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Confronting the Forensic Facts

Marjorie J. Peerce & Elizabeth S. Weinstein

A pair of recent Supreme Court cases built upon the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause, <i>Crawford v. Washington</i> and <i>Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts</i>, have given criminal defense attorneys potent new weapons to challenge forensic evidence proffered by the government

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DOJ, Heal Thyself

Jim Walden & Georgia Winston

The uptick in implosions of high-profile criminal cases has been cause for concern among the DOJ's most ardent supporters. Policymakers need to ask whether the DOJ is doing as much to mitigate its own risks of employee misconduct as it requires of the companies it investigates and prosecutes.

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Credit (Bid) Where Credit's Due

James H.M. Sprayregen, Christopher J. Marcus, David A. Agay & Benjamin J. Steele

This article concludes last month's article on the ability of a secured creditor to credit bid its claims at a sale under ' 363(k) or ' 1129(b)(2)(A)(ii).

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The Intersection of Receiverships and Bankruptcy

R. Todd Neilson & Grant T. Stein

The intersection of bankruptcy and federal and state receiverships has become a fairly regular occurrence around the country. Cases from Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, New York and Oregon evidence that such incidents are taking place all across the country. There is a tension reflected in some of the cases between the primacy of the orderly and well-developed bankruptcy structure as compared with the much less structured alternative of receivership proceedings.

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Counsel Concerns

Stan Soocher

Knowledge of Royalty Settlement Starts Malpractice Limitations Period

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Interpreting FTC's New Endorsement Guidelines

Alan L. Friel

This series examines changes to the Federal Trade Commission guidelines for product endorsements and testimonials. The revised new guidelines took effect Dec. 1, 2009.

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Examining the 'Harmless Errors' Provision for Copyright Termination Notices

Stan Soocher

Record labels fear the ticking clock that will allow recording artists to terminate post-1977 sound-recording assignments beginning in 2013. That's because '203 of the U.S. Copyright Act provides for a grantor's recapture of assigned copyrights during a five-year period beginning 35 years after publication or 40 years from the assigning of a work. The termination right applies beyond sound-recording copyrights. Pre-1978 copyright assignments may be recaptured under 17 U.S.C. '304(c) during a five-year period that begins 56 years after the copyright in an assigned work was initially procured

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IP Expenses

Greg Lanier & Eric Cha

In-house lawyers can do great good for their companies by deploying IP assets to realize direct monetary return for their companies, but they are under more pressure to reduce expenses because of the inaccurate perception that IP-related expenses do not add to the bottom line, a perception that stems from accounting conventions.

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A Viking on Choppy Waters

Robert D. Goodman & Steve Vaccaro

When the New York Court of Appeals issued its decision in <i>Consolidated Edison Company v. Allstate Insurance Co.</i>, the issue of allocating liability for continuing losses among multiple insurers consecutively liable for the loss appeared to be all but settled. This approach to allocation has been called into question, however, by the recent decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery in <i>Viking Pump, Inc. v. Century Indem. Co.</i>

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Court Watch

Charles G. Miller & Darryl A. Hart

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

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