Noise complaints have long been an occupational hazard for venue operators, musicians and concert promoters. The surge in the electronic dance music scene has added to the number of complaints. What might be enjoyable entertainment to one person may sound like a thunderous racket to another.
This article reviews the recommended due diligence efforts of the purchaser's counsel with respect to leased commercial property, and elaborates on the pre- and post-closing rationales for completing such diligence review. The main focus of this article is the due diligence activities and rationale of counsel to a potential purchaser of all of the stock of a selling entity. Where relevant, it incorporates the alternate considerations that might arise in the context of an asset purchase or merger structure.
The battle over expert testimony on patent damages harkens back to the middle ages when would-be attackers developed new strategies for laying siege to a castle, defensive counter-measures were developed to thwart those siege tactics. As plaintiffs have introduced expert testimony based on novel patent damages theories, defendants have asked courts to fulfill their gatekeeping role by preventing certain types of expert testimony from reaching the jury.
With urging from Facebook, Craigslist, eBay and others, the Ninth Circuit has agreed to reconsider a controversial ruling about website operators' duty to warn about potential harm by third parties.
A teacher in Union Township in Union County, NJ, who faced tenure charges over her anti-gay postings on Facebook can proceed with her civil rights suit against the school district, a federal judge in Newark has ruled.
A Philadelphia jury on Feb. 24 awarded $2.5 million to the plaintiff in the first of roughly 1,250 Risperdal mass-tort cases in the city's courts.
Discussion of a recent ruling from New Jersey.
A federal judge in Newark dismissed multidistrict litigation against Google Inc. and Viacom Inc. in rejecting claims that the companies' online data collection violates the privacy of children under 13.
Texas Court of Appeals Upholds Ruling for Lawyer Defendant in Malpractice Suit over TV Network Stock Dispute
TV Executive Can't Get Punitive Damages from Alleged Fraud in Hiring
Typically, the production of data in litigation involves a series of disconnected actions involving several corporate or cloud-based systems. These disassociated e-discovery activities ' identify, preserve, collect, and track (IPCT) ' are then feed into a downstream set of processing, review, and production (PRP) steps often hosted outside the corporate firewall. Fortunately, technology advances are helping counsel and client alike to integrate systems and streamline processes both inside and across the firewall.
