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What power does a municipality's counsel have to settle a zoning dispute on terms that would ordinarily require the exercise of discretionary authority by a zoning board of appeals (ZBA) or by a planning board? In <i>Matter of Commco, Inc. v. Amelkin</i>, which was decided more than 20 years ago, the Court of Appeals indicated that counsel had no such settlement power, even if counsel acted with the approval of the municipality's elected governing body.
As we begin a new year, many beleaguered hedge funds will reflect on 2007 and how the credit crunch affected Wall Street, corporate borrowers and hedge funds in the long run. Although nobody knows if the end of troubled times is near, we do know that a sustained recovery will take lots of know-how, cooperation and willingness to be more transparent in our dealings with one another and, perhaps, some old-fashioned work.
Karaoke Recordings/Synchronization Licenses<br>File-Sharing Suits/Attorney Fees<br>Song Infringement/Access<br>Trademarks/Record Labels
Personal Jurisdiction in Legal Fees Dispute<br>Statutory Interest on Legal Fees Owed
FILM PRODUCTION/ARBITRATION<br>RIGHTS IN BAND NAMES/LACHES
After its first two releases went gold, Miami rap-R&B upstart Pretty Ricky claims one member ' Pleasure ' broke the rules by doing what music stars like Beyonce Knowles and Justin Timberlake have done in the past: going solo. The group's Fort Lauderdale, FL-based management company Bluestar Entertainment International is suing Pleasure, whose real name is Marcus Cooper, for performing outside the group.
