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Eighth Circuit Rejects Ponzi Scheme Presumption to Protect Legitimate Loan Repayments Image

Eighth Circuit Rejects Ponzi Scheme Presumption to Protect Legitimate Loan Repayments

Michael L. Cook

The Eighth Circuit affirmed the lower courts' dismissal of a bankruptcy trustee's $250 million fraudulent transfer suit against two banks (the Banks), rejecting the so called “Ponzi scheme presumption” that “allows a creditor to by-pass the proof requirements of a fraudulent-transfer claim by showing that the debtor operated a Ponzi scheme and transferred assets 'in furtherance of the scheme.'”

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Complaints to Amazon by TV Show Host and His Attorney Didn't Constitute DMCA Notices<br>No Actual Malice by Defendants in Libel Suit over Composite Character in Film

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IP News

Jeff Ginsberg & Hui Li

Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Does Not Invalidate Section 156 Patent Term Extension <br>Federal Circuit Holds Assignor Estoppel Does Not Apply in IPR Context<br>Federal Circuit Reverses District Court Holding of Patent Ineligibility of Computer Security Patent

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Legal Tech: Cases Highlighting Judicial Discretion in Ordering E-Discovery Sanctions Image

Legal Tech: Cases Highlighting Judicial Discretion in Ordering E-Discovery Sanctions

Mike Hamilton

Three cases from the summer of 2018 reinforce some of the key themes of recent e-discovery case law

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Appellate Division Complicates the Rules for Municipalities Charging Consultants' Fees

Steven M. Silverberg & Katherine Zalantis

In a case addressing what consulting fees (in particular attorneys' fees) can be charged to an applicant before a Zoning Board of Appeals, the Second Department in Landstein v. Town of LaGrange found that the Town had overreached its statutory authority.

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Real Property Law

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Co-Tenant Obtains Partition Upon Failure of Adverse Possession Claim<br>Questions of Fact Remain About Violation of Covenant Requiring Use As a Catholic High School<br>Mortgagor's Letter Seeking Short Sale Did Not Reset Statute of Limitations on Mortgage<br>Failure to Construct Facility Triggers Reverter Provision in Deed<br>Questions of Fact About Whether Buyers Had Made Time of the Essence<br>No Equitable Mortgage When Statute of Limitations Bars Written Mortgage<br>Cotenant Entitled to Partition with Accounting

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Landlord & Tenant

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Video Surveillance an Adequate Substitute for Lobby Attendants<br>Yellowstone Injunction Unavailable When Tenant Could Not Establish Willingness to Cure<br>Landlord Prevails In Nonprimary Residence Proceeding

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Cooperatives and Condominiums

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Shareholder Can Compel Board to Cooperate With Building Department

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How Will the Music Modernization Act's Mechanical Licensing Collective Work? Image

How Will the Music Modernization Act's Mechanical Licensing Collective Work?

Chris Castle

This article focuses on managing change for clients affected by the MMA's government-mandated mechanical licensing collective. In my view, far from putting songwriters on a trajectory away from the government regulation that has oppressed them for generations, the collective imposes an entirely new bureaucracy with potentially significant costs that are not readily apparent.

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Conducting Due Diligence Today

Ryan McConnell & Stephanie Bustamante

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to due diligence, but some methods are significantly cheaper and more aligned to the business than others.

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