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New Net-Use Tracking Tactics Capture Privacy Claims Image

New Net-Use Tracking Tactics Capture Privacy Claims

Jonathan Bick & Elan Raffel

The use of new technology makes peoples' efforts to keep Internet behavior private more difficult, has given rise to renewed claims from consumers of unlawful intrusiveness by Internet data-collectors, and has revived the argument that such behavior unlawfully violates privacy expectations.

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Small Impact on Practice Predicted from White House IP Recommendations

Zack Needles

When the White House's intellectual-property enforcement coordinator, Victoria Espinel, submitted a wish list to Congress in March recommending 20 changes to federal intellectual property law largely aimed at ramping up criminal punishment for IP infringement, IP lawyers said the white paper recommendations would likely have only a tenuous effect, if any, on civil IP litigation or patent prosecution.

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<b>Decision of Note</b> MI Supreme Court Dismisses Claim over Backstage Taping Image

<b>Decision of Note</b> MI Supreme Court Dismisses Claim over Backstage Taping

Stan Soocher

The Supreme Court of Michigan dismissed an eavesdropping claim by city officials who were taped backstage while demanding that a video they considered improper for young audience members not be played during a Detroit concert that featured rappers Dr. Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dogg.

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Fourth Quarter e-Commerce: Lookin' Good!

Michael Lear-Olimpi

Fourth-quarter 2010 estimated U.S. retailing rose 3.6% over the third quarter, the Census Bureau reports, as consumer confidence rose through the Christmas season on a wave of slightly rising employment.

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Evolving Online Advertising Techniques

Alan L. Friel

The federal government roared into March like a lion on online advertising, privacy and data'security practices, but hardly left like a lamb.

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Reviving the Not'Quite Dead Image

Reviving the Not'Quite Dead

Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

Congress passed the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act ("ROSCA") to great public acclaim late last year. But was the new law necessary? Dictionary.com defines restore in several parts, but all refer to bringing back something "lost" or "dead." Looking at recent online business statistics, though, how can anyone reasonably believe that online shopping was "lost" or "dead," much less in need of the "restoration" desired by the new law's authors?

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Assumption of Liabilities

Patrick J. Leddy, Charles M. Oellermann & Joseph M. Witalec

A buyer purchases certain assets and assumes certain liabilities of a seller under an asset purchase agreement. However, after the transaction closes, the buyer files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and eventually rejects the asset purchase agreement. From a deal lawyer's perspective, the issue is: What impact does the bankruptcy filing and the contract rejection have on the carefully drafted, thoroughly negotiated asset purchase agreement?

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What's New in the Law

Robert Ihne

Highlights of the latest equipment leasing cases.

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How Will 100% Bonus Depreciation Impact Like Kind Exchange Programs for Lessors in 2011? Image

How Will 100% Bonus Depreciation Impact Like Kind Exchange Programs for Lessors in 2011?

Jeff Nelson

With the enactment of 100% bonus depreciation under the "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010," many companies with active Like Kind Exchange programs are wondering whether it makes sense to suspend their LKE programs for the balance of 2011.

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Non-Compete and Trade Secret Concerns for In-house Lawyers

Michael Greco

Here is a Top Ten list of concerns for in-house lawyers and the companies they represent.

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