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Interest on Loan Tolled When Mortgagee Delayed In Filing Request for Judicial Intervention<br>Court Dismisses Tortious Interference Claim By Holder of First Refusal<br>Easement Enforceable Despite City Register's Failure to Index the Easement Against Newly Created Lot
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Landlord & Tenant
Liquidated Damages Provision Not an Unenforceable Penalty<br>Occupant Established Succession Right Despite Absence of Sexual or Blood Relationship<br>Rent Stabilization Provision Lost When Tenant Executed Lease In Corporate Name<br>Predecessor Landlord Waived Prohibition on Subleases and Assignments
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'Breaking News:' U.S. Supreme Court Buys Into Sports Betting in NJ and Beyond
The justices in <i>Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association</i> found the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act infringed on state sovereignty. The decision could transform sports and sports gambling from coast to coast.
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Georgia Gov. Deals a Blow to Controversial Cybersecurity Bill
Gov. Nathan Deal opted to veto a cybersecurity bill criticized by technology groups that would have made “unauthorized computer access” a crime.
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NY High Court Sees Right of Publicity Claim in Avatars but Rules Against Celebrity Plaintiffs
<i><b>Legislature Considers Publicity Law Update</b></i><p>Ruling in a matter of first impression, New York's high court dismissed suits filed by Lindsay Lohan and the daughter of ex-mobster Sammy “The Bull” Gravano against the makers of Grand Theft Auto V, by disagreeing with the plaintiff's claims that characters in the game were intended to be their look-alikes.
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Indiana Supreme Court to Decide Fantasy Sports Publicity Rights Issue
The Supreme Court of Indiana accepted a certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit involving the interpretation of the state's right-of-publicity statute.
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Are U.S. Records Retention Requirements on a Collision Course with the GDPR's 'Right to Erasure?'
U.S. laws require companies to retain records for years, and sometimes forever, and violating U.S. records retention laws can result in domestic fines and penalties. How can U.S. companies comply with the GDPR's “right to erasure” while still fulfilling their U.S. records retention obligations?
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Why Second Circuit Found No Fair Use in 'TVEyes' Case
Only a small fraction of television news broadcasts are made available online. For a party to monitor and view all news coverage of an event, it would essentially have to watch and record all news broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That's exactly what media-monitoring service TVEyes did. Fox News filed suit against TVEyes, claiming copyright infringement of 19 of its hour-long programs and alleging that TVEyes would divert Fox News's viewership and its ability to license its news clips to third parties.
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False Claims and Private Equity: The Government's Increasing Focus on Private Equity Firms in False Claims Act Cases
The health care industry continues to hold great potential for private equity (PE) firms, but it also carries with it significant risks and potential exposure to liability. As the pressure to find opportunities has increased, there appears to be a greater appetite for riskier investments including into portfolio companies that experienced or are experiencing compliance challenges.
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Preserved Farmland Really Is for Farming
The Appellate Division, Second Department, recently decided <i>Long Island Pine Barrens Society, Inc. v. Suffolk County Legislature,</i> an important case that pitted the interests of farmers and conservationists against a local advocacy group focused on open space and water quality.
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