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Shannon P. Duffy

<i>Shellenberger v. Summit Bancorp Inc</i>. is a case that illustrates how a retaliation claim can often be more powerful than the discrimination claim that preceded it. When the case went to trial, plaintiff Sally Shellenberger was pursuing two claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act ' a discrimination claim and a retaliation claim.

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FMLA Burdens of Proof: What You Need to Know

Darrell R. VanDeusen

An important and developing issue under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA or Act) is the appropriate burden of proof to be applied in assessing a plaintiff's claim. Soon after the FLMA became law in 1993, courts automatically applied the McDonnell-Douglas burden-shifting analysis in all FMLA cases, as they do when considering many other employment-related claims. After nearly 10 years, however, courts are now focusing more directly on burden shifting issues &mdash; and revising, if not clarifying, the law.

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e-Commerce Docket Sheet

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent court rulings in e-commerce.

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First Quarter E-Commerce Up From Year Ago, But Down From Fourth Quarter

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Estimated first quarter U.S. e-commerce sales totaled $11.921 billion, the Census Bureau reported in May. The amount was a 25.9% increase from last year's first quarter.

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Developments of Note

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent developments in e-commerce law and in the e-commerce industry.

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Clause Of The Month

Bryan Alter

Long-term services contracts, such as contracts for outsourcing, generally provide the customer only limited rights to terminate. Typically, the customer is permitted to terminate the contract for the vendor's uncured material breach or upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against the vendor. Even if the customer has the right to terminate for convenience, it is often conditioned on the customer's paying a substantial amount.

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High Court Hands Fox Copyright Defeat

Tony Mauro

We offer the synopsis of the decision in the story below for readers who represent Web sites and other e-commerce enterprises that use public-domain material as content to drive sales, use it to market their products and/or Web sites or even sell public-domain material. The High Court's ruling allows use of unattributed public-domain material, lifting concerns that such unattributed use is actionable under the Lanham Act, which some authors and other artists have relied on to seek relief for repeated use of unattributed material, even though such material had entered the public domain.]

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ADR: Increasingly Popular For Fixing E-Commerce Disagreements

Marie Flores

Even though e-commerce has become a norm, businesspeople and consumers buy goods and services online without considering for a second how using the Internet has brought those goods and services to people and locations that would not have enjoyed these benefits a decade ago.

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HIPAA Insight: Regulation of Sensitive Medicaland Health Information

D. Reed Freeman Jr. & Alysa N. Zeltzer

On April 14, the privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) went into effect, requiring compliance from 'health plans,' 'health care clearinghouses' and most 'health care providers' (collectively, covered entities).

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Developments of Note

By Julian S. Millstein, Edward A. Pisacreta & Jeffrey D. Neuburger

Recent developments in e-commerce law and in the e-commerce industry.

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