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e-Commerce Best Practices
This article addresses how e-commerce companies can get a handle on managing organizational information, and outlines processes for retaining and managing key business information that could be salient in legal proceedings, regulatory matters or compliance issues.
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Landlord & Tenant
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
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Decisions of Interest
Rulings of importance to you and your practice.
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Case Notes
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
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Practice Tip: The Expanding World of the Product Liability Litigator
The specialty of product liability legal practice is greatly expanding. Modern day product liability litigators are called upon to litigate cases involving subject matter that is far more complex and varied than years past.
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Update on Retaliation Claims
Continuation of an analysis of <i>Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.</i>, wherein the Seventh Circuit held that an employee's strictly oral complaints about allegedly improper wage practices did not implicate the FLSA's prohibition of retaliation against those who have "filed any complaint."
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The PPC Trademark Battle Continues
This article recently ran in our sister publication entitled Internet Law & Strategy. We felt it was important to share with our readers.
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Enforceable Browse-Wrap Contracts
Doing business over the Internet is increasingly automated. In the past, Web sites used "terms of use" agreements which include an Internet mechanism to affirm consent to be bound by the agreement (click-wrap). Increasingly, browse-wrap agreements are replacing click-wrap agreements.
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Music Site Ruled Not 'Interactive' Enough
A Webcasting service that provides users with individualized Internet radio stations is not required to pay licensing fees to copyright holders of the songs the service plays, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
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Immunity for Web Site Owners
Web sites, social networks and other interactive service providers facilitate the display and exchange of a staggering amount of user-generated information, much of it idle chatter, meaningful commentary and helpful information, though some of it defamatory and offensive speech. Without certain protections, a site owner could face liability, and such a threat conceivably would have a chilling effect on the vibrant exchange of ideas on the Web.
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