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GA Appeals Court Rules Rapper T.I. Not Liable for Attack at Studio Image

GA Appeals Court Rules Rapper T.I. Not Liable for Attack at Studio

Katheryn Hayes Tucker

“What started off as a jam-packed week of parties, concerts, and watching renowned rappers mixing new music tracks in the waning days of summer abruptly ended with Norris Gresham being dragged down a flight of 30 stairs and viciously pistol whipped in front of a crowd of onlookers.”

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Preference Attacks To Recover Prepetition Compensation Paid to Consultants of Troubled Companies Image

Preference Attacks To Recover Prepetition Compensation Paid to Consultants of Troubled Companies

Paul A. Rubin & Hanh V. Huynh

Employees of a troubled company who stay on as consultants to assist in liquidating its assets or preparing the company for a bankruptcy filing may later be disappointed to face claims to claw back their prepetition compensation.

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Inheriting Tenants in Default? Image

Inheriting Tenants in Default?

Ira Fierstein & Michelle Palka

An Illinois Appellate Court recently ruled in favor of a commercial tenant after a new owner acquired a commercial building and attempted to collect accrued unpaid rent owed to the previous landlord.

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FCA Cases: Convincing DOJ to Move to Dismiss

Jacqueline C. Wolff

Recent actions by the DOJ suggest that although the DOJ may continue to prosecute certain relators' FCA cases, other relators may find themselves on the other side of a government motion to dismiss.

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Eminent Domain

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Condemnation Award Reduced

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SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case Determining Federal Registrability of Immoral and Scandalous Trademarks Image

SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case Determining Federal Registrability of Immoral and Scandalous Trademarks

Dana Justus & Monica Riva Talley

This case should determine the availability of federal trademark registration for “immoral” and “scandalous” marks – in this case, the acronym “FUCT” for a clothing line.

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Monopolizing the Disruptive

Arthur Beeman

<i><b>The Federal Circuit's Threat to Software Innovation in the </i>Oracle v. Google<i>Decisions</i>&lt;</b><p>The Federal Circuit decisions in the Oracle v. Google copyright case rattled Silicon Valley not simply because the decisions upended software developers' understandings of copyright law, but also because the decisions do not comport with the disruptive ethos of the technology industry.

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Second Circuit Blocks Video Privacy Suit Brought Against Barnes & Noble Image

Second Circuit Blocks Video Privacy Suit Brought Against Barnes & Noble

Jenna Greene

A would-be class action against Barnes &amp; Noble could have cost the bookseller hundreds of millions of dollars — not to mention a reputational hit for allegedly sharing private information about its customers' online video purchases with Facebook.

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Real Property Law

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Title Insurance Inducements<br>Purchaser's Willful Default/Down Payment<br>Tortious Interference Claim Reinstated<br>Easement Scope<br>Mortgage Acceleration

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Quasi-Bankruptcy Quagmires

Howard C. Rubin & Deirdre M. Richards

<i><b>When Entities May Not Have a Filing Choice and How Creditors Are Impacted</i></b><p>This article explores the difficulties some entities have encountered in filing bankruptcies and how one organization used extraordinary civil remedies in an attempt to accomplish what reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code would have provided.

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