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Darryl A. Hart
Summary Judgment for Domino's in Death of Franchisee's Employee: Will It Last? <br>Franchisor That Sleeps on Its Rights May Not Be Able to Enforce Them
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Marisa Kendall
Colleges can't be required to let star athletes cash in on their celebrity status, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled on Sept. 30, reversing part of a landmark antitrust decision that had called into question the NCAA's entire business model.
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Amanda Bronstad
It was the worst data breach in the history of the U.S. government, and now the Justice Department says the ensuing lawsuits filed in six different jurisdictions belong in a single court in Washington, DC.
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Thomas E. Chase
This summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided <i>Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures,</i> an important decision concerning whether Fox's unpaid interns were "employees" under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law and, therefore, entitled to recover minimum wage, plus time-and-a-half for overtime, for the periods they worked at Fox.
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Stan Soocher
Consumer Suit Over Beats Music App Sent to Arbitration<br>No Right of Publicity Claim for Company, But Individual with Same Name as Company Can Proceed<br>"Procure Employment" Clause in California Talent Agencies Act Survives "Vagueness" Challenge
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Lisa Shuchman
Lex Machina, a legal analytics company that grew out of a project run by Stanford University's law school and its computer science department, has published a 37-page "copyright litigation report" developed from litigation data and court decisions covering thousands of copyright cases filed in U.S. district courts over the past five years. The report analyzes key filings, findings, judgment types, decisions, resolutions, damages and other data.
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Hal Marcus
Businesses across a range of industries see the value in optimizing their processes, as doing so can have a significant impact on both their top and bottom lines. The challenge has always been how to gain insight into the areas of inefficiency and execute a plan to optimize.
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Dennis A. Dressler
Spousal guaranties are about to receive additional scrutiny now that the United States Supreme Court has decided to grant certiorari to a decision by the Eighth Circuit regarding whether a spousal guarantor is an "applicant" entitled to bring an action under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and related implementing regulation (Regulation B).
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Ross Todd
Infidelity website AshleyMadison.com and its parent company Avid Life Media Inc. have been hit with a pair of class actions in Los Angeles federal court stemming from the site's recent data breach.
