Commercial Law

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Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

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Regular readers of blogs and other Internet-based sources of news and information know it's not unusual to see product reviews in these virtual venues. While the reviews sometimes appear to be careful, impartial journalism, other times the writer seems just a bit too enthusiastic about the post's subject matter. Of course, readers have good reasons to question just how impartial the authors of these reviews might be.

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This article addresses how e-commerce companies can get a handle on managing organizational information, and outlines processes for retaining and managing key business information that could be salient in legal proceedings, regulatory matters or compliance issues.

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The California Franchise Tax Board recently told California franchisees to begin withholding 7% of all lease and royalty payments to out-of-state franchisors that exceed $1,500 per calendar year.

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The FTC's new guidance makes it clear that companies that are involved in encouraging a message about their products or services in non-traditional media, such that they are essentially sponsoring the messages, even if by consumers or celebrities, will be responsible as the advertiser for the message. Although the FTC acknowledges the limited ability in social and other evolving media to clear and control these types of messages, it places the burden of the risk on both the sponsor and the speaker.

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When real property is held by two or more owners as tenants in common, joint tenants, or tenants by the entirety, termination of the cotenancy all too frequently generates litigation about the terms of the termination.

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An easy-to-use list of everything included in this issue.

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An injured firefighter's entire federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund award constitutes separate property for the purposes of equitable distribution, a state appeals court in Brooklyn has ruled.