Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.
April 29, 2010Rupert M. Barkoff
In March, the Appellate Division, Third Department, reversed a Schenectady County Supreme Court dismissal of a case seeking dissolution of a same-sex civil union, which was entered into in Vermont. Here are the implications of the ruling.
April 29, 2010Janice G. InmanRecent rulings of importance to you and your practice.
April 29, 2010ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Careful attention to all the elements of economic loss, and careful discovery on damages, is essential in ensuring a fair recovery that compensates the plaintiff for what was actually lost.
April 29, 2010Chad L. StallerTwo isolated genes closely associated with breast and ovarian cancer are unpatentable, a federal judge ruled in March. This article presents an analysis of the case.
April 29, 2010Mark HamblettThere is, as yet, no consensus on whether defense counsel in medical malpractice proceedings have the right to interview plaintiffs' treating physicians through ex parte interviews to which plaintiffs and their counsel are not invited.
April 29, 2010Jamie MoncusThe U.S. Supreme Court on April 19 wrestled with the privacy expectations of public employees in a case involving workplace monitoring of text messages. By the end of arguments in City of Ontario, Calif. v. Quon, some justices, unfamiliar at first with the ins and outs of text technology, appeared better informed, but Jeffrey Quon's expectation of victory appeared to decline.
April 29, 2010Marcia CoyleThe recent decision of the Second Circuit in connection with the appeal in Tiffany (NJ) Inc. and Tiffany & Company v. eBay, Inc. represents a thorough and well-considered exploration of the basis for finding secondary liability in the electronic marketplace for those who facilitate the sale of infringing goods without ever selling the goods and, conversely, the way for the maker of the marketplace to avoid liability for infringements by those who sell on its site.
April 29, 2010Roberta Jacobs-Meadway