A 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.
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.
Who's doing what; who's moving where.
A look at recent rulings of importance.
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.
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
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"?
New 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.
Some baby boomers have come of age on the wrong side of the law, and the older prison population is burgeoning. Fortunately, Booker and its progeny have superseded the Sentencing Guidelines' strict limitations on leniency based on age and health.
