This article explores a social networking site user's right to privacy, an adversary's right to obtain information from that site, and the admissibility of the information.
November 25, 2008Ronald J. Levine and Susan L. Swatski-Lebson
Crew Member Injury/Employee Status
Merchandising Rights/Film Remakes
Trademark Infringement/First Amendment DefenseNovember 25, 2008Stan SoocherA magistrate for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California decided that a copyright and trademark infringement defendant couldn't file an impleader action against his former lawyer for secondary or derivative liability.
November 25, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana grant- ed a defendant's motion to transfer to New York federal court a suit over the alleged unauthorized use of the names and likenesses of legendary baseball players, including Lou Gehrig, Thurman Munson and Jackie Robinson.
November 25, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Who's doing what; who's moving where.
November 25, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |A look at recent rulings of importance.
November 25, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Plaintiffs' attorneys have filed several lawsuits in recent months involving two recalled drugs, the generic blood thinner heparin, and prescription medication Digitek, that could signal a clean break from past actions that were far less successful against drugs Vioxx and Paxil.
November 25, 2008Amanda BronstadRecent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
November 25, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |A recent ruling by the Court of Appeals puts a whole new, and subjective, definition to the term "cohabitation": At the time that the agreement was entered into, what did the parties themselves mean when they stated the word "cohabit"?
November 25, 2008Janice G. InmanNew York's law on levies of rents pursuant to money judgment is most peculiar. The obligation of a tenant (T) to pay rent runs with the land. Let us call the forward-looking obligation of a tenant to pay rent a "rent receivable." New York law insists that the rent receivable is real property. Once the rent receivable is actually paid, the proceeds are considered the landlord's personal property. Collection of the rent "severs" the dollars from the real property.
November 25, 2008David Gray Carlson