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<b><i>Looking Forward, Looking Back:</b></i> Supreme Court's <i>Rear Window</i> Ruling 20 Years Later Image

<b><i>Looking Forward, Looking Back:</b></i> Supreme Court's <i>Rear Window</i> Ruling 20 Years Later

Stan Soocher

2010 is the 20th anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that dealt with the copyright renewal-rights dilemma. The case centered on whether actor James Stewart and director Alfred Hitchcock could continue to exploit their classic-thriller movie Rear Window, which was based on the short story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich.

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Expert Testimony and the Changes to FRCP Rule 26

Bruce S. Schaeffer & Henry Chan

New federal rules will bring good sense to discovery with respect to expert witnesses. They also serve to emphasize the need to properly organize and preserve Electronically Stored Information using e-discovery experts before and during litigation or arbitration.

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League Impact on the Sports Team Bankruptcy Process

Thomas J. Salerno & Jordan A. Kroop

As more beleaguered team owners seek refuge in bankruptcy proceedings, the resulting clash of league interests with fundamental principles of bankruptcy law will result in the development of novel legal and practical solutions for financially distressed sports franchises.

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Mandatory Arbitration of GM and Chrysler Dealer Terminations

Peter R. Silverman

In 2009, Chrysler and General Motors declared bankruptcy and terminated almost 2,000 of their dealers as part of overall restructuring. The dealers turned to Congress for relief. Congress responded by passing a bill, signed into law on Dec. 16, 2009, providing for mandatory arbitration for dealers seeking reinstatement. Did it work?

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Abusive Internet Social Networking Yields Infringement

Jonathan Bick

As with domain names, social networking user names are often an extension of a person's or an organization's identity. Businesses, for example, use social networking identities to promote themselves as a source of goods and services. And the flip side of that coin is that abusive use of social networking user names allows a third party to benefit from the goodwill by-product endorsement. But here's the problem: Such abusive behavior constitutes intellectual property infringement.

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Pay Attention, Counsel!

Stanley Jaskiewicz

As students returned to school recently, many may have been looking ahead to their next day off. And today, there are so many online schools that e-commerce executives are turning the chorus of Alice Cooper's classic 1972 schoolboy anthem "School's Out" ' "School's out forever" ' into reality by turning school into another form of e-commerce.

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Plaintiff in Casino Suit Craps Out in Venue Decision

Amaris Elliott-Engel

A New Jersey resident unsuccessfully sought to keep his slip-and-fall case in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court by arguing that an Atlantic City casino's Internet advertising within Pennsylvania established the state's personal jurisdiction over alleged negligence by the casino.

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Are Your Web Site's Privacy and Terms of Use Policies Up to Snuff?

Carlos Perez-Albuerne & Christine O'Connor

In 2009, the online policies of Sears, Overstock.com and Blockbuster each came up short. Alarmingly, there was nothing atypical about the terms, conditions or disclaimers these Web sites used, or the manner in which the policies were presented to and accepted by online users. The lessons learned from these companies' troubles are that material information should be disclosed more prominently and online visitors should affirmatively accept the terms. If your company's online policies have not been re-examined in the last year, now is the time to do so.

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All That Twitters Is Not Gold

Jeffrey P. Ayres

Who remembers the practice of law before e-mail and computers? I do. In those "good old days," bar association activities, law clubs, and Martindale-Hubbell were about as adventurous as many attorneys would become when it came to social networking. Today, sites like Facebook and LinkedIn are used by lawyers of all ages, and not merely for socializing purposes.

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