# Demand Letter — Example Corpus Manifest

All examples below are publicly-available documents. Court exhibits are part of
the public record under the common-law right of access to judicial records. US
government documents (CFPB, HUD, court-published forms, etc.) are public domain
under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Party and attorney names are preserved as they appear in
the original filings — we do not redact public-record names.

Every file in this corpus is a **real demand letter** — a pre-suit (or
pre-enforcement) communication from counsel asserting a claim, making specific
demands with a deadline, and stating consequences for non-compliance. Responses
to demand letters, termination letters, motion-to-dismiss exhibits that merely
reference demand letters, and other adjacent artifacts are not included here.

## Corpus (14 verified demand letters)

| # | File | Archetype | Statutory / doctrinal hook | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | `ma-93a-official-template.pdf` | Consumer UDAP | MA Ch. 93A § 9 (30-day) | mass.gov official template |
| 2 | `ma-93a-auto-body-repair.pdf` | Consumer UDAP (industry) | MA Ch. 93A § 9 | AASP-MA (industry association) |
| 3 | `defamation-retraction-minc.pdf` (+`.ocr.json`, `.ocr.md`) | Defamation retraction | Common law + state retraction statutes | Minc Law published sample; OCR via case.dev vision (doctr) |
| 4 | `employment-fmla-demand-letter.pdf` | Employment | 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. (FMLA) | Legal Momentum (non-profit) sample |
| 5 | `trademark-cd-bard-college-ncf.pdf` | Trademark cease & desist | Lanham Act | Bard College → New College of Florida, 2023 |
| 6 | `pi-ky-ayos-v-lalaji-demand.pdf` | Personal injury pre-suit | KY labor context; KRE 408 framing | *Ayos v. Lalaji*, Perry Cir. Ct. 22-CI-023 (via E.D. Ky. federal filing) |
| 7 | `pi-ga-witherite-liability-demand.pdf` | Personal injury — wrongful death policy limits | O.C.G.A. §§ 9-11-67.1, 51-4-4, 51-12-14 | Witherite Law Group, *Pierce* claim (N.D. Ga. 1:23-mi-99999-UNA) |
| 8 | `pi-ga-auto-allen-v-liberty-mutual-demand.pdf` | Personal injury — auto | GA common-law auto tort; demand to insurer | Berkshire → Liberty Mutual/Sedgwick, *Allen v. Burton*, May 2023 (N.D. Ga. filing) |
| 9 | `pi-ga-premises-dawson-v-kroger-shunnarah-demand.pdf` | Personal injury — premises liability | GA common-law premises | Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys, *Dawson v. Kroger*, April 2021 (N.D. Ga. filing) |
| 10 | `clra-ca-fca-jeep-wrangler-lieff-cabraser-demand.pdf` | Consumer class — CLRA | Cal. Civ. Code § 1782(a) (CLRA 30-day) | Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein → FCA US LLC, Feb 2024 (E.D. Mich. 2:24-cv-10546) |
| 11 | `multistate-mmwa-fca-slack-davis-sanger-demand.pdf` | Consumer class — MMWA + 50-state warranty | Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (15 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq.) + state UCC § 2-313 parallels | Slack Davis Sanger → FCA US LLC, Feb 2024 (E.D. Mich. 2:24-cv-10546) |
| 12 | `multistate-valsartan-pre-suit-notice-demand.pdf` | Consumer pharma — multi-state pre-suit | TX Bus. & Com. § 17.505, Cal. Civ. § 1782, Mass. Ch. 93A § 9, and parallel UDAP statutes in AK, GA, IN, ME, WV | Slack Davis Sanger → Huahai US et al., 2020 (Valsartan MDL 2875, D.N.J.) |
| 13 | `tradesecret-noncompete-west-shore-home-venable-demand.pdf` | Trade secret + non-compete cease & desist | Employment agreement + confidentiality/trade-secret law | Venable LLP → Bryan Chapman, Sept 2023 (M.D. Pa. 1:23-cv-01669) |
| 14 | `patent-ga-efa-v-marena-arnold-porter-demand.pdf` | Patent cease & desist | 35 U.S.C. § 271; U.S. Patent No. 7,555,922 | Arnold & Porter → The Marena Group LLC, May 2023 (N.D. Ga. 1:23-cv-02629) |

## Source URLs

```
1.  https://www.mass.gov/doc/sample-30-day-demand-letter-0/download
2.  https://aaspma.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/30-day-demand-letter.pdf
3.  https://www.minclaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Retraction-Demand-Letter-Sample.pdf
4.  https://www.legalmomentum.org/sites/default/files/reports/fmlademandletter.pdf
5.  https://www.ncf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-09-28-Cease-and-Desist-Letter-Bard-College.pdf
6.  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.kyed.100697/gov.uscourts.kyed.100697.31.2.pdf
7.  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.310324/gov.uscourts.gand.310324.1057.6.pdf
8.  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.310324/gov.uscourts.gand.310324.2134.4.pdf
9.  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.310324/gov.uscourts.gand.310324.2765.2.pdf
10. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.375495/gov.uscourts.mied.375495.24.62.pdf
11. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.375495/gov.uscourts.mied.375495.16.8.pdf
12. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.397935/gov.uscourts.njd.397935.577.2.pdf
13. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pamd.139722/gov.uscourts.pamd.139722.1.3.pdf
14. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.317106/gov.uscourts.gand.317106.1.3.pdf
```

## Known coverage gaps

RECAP search surfaced opinions and motions that reference these regimes but no
clean exhibit attachments were located. Better sourcing for these is via
law-firm or state-bar/AG published sample-letter banks.

| Archetype | Why desired |
|---|---|
| TX DTPA § 17.505 60-day notice | High-volume statutory pre-suit regime |
| FDCPA § 1692g / collection demand letter | High-volume consumer category |
| Florida med-mal pre-suit notice (Fla. Stat. Ch. 766) | Statutory screening regime |
| Construction defect notice (CA SB 800, TX Ch. 27, FL Ch. 558) | High-dollar statutory prerequisite |
| Commercial breach + cure notice | Largest practice area by volume |
| Landlord/tenant cure-or-quit | High-volume, but state court (not RECAP) |
| FLSA pre-suit unpaid-wages demand | Employees typically skip to complaint |
| TX Stowers demand | Multiple searches surfaced only motion-to-dismiss refs |

## Collection method

All court-exhibit PDFs sourced via `casedev search cases "<query>"` against the
CourtListener / RECAP archive. Every candidate was verified via
`pdftotext -layout` inspection before inclusion — the document itself must be a
demand letter, not a pleading that references one.

## OCR companion

`defamation-retraction-minc.pdf` is image-only. It was run through case.dev
vision (doctr) via a temporary vault and produced:

- `defamation-retraction-minc.ocr.json` — consolidated output: provenance,
  clean-text chunks, per-page words with bboxes and per-word confidence
- `defamation-retraction-minc.ocr.md` — readable markdown with reading-order
  reconstructed from bbox sort

Mean OCR confidence 93.3%. Raw OCR artifacts ("FMAND" for "DEMAND", etc.) are
preserved verbatim; the markdown note calls them out so a reader does not
attribute them to the source document.

## Removed from earlier drafts

Two files were deleted because they are not demand letters:

- `tx-sproul-defamation-retraction-exhibit.pdf` — a *response* from Paramount
  counsel to a Trump DTPA demand; belongs to a response-to-demand skill
- `employment-nj-termination-letter-exhibit-c.pdf` — an employer-to-employee
  termination letter; belongs to a wrongful-termination evaluation skill