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Defending Suits Brought By Copyright Trolls

Nancy J. Mertzel

An overview of copyright troll litigation and explores potential litigation strategies for responding to troll cases.

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Cutting Off the Stream: How United States v. Silver Affects "Stream of Benefits" or "Retainer" Bribery Image

Cutting Off the Stream: How United States v. Silver Affects "Stream of Benefits" or "Retainer" Bribery

James D. Gatta, Andrew Kim & Emily M. Notini

Although the court stressed that, by vacating certain of former NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's counts of conviction, it was clarifying and not altering the "as opportunities arise" theory, it nevertheless emphasized that this theory requires particularity with respect to the "question or matter" that is the subject of the bribe payor and recipient's corrupt agreement.

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Parent of Secured Creditor Does Not Automatically Gain Secured Status

Rudolph J. Di Massa Jr. & Drew S. McGehrin

The ruling in In re Jarvis that the grant of a security interest to a corporate lender will not necessarily "spread" that security interest to the lender's affiliates underscores the need for precision and care in the drafting of loan documents, particularly with respect to the granting language contained in security agreements.

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Copyright Termination Claims Found Timely, But Loan-Out Companies Can't Terminate Copyright Assignments Judge Unhappy With Damon Dash's Trial Behavior New York Federal Court Sees No Copyright Infringement or False Endorsement in Use of Mural in Film

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Legal Tech: 7 Steps to Make Your E-Discovery Process Pandemic and Recession-Ready

Brian Schrader

For the legal profession in general, and e-discovery specifically, one of the biggest ways a recession is felt is through litigation budget pressure. To weather a recession, we need to be prepared to do more with fewer resources.

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Personal Guaranty of Commercial Lease Held Discharged in Guarantor's Bankruptcy

Andrew C. Kassner & Joseph N. Argentina Jr.

As we prepare for the anticipated increase in bankruptcy filings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the economy, many practitioners are trying to compare this to the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s. One of the issues that keeps coming up cycle after cycle is whether a personal guaranty of a commercial lease is discharged in the bankruptcy of the individual guarantor. Court decisions have split on this issue for years.

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Judge Warns Facebook in Approving Record $5B Fine for Alleged Privacy Violations Image

Judge Warns Facebook in Approving Record $5B Fine for Alleged Privacy Violations

Jacqueline Thomsen

The Judge Pointed Out that Some FTC Commissioners Wanted to Specifically Sanction Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg for the Company Sharing Private User Data With Outside Parties A federal judge in Washington, DC, signed off on a record $5 billion fine imposed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Facebook for allegedly violating federal law and a previous order with its privacy practices.

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Challenge to Property Tax Rejected

Stewart E. Sterk

No one disputes that the property tax system in New York City is byzantine. In Tax Equity Now LLC v. City of New York, the First Department confronted what it viewed as a very different question: is it illegal. The court concluded that it is not, rejecting a variety of claims and leaving any reform to the legislature.

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Real Property Law

ssalkin

Equitable Mortgage Enjoys Priority over Mortgage Recorded After Filing of Notice of Pendency Purchaser from Church Not Entitled to Specific Performance Questions of Fact Preclude Summary Judgment on Prescriptive Easement Claims Hearing Necessary to Determine Whether Mortgagee De-Accelerated Mortgage

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Landlord & Tenant Law

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Loft Board Lacks Authority to Supervise Legalization Once Tenants Withdraw Application Tenant Entitled to Relief from Failure to Timely Exercise Renewal Option

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