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British Music Industry Takes Aim at Net Song Swappers The British music industry recently announced plans to issue legal warnings to the nation's most…
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Benjamin I. Fink
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Steven A. Wagner
Despite some suggestions to the contrary, the rise of the Internet as a business tool does not portend the end of limits on personal jurisdiction. The cyber-sky is not falling. Rather, the courts are finding that the Internet merely provides another vehicle (albeit an electronic one) through which a party may purposely avail itself of the privilege of conducting business in a foreign state and thus subject itself to jurisdiction in that state. In some recent cases, the federal courts have analyzed the characteristics of this relatively new and expanding technology under the Supreme Court's existing personal jurisdiction precedent. Instead of changing the personal jurisdiction standard, which is grounded in the Constitution, the courts have applied the existing personal jurisdiction standards to Internet activities.
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Shannon P. Duffy
A Philadelphia company is suing the <i>New York Times</i> for libel by claiming that the newspaper harmed its reputation by using an image from the company's Internet site.
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Michael E. Clark
In the aftermath of Enron's collapse, attention turned to the accounting and other practices of energy companies. Numerous investigations and suits have been brought against traders and energy companies involved with supplying power to California and elsewhere during the 2000-2001 energy crisis. The government has focused on such practices as "round-trip trades," in which energy companies entered into pre-arranged transactions, lacking market risk, to inflate reported trading volumes. Federal prosecutors in California and Texas have charged individuals with causing inaccurate or fictitious trades to be reported to trade journals.
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Ira H. Raphaelson
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Jim Walden
Internal controls" have been touted for years as the cure-all for corporate ills. Why, then, are we bombarded with daily revelations of abuses crippling corporations around the globe?
Joseph F. Savage, Jr.,
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Christine Sgarlata Chung
As general counsel of a small public company, you discover that, for 2 years, a department head approved sending false invoices to customers, resulting in profits of at least $2 million. Although it stopped a year ago and is well concealed, the practice was intentional, and a half-dozen current employees were involved. You fear that the false invoices constitute at least mail and wire fraud. Moreover, if the victims find out, they might sue. What do you do?
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Julian S. Millstein, Edward A. Pisacreta
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Jeffrey D. Neuburger
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Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
The Internet may be destroying your most valuable asset ' whether you know it or not. Day in, day out, your reputation and brand image may be deteriorating, simply by being part of the Net's price-cutting bazaar. This depreciation occurs when online resellers aggressively promote discounts on branded products ' without the brand owner's consent or awareness. It's a problem for your company because brand image may have no meaning in a world dominated by advertisements touting the lowest prices or discount merchandise.
