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House OKs Bill Imposing 'Spyware' Fines <br>Schwarzenegger Signs California Anti-Spyware Bill <br>Maryland Anti-Spam Law Toughens Penalties
Traditional franchising is an established business technique that brings together the owner of a branded product with another. A franchisor provides a trademark or trade name and a business arrangement; a franchisee pays a royalty and often an initial fee for the right to do business under the franchisor's name and system. The contract binding the two parties is the franchise. <br>After the downturn in the Internet advertising market, Internet merchants developed the pay-for-performance e-commerce sector. Internet merchants paid a commission to affiliates who directed people to their Web sites. More sophisticated affiliate programs were set up as revenue sharing arrangements. The terms and conditions for these programs began to mimic franchise agreements.
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Recent cases of interest to the Internet law community. This month:<br>U.S. Supreme Court Mulls RIAA, Verizon Dispute <br>PA Internet Child Pornography Act Struck Down
On Sept. 14, the Republican-led House passed a bill dubbed the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2004 that aims to do just that: deter attorneys and their clients from bringing unfounded suits. The vote was 229-174 for the bill that would impose sanctions on lawyers who bring suits that are deemed unfounded.
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Times have changed. Depositions, used at trial for impeachment purposes, are now more than just dry words on a page. Increasingly, they are on videotape and the courts are happy about that. <i>Weseloh-Hurtig v. Hepker</i>, 152 F.R.D. 198, 201 (D. Kan. 1993). Should medical malpractice lawyers feel the same way? Well, it depends on whether you are the attorney taking the deposition or if you are the one whose client's deposition is being captured on video. It can be a blessing or it can be the death knell for your case. Let's look at this developing trend.
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In the previous months' newsletters, we looked at two of the three significant cases interpreting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Pub. L. No. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1936 (1996) (HIPAA). <i>Northwestern Memorial Hospital v. Ashcroft</i>, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 5724 (7th Cir. 2004), a case decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, rejected the idea that HIPAA created a new federal privilege regarding abortion medical records. In <i>South Carolina Medical Association v. Thompson</i>, 327 F.3d 346, 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 7940 (4th Cir. 2003)(cert. denied 2003 U.S. LEXIS 8010 (U.S., Nov. 3, 2003)), the Fourth Circuit held the HIPAA regulations themselves to be constitutional. The third case of note on the subject of HIPAA interpretation, which we look at this month, is <i>Law v. Zuckerman</i>, 307 F. Supp. <b>Part Three of a Three-Part Article</b>.
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Each October we devote most of our content to public relations. This month we are once again spotlighting the work of Levick Strategic Communications and…
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Recently, at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Deval Patrick, the General Counsel (GC) of the Coca-Cola Company, said: "We are not hiring law firms, we're hiring lawyers." <br>Many, many GCs say the same thing. Seriously, by now this has become cliche in the legal services market: time and time again, in-house General Counsels say they hire lawyers not law firms. So why in the world do firms spend so much time and money marketing the firms rather than the attorneys and (at most) practice groups that are the actual marketplace products?