A Chapter 11 corporate debtor's monetary penalty obligation owed to the FCC, resulting from "fraud on consumers," survived the debtor's reorganization plan discharge, even when the FCC "was not a victim of the fraud," the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently held.
The SharkNinja case as well as other well-established precedents serve as powerful reminders to advertisers of certain best-practices in choosing their trademarks or evaluating whether to challenge their competitors' trademarks.
Patents can provide the broadest and strongest form of protection in the video game field. They can protect the methods and processes performed by the game software, and they can protect the hardware components of the game system, both in function and aesthetic design.
Many firms are shifting to a hybrid work model, where lawyers and staff will divide their time between in-office and outside-the-office work, making management and leadership tasks more challenging.
In light of the ever-growing ransomware threat, it is important to understand the developing legal and regulatory landscape in order to take the proper steps at the first sign of an attack, including getting the insurance company involved immediately.
The Biden Administration and the Democratic controlled Congress is rolling out a robust spending plan that will provide benefits and burdens for the defense and government contract community. This article provides a road map that will assist in providing permissibly selective benefits for the qualifying government contractors and employees.
You should be thinking about disclosure long before you even hear from a whistleblower, specifically, in terms of setting up policies and procedures governing how to handle the information flow from the investigative side of the house to the disclosure side.
The pandemic has highlighted vulnerabilities in two of the most popular forms of tenant security — guaranties and cash security deposits. This article examines the impact of the pandemic on each of those types of security and offers some suggestions for landlords going forward.
A supplier's receipt of payment under a critical vendor order does not bar the debtor or trustee from pursuing a preference claim to recover amounts paid prepetition to the vendor, according to a recent ruling from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
