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On Nov. 14, 1988, the Honorable Gerald E. Delaney of the N.Y. Supreme Court, Westchester County, released a decision that limited the utility of the New York Franchise Law's isolated sales exemption. His decision in The National Survival Game of New York, Inc. v. NSG of LI Corp. (200 N.Y.L.J. No. 93, p. 27; CCH Business Franchise Guide ' 9294, at 19,622) remains the law in New York. But did Justice Delaney get it right?
Franchise sales in the United States are regulated by both federal and state law. The federal FTC Franchise Rule requires franchisors to provide prospective franchisees with a copy of a disclosure document before taking any money or signing any agreement. Fifteen states also regulate the sale of franchises, and some of these states have both a registration requirement and their own disclosure document requirement. New York is one of these states. But the franchise statute in New York, as well as Indiana, Minnesota, and Washington, provides an exception for isolated franchise sales.
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.
In recent years, there has been a growing number of dry cleaners claiming to be "organic," "green," or "eco-friendly." While that may be true with respect to some, many dry cleaners continue to use a cleaning method involving the use of a solvent called perchloroethylene, commonly known as perc. And, there seems to be an increasing number of lawsuits stemming from environmental problems associated with historic dry cleaning operations utilizing this chemical.