When a creditor enters the realm of bankruptcy, lenders often find that the many detailed provisions of an extensively negotiated intercreditor agreement are no longer controlling.
June 30, 2009John D. Fredericks
The FASB/IASB Boards issued a Discussion Paper titled Leases: Preliminary Views on March 19, 2009, inviting the public to comment by July 17, 2009.
June 30, 2009Bill BoscoBesides its changes to criminal law described in this issue, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (FERA), signed into law on May 20, 2009, significantly increases companies' exposure to civil lawsuits brought by the government and whistleblowers.
June 30, 2009Peter D. Hardy and Kaitlin M. PiccoloWith bona fides now suitably established, is it possible to actively leverage the USVI's fiber and bandwidth assets to deliver greater competitive and stakeholder advantage to the enterprise? Yes it is; an economic development program chartered in law by the USVI government, sanctioned under U.S. Treasury regulations and managed by the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park ("RTPark"), may be of particular interest to e-commerce and other knowledge-based businesses.
June 29, 2009David ZumwaltCopyright Preemption/Accounting Claims
Right of Publicity/Copyright Preemption
Right of Publicity/News Exception
Trademark Disputes/Infringement DefensesJune 29, 2009Stan SoocherRecent happenings of importance.
June 29, 2009ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |When the cash-strapped recording industry announced at the end of 2008 that it would largely drop its aggressive litigation campaign against unauthorized file sharers, some observers saw this as a defeat for record labels. But numerous court rulings have been issued over the past few years that debate and/or establish legal guidelines that will be referenced in file-sharer cases that are either still in the pipeline or may later crop up. This article examines some of the most recent of these cases and decisions.
June 29, 2009Stan SoocherA spate of billion- and hundred-million-dollar settlements with the Department of Justice (DOJ) illustrates how the investigation of off-label promotions of drugs and devices has emerged as a predominant theory in pharmaceutical and medical-device prosecutions.
June 29, 2009Michael Kendall and Nicole Colby LongtonHere, tha authors continue to look at some of the rules of evidence that all family law attorneys should be aware of, even if they aren't called upon to use them as often as legal practitioners in other fields.
June 29, 2009Bari Brandes Corbin and Evan B. Brandes