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Survey Says: Tips on Getting Over the Daubert Hurdle Image

Survey Says: Tips on Getting Over the Daubert Hurdle

Rebecca Kirk Fair, Peter Hess & Vendela Fehrm

Surveys can provide useful evidence in litigation if they are conducted by a qualified expert employing reliable methods that survive a Daubert challenge. In the first of a series of articles drawing on our review of over 300 U.S. court rulings in cases involving surveys, including over 150 Daubert motions, we provide some suggestions for getting survey evidence admitted for consideration in court.

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Update on Corporate Bankruptcy Tax Refund Litigation Image

Update on Corporate Bankruptcy Tax Refund Litigation

Michael L. Cook

The bankruptcy trustee of a bank holding company was not entitled to a consolidated corporate tax refund when a bank subsidiary had incurred losses generating the refund, Tenth Circuit held.

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Real Estate Loan Workout: Exchange of Enhancements for Concessions Image

Real Estate Loan Workout: Exchange of Enhancements for Concessions

Richard S. Fries

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a property owner might reach out to its lender for urgent, needed debt relief. The lender, which strives for a performing asset, an on-going relationship with its customer makes concessions. In exchange for these concessions, the lender should obtain credit and legal enhancements., which should also enable the lender to make concessions that are more meaningful to the property owner, its investors, its tenants and its business.

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Co-ops and Condominiums

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Sponsor Correctly Calculated Reserve Fund Shareholder Did Not Breach Survival of Closing Affidavit

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Recent Court Views on "Making Available" Controversy In Copyright Infringement Image

Recent Court Views on "Making Available" Controversy In Copyright Infringement

Stan Soocher

Federal courts have long disagreed over whether the unauthorized "making available" of a plaintiff's works to the public is sufficient to constitute copyright infringement under the U.S. Copyright Act. Two June District Court decisions demonstrated the differences between the views of the Fourth and Ninth Circuits.

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Defense Counsel Discuss Outcome in Dance Steps Case

Jenna Greene

Kirkland & Ellis has notched a win in cutting-edge litigation that questions the protectability of dance steps, what constitutes choreography and the relationship between copyright, and right of publicity and trademark law.

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Landlord & Tenant Law

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Lease Provision Does Not Bar Conversion Claim for Damages After Issuance of Warrant of Eviction

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IP News

Jeff Ginsberg & Zhiqiang Liu

Federal Circuit Finds Preamble Not Limiting and Claims Reciting Means-Plus-Function Limitations Without Disclosure of Corresponding Structures Cannot Be Determined Unpatentable as Indefinite in an IPR Proceeding Federal Circuit Finds That District Court Correctly Applied the Disclosure-Dedication Doctrine In Granting a Motion for Judgment of Non-Infringement on the Pleadings

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Right of Publicity Laws Don't Pierce CDA Immunity Shield Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Wolf of Wall Street Defamation Suit

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SEC Targeting Fraudulent Disclosures During Pandemic

Russell Koonin & Adam Schwartz

In the midst the current COVID-19 pandemic, the SEC is paying attention. The Division of Enforcement has made clear that it will act, and act quickly, to stop fraudulent conduct that falls under its jurisdiction related to the pandemic.

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