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FASB Issues Lease Accounting Discussion Paper Inviting You to Comment

Bill Bosco

The FASB/IASB Boards issued a Discussion Paper titled <i>Leases: Preliminary Views</i> on March 19, 2009, inviting the public to comment by July 17, 2009.

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Expanded False Claims Liability

Peter D. Hardy & Kaitlin M. Piccolo

Besides 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.

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Virgin Advantage from a New, Near-Shore Corporate Frontier

David Zumwalt

With 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.

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Cameo Clips

Stan Soocher

Copyright Preemption/Accounting Claims<br>Right of Publicity/Copyright Preemption<br>Right of Publicity/News Exception<br>Trademark Disputes/Infringement Defenses

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Legal Lessons Gleaned from Music Industry's High-Profile, File-Sharing Litigation Image

Legal Lessons Gleaned from Music Industry's High-Profile, File-Sharing Litigation

Stan Soocher

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.

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Off-Label Promotion of Drugs and Medical Devices

Michael Kendall & Nicole Colby Longton

A 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.

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Evidence and Family Practice

Bari Brandes Corbin & Evan B. Brandes

Here, 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.

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Pre-Separation Dissipation and the Marital Estate

Mark Momjian

Over a generation ago, few contested divorce actions involved claims of economic misconduct. As the current recession deepens, these claims are not only on the rise, but they appear to be the rule in many cases.

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