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Kenneth A. Adams
Contract-drafting expert Kenneth A. Adams offers recommendations for California courts to consider on what he believes is a faulty court of appeal decision on a still cloudy, implied covenant issue in the state's jurisprudence.
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Stan Soocher
Intermediate Date Used for Prejudgment Interest in Digital Downloads Fees Suit<br>Magistrate Quashes Bid to Depose Norman Lear in "Soul Men" Litigation<br>New York Laws Not Violated by Resales of Sports Game Tickets
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James Chadwick
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Thayer Preece
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and his teammates recently mowed down California's ban on violent video games with fully loaded First Amendment precedents and barbed retorts to opposing arguments. In doing so, the U.S. Supreme Court reinforced a fundamental point: First Amendment protections do not depend on the medium of communication. Thus, video games are protected speech, and restrictions based on their content will be subject to strict scrutiny.
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Stan Soocher
The U.S. Tax Court decided that fees received by international pro-golfer Retief Goosen for so-called "on-course" endorsement deals constituted both personal service and royalty income.
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Brendan Pierson
Attorneys may monitor jurors through online social networks as long as they do not contact the jurors or in any way make their monitoring known to them, the New York County Lawyers' Association said in a recent ethics opinion.
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ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
In-depth analysis of recent key cases.
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Richard Raysman
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Jonathan P. Mollod
This article discusses recent decisions regarding the use of copyrighted material in legal proceedings and the applicability of the fair use defense to allegations of infringement.
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Carol Most
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Adam Schneid
Recent amendments to DRL ' 236 Part B(9)(b) have changed the grounds for modifying a child support award. These changes have caused a profound shift in whether, and under what circumstances, parties should opt out of the Child Support Standards Act (CSSA).
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Jerome A. Wisselman
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Randall Malone
Visitation and child support issues can become intertwined in extreme cases of visitation denial. In these cases, a noncustodial parent may petition to suspend child support. A look at relevant case law.
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Janice G. Inman
New York's recent passage of the Marriage Equality Act no more opened up the federal government to recognizing same-sex marriage than did passage of similar legislation in Connecticut or Vermont.
