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Foreclosure Crisis Presents Challenges for Lenders When Homeowners and Condo Associations Are Involved Image

Foreclosure Crisis Presents Challenges for Lenders When Homeowners and Condo Associations Are Involved

Ronald B. Cohn & Taylor Samsing

With foreclosure filings at unprecedented levels, associations are facing high assessment delinquency rates since generally when a homeowner stops paying his or her mortgage, he or she also ceases paying any assessments. A look at recent litigation.

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Case Study

Ilana Volkov & Felice Yudkin

The story of a textbook recovery in New Jersey.

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Court Restricts Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction in Stern v. Marshall

William M. Hawkins

The Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision in <i>Stern v. Marshall</i> definitively upsets a quarter-century's jurisdiction by bankruptcy courts over a large set of actions.

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Net News

Steven Salkin & Charles Toutant

Winklevoss Twins Drop Facebook Supreme Court Bid<br>Updated Minor 'Sexting' Law Moves Through NJ Legislature

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Third Circuit: Students' Off-Campus Use of MySpace Not Punishable

Shannon P. Duffy

In a pair of cutting-edge First Amendment cases, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that school officials cannot discipline students for ridiculing their principals on MySpace during their hours away from school.

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Understanding and Mitigating the Legal Risks of Cloud Computing

Bennett B. Borden & Shannon Smith

There can be significant economic efficiencies realized by moving to the cloud. However there are also potential risks involved if an entity does not adequately consider the information governance implications, especially those involving electronic discovery.

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From Dot-Com to Dot-Whatever

Janet F. Satterthwaite

The organization that governs the Domain Name System, ICANN, voted late last month to launch the new application process for an unlimited number of new top-level domains, despite lingering doubts and objections from trademark owners and others.

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Waging Trademark War Against 'i-Pirates'

John Sullivan & Michael Leonard

Trademark infringers have preyed on the fertile software marketplaces opened by companies like Apple and Google by offering apps for download under names that are identical or confusingly similar to other well-known brand names. These online trademark bandits are effectively engaging in a form of "i-piracy," whereby they attempt to profit from the goodwill associated with established trademarks by pirating those marks for use in their own knock-off apps.

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Members in Expos' When Music Act Gained Success Own Common Law Rights to Name<br>Right of Publicity and Trademark Rulings on "Dillinger Tommy Guns" in Videogames

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Music Published On Internet Ruled 'U.S. Work'

Julie Kay

A Finnish record company's claim that pop music producer Timbaland and pop star Nelly Furtado plagiarized its music was thrown out of court by a Miami, FL, federal magistrate in the Southern District of Florida.

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