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California Talent Agencies Act Isn't "Vague"<br>Motion to Amend Is Granted In Dispute Over Sale Opportunity for Ben E. King Song Royalties<br>"Thin" Copyright Protection for Jokes
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NORTH CAROLINANine Individuals Now Indicted for $2.5 Million Investment Fraud SchemeOn April 27, a Western District of North Carolina grand jury…
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Drug & Device News
A settlement was reached Feb. 10 between McNeil Consumer Healthcare (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson) and more than 200 plaintiffs who claim liver damage from taking Tylenol.
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Case Notes
On April 6, Florida's Supreme Court announced that a lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. may go forward, rejecting the cigarette manufacturer's argument that federal preemption foreclosed the right of an injured smoker and his representatives to bring state-law tort claims against it for marketing cigarettes.
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Drug & Device News
Discussion of a case in which 64 people died and nearly 700 more were sickened in 2012 after receiving injections of steroids prepared at the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, MA.
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BIT PARTS
California Court of Appeal Interprets Incontestability Clause in Profit Participation Agreements<br>Eleventh Circuit Affirms Counterfeit DVDs Restitution Award for Hollywood Studios
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Development
A look at a case involving a billboard variance.
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UPCOMING EVENT
New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section Annual Spring Meeting
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In the Courts
Discussion of a ruling in which the Third Circuit Third affirmed the conviction and 42-month sentence of a man convicted in a PA bribery case.
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Med Mal News
A look at the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017.
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