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe15.html "My Battle With the Thought Police"] Hoppe's own account on what happened
-* [http://www.openrepublic.org/open_republic/20051001_vol1_no2/content/20051001_ehh1.htm "The Errors of Hans-Hermann Hoppe – Strategies of Liberation?"] Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich, October 2005, Open Republic Institute
-* [http://mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/rae3_1_16.pdf In Defense of Extreme Rationalism: Thoughts on D. McCloskey's ''The Rhetoric of Economics''] by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
-* [http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/On_Hoppe.html Some Brief Comments on Hoppe's Justification of the Private Property Ethic] by [[David Friedman]].
-* [http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe-arch.html LewRockwell.com:] Hoppe's archives at LewRockwell.com
-== References ==
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-== External links ==
-* [http://www.hanshoppe.com/ Hans-Hermann Hoppe homepage]
-* [http://www.mises.org/fellows.asp?control=7 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Mises Institute]
-* [http://www.propertyandfreedom.org/ The Property and Freedom Society]
-* [http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=66 Hoppe's Ten Lecture Seminar, "Economy, Society, and History"]
-* More on Hoppe's [http://www.hanshoppe.com/sel-topics.php#arg-ethics Argumentation Ethics]
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