Summary Judgment for Domino's in Death of Franchisee's Employee: Will It Last?
Franchisor That Sleeps on Its Rights May Not Be Able to Enforce Them
October 02, 2015Darryl A. Hart
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.
October 01, 2015Marisa KendallFederal Circuit: In An IPR Proceeding, The Burden Lies With The Petitioner To Show 'Substantial Evidence' That The Prior Art Patent Is Entitled To The Priority Date Of Its Provisional Application
Federal Circuit: Scope Of Reexamination Claims Is Reviewed De NovoSeptember 30, 2015Howard J. Shire and Brent T. HagenThe Future of the Music Business 4th Edition, by Steve Gordon.
September 02, 2015ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |This summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 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.
September 02, 2015Thomas E. ChaseConsumer Suit Over Beats Music App Sent to Arbitration
No Right of Publicity Claim for Company, But Individual with Same Name as Company Can Proceed
"Procure Employment" Clause in California Talent Agencies Act Survives "Vagueness" ChallengeSeptember 02, 2015Stan SoocherLex 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.
September 02, 2015Lisa ShuchmanInfidelity 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.
September 02, 2015Ross ToddHaving been urged to do so by the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit recently expanded liability under 35 U.S.C. '271(a) for direct infringement of a method patent involving more than one actor (divided infringement).
September 02, 2015Elizabeth B. Hagan and David K. TelleksonWhen organizations discuss ESI, it almost always revolves around three core groups: legal and/or compliance; records management; and, of course, IT. Despite the fact that they all are responsible for important business functions associated with this data, they are seldom on the same page.
September 02, 2015Doug Yarabinetz