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Stephanie Forshee
During this year's annual Tony awards recognizing Broadway theater, Whoopi Goldberg took to the stage to announce that the musical revival of Falsettos would be hitting movie theaters nationwide in July. Falsettos, which played at Lincoln Center Theater in New York, was nominated for five Tonys, but a deal had been negotiated long before the June 11 awards broadcast to make the stage production into a piece of event cinema.
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ljnstaff
A look at several rulings, including an article 78 proceeding challenging grant of an area variance to proposed operators of a religious school.
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Theodore H. Davis Jr.
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Samuel T. Kilb
In <i>Matal v. Tam,</i> the SCOTUS held that a portion of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1052(a), prohibiting the federal registration of potentially disparaging trademarks and service marks, violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.
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Dixie L. Johnson
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M. Alexander Koch
<b><I>Potential Ramifications of SEC Disgorgement Being a Penalty</b></i><p> <b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</I></b><p>In reference to <I>Kokesh</I>, most commentators have focused on the five-year limitations period, which certainly carries important ramifications for the SEC. But as we describe here, the Supreme Court's ruling that "SEC disgorgement constitutes a penalty" has more far-reaching ramifications.
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Pamela J. Martinson
Structured financing transactions make extensive use of entities formed for the specific purpose of reducing the likelihood that assets will be involved in a potential bankruptcy proceeding. Known as "bankruptcy-remote entities," or "BREs," these entities are subject to structures and covenants in financing documents and their own formation documents, which are designed to reduce the likelihood that the BRE will file for bankruptcy protection.
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Gary Riveles
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Mark G. Phillips
While the deposition testimony usually does not win the case, in a medical negligence matter, it can definitely lose it. The stakes for a physician today are higher than they have ever been. It is not an infrequent occurrence that any report to the Databank gets a review by both the State Board of Medical Examiners and any health insurer on whose panel the provider has privileges. Our clients deserve better.
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J. Alexander Lawrence
The Supreme Court sparked a seismic shift in patent litigation recently when it upset the long-standing interpretation of 28 U.S.C. §1400(b), the special patent venue statute. TC Heartland held that for the purposes of patent venue, the meaning of "resides" in Section 1400(b) is not supplemented by the broad definition of "resides" in the general venue provision, 28 U.S.C. §1391.
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ljnstaff
Analysis of a case involving condemnation.
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Robert W. Ihne
Who's doing what; who's going where.
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Janice G. Inman
OnJune 19, the U.S. Supreme Court upended years of jurisprudence to hand corporations a gift: a far more stringent definition of specific jurisdiction that will force plaintiffs to bring suit in multiple state courts rather than join their claims to those in far-flung jurisdictions.
