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Chief Justice Roberts commented in a recent dissent that the Supreme Court's sentencing rulings "have given the lower courts a good deal to digest over a relatively short period." Indeed. Since its landmark holding in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), that the Sentencing Guidelines were simply advisory, the Court has swiftly and significantly diminished the relevance of the Guidelines and increased the discretion of district court judges in sentencing defendants. As a…
This article reviews how courts assess the right to bail in cases where the defendant allegedly has inflicted massive economic harm on the public.
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Lease syndications have enjoyed a significant rise in popularity in recent years. This rise in popularity has brought about an evolution in the commonly used structures, leading to additional complexity and confusion in practice. In this article, we provide a framework for analyzing syndications and addressing the practical needs of originators and funders.
In a long-awaited opinion, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Google must face a trademark infringement lawsuit for selling keywords that trigger ads.
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The Supreme Court's growing embrace of the virtues of arbitration continued on April 1 with a 5-4 ruling endorsing labor contracts that send age discrimination claims to arbitration rather than to federal courts.
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In order to better understand the required level of care that must be taken before issuing notice letters to potential patent infringers, and the legal standard under which that care may be later judged in court, we address two recent Federal Circuit cases on this topic.
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Although the open-source movement has been active for more than a decade, it is only in recent months that such a copyright license actually has received the imprimatur of enforceability ' from an unlikely court (the Federal Circuit) construing a perhaps unlikely license (the Java Model Railroad Interface for model train software).