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Update on Bankruptcy Appellate Practice: Part Two — Equitable Mootness Image

Update on Bankruptcy Appellate Practice: Part Two — Equitable Mootness

Michael L. Cook

This installment of our appellate practice series reviews recent cases addressing the equitable mootness doctrine. The issue ultimately often turns on whether it is practical and fair for an appellate court to review an appeal on the merits, enabling that court to avoid review altogether.

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Miramax's NFT Suit Over Pulp Fiction Image

Miramax's NFT Suit Over Pulp Fiction

Scott Graham

The Miramax film and tv studio, and its lawyers at Proskauer Rose, shook up both the IP and blockchain communities recently when Miramax sued to block film director Quentin Tarantino from selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of memorabilia from his 1994 blockbuster movie Pulp Fiction.

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Reckless Disregard for the Truth of a Material Statement Made to the USPTO Is Sufficient for Proving the Intent to Deceive Image

Reckless Disregard for the Truth of a Material Statement Made to the USPTO Is Sufficient for Proving the Intent to Deceive

Li-Jen Shen, Cory Smith & George C. Chen

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has finally filled a gap left by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the standard for finding deceptive intent when trying to prove fraud on the USPTO.

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Chapter 15 Can Impact Foreign Bankruptcy As Well As Domestic Civil Litigation Image

Chapter 15 Can Impact Foreign Bankruptcy As Well As Domestic Civil Litigation

Francis J. Lawall & Patrick M. Ryan

At first glance, Chapter 15 might appear to have the relatively minor role of staying actions against U.S. assets while the main foreign proceeding moves forward. However, as one recent case out of the Southern District of New York demonstrates, Chapter 15 carries the potential to significantly impact not only the main foreign bankruptcy, but civil litigation in the United States as well.

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Enforcement of Obligations Imposed In SEQRA Findings Statements Image

Enforcement of Obligations Imposed In SEQRA Findings Statements

Stewart E. Sterk

When, at the culmination of environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), a municipality resolves to require a developer to ameliorate environmental impacts, can anyone other than the municipality itself enforce the requirement?

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Challenges In Being a Pro Sports General Counsel Image

Challenges In Being a Pro Sports General Counsel

Phillip Bantz

Being a general counsel for a professional sports team is a coveted gig, but it's also a job with unique challenges, potential ethical minefields and scandals lurking around the front office, field, stadium and elsewhere.

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Real Property Law

NYRE Staff

Encroachment By Party Wall Will Not Support a Notice of Pendency Questions of Fact Remain In Party Wall Dispute Easement Was Only for Access Seller's Failure to Provide Estoppel Certificates Excuses Purchaser from Performing Equitable Title Claim Upheld

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Enforcement of Obligations Imposed In SEQRA Findings Statements Image

Enforcement of Obligations Imposed In SEQRA Findings Statements

Stewart E. Sterk

When, at the culmination of environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), a municipality resolves to require a developer to ameliorate environmental impacts, can anyone other than the municipality itself enforce the requirement?

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Using Section 365(n) to Minimize Loss of Use of IP In Licensor Bankruptcy Image

Using Section 365(n) to Minimize Loss of Use of IP In Licensor Bankruptcy

By Richard Assmus, Matthew Wargin, Monique Mulcare & Danielle Corn

This article provides an overview of Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code, a key provision within the Code that allows a debtor to assume, assume and assign, or reject certain executory contracts and unexpired leases.

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Fresh Filings

ELF Staff

Notable court filings in entertainment law.

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