The U.S. Supreme Court on June 1 revived a discrimination lawsuit that accused Abercrombie & Fitch Co. of refusing to hire a Muslim woman because she wore a religious headscarf.
June 02, 2015Zoe Tillman and Marcia Coyle
Who's going where; who's doing what.
June 02, 2015ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |The work of an individual performer in a film isn't protected by copyright law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided when it ruled in an 11-judge en banc decision that actress Cindy Lee Garcia couldn't use copyright law to force Google to remove a five-second clip of the film Innocence of Muslims from YouTube and other Internet platforms.
June 02, 2015Marisa KendallLittle more than a week after music-streaming service Pandora Inc. won a key ruling in its royalty rate dispute with ASCAP, Pandora was dealt a setback in a parallel fight with ASCAP's rival performing rights organization, BMI.
June 02, 2015Scott Flaherty and Mark HamblettEscheatment laws are voluminous and could appear to be unrealistic to keep up with; however, knowing that they are there can spare you from an unwelcomed unclaimed property audit.
June 02, 2015Lauren Taguer and Bill SansoneOver the years of my consulting practice, I have seen many formerly great law firms fail and go under. The reason? They lost the anchor to their core values, and then started drifting into issues and concerns that eventually destroyed them from within. Herein, I try to lay out what can be done to keep the anchor holding.
June 02, 2015William C. CobbI am a management safety and health lawyer. For the first 30 years of my practice, I provided counsel to employers in hundreds of cases involving serious injuries. Twenty-four of those cases involved fatalities. None involved workplace violence. In the last five years, however, clients have increasingly sought my assistance with employee-on-employee violence issues.
June 02, 2015Brad S. HilesDynamic pricing is the practice of offering different prices to consumers based on various factors designed to maximize sales and profits, which may include the retailer's perception of the willingness of a particular consumer to pay at a given price point. This can be the basis for personalized pricing, the "holy grail" of which is to develop a methodology for "perfect price discrimination" that maximizes the amount each individual consumer is willing to pay.
June 02, 2015Alan Friel and Hannah BloinkRecent cases advance debate on Franchisor-Franchisee relationships.
June 02, 2015Zach EysterThe owner of entertainment intellectual property often faces concerns about maximizing licensing revenues while addressing the restrictions of federal and state laws that create those rights. Because a given IP right may involve federal law and state law ' through associated trade secrets or confidential information ' licensing of that IP mix often presents a challenge to maximizing an entertainment IP owner's potential revenue generation.
June 02, 2015Anthony S. Volpe and Max S. Morgan