With the growth in international commerce and diversity of the United States population, leasing counsel are increasingly finding themselves dealing with bilingual trials. Here is what you need to know.
June 01, 2016Javier A. Lopez and Maia Aron
Groundbreaking App Privacy Ruling
Songkick Injunction Bid Over Presales RejectedJune 01, 2016LJN StaffA San Francisco federal jury has sided with Google Inc. in its copyright clash with Silicon Valley rival Oracle Corp.
May 30, 2016Ross ToddPresident Barack Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 into law on May 11, giving companies the ability for the first time to use federal law to sue those who misappropriate their confidential information.
May 12, 2016Lisa ShuchmanFacebook Inc. was hit with a class action suit claiming the company sends spam text messages to people who get assigned cellphone numbers that used to belong to Facebook users.
May 02, 2016"Every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a 2010 tech conference. This was five years ago. Imagine what it is today.
May 01, 2016Marci Borgal ShunkUnder the Affordable Care Act, employers with 50 or more full-time, or full-time equivalent, employees are required to offer qualified health care coverage. These employers are referred to as applicable large employers (ALEs). If these ALEs fail to comply with this "employer mandate," then the employer may be faced with significant penalties. As such, employee counts and categorizations in employer organizations are critical under the ACA, and whether the employer mandate is satisfied.
May 01, 2016Jennifer S. KiesewetterWhat remedies are available to a developer who expends substantial funds in reliance on an invalidly issued permit? The Court of Appeals addressed that issue in March in Matter of Perlbinder Holdings, LLC v. Srinivasan/
May 01, 2016Stewart E. SterkThe amendments to the FRCP that took effect on Dec. 1, 2015, are already having an impact on IP litigation, especially patent troll lawsuits.
May 01, 2016Mark A. Finkelstein and Meredith L. WilliamsThe Bankruptcy Code contains relatively clear and straightforward requirements and standards regarding the eligibility of creditors to file an involuntary bankruptcy petition against a debtor, as well as when an order for relief on such petition shall be ordered by the court. If such criteria are met, do the creditors' intentions, which are not specifically referenced in this context in the statutory framework, come into play at all?
May 01, 2016Joel H. Levitin and Richard A. Stieglitz Jr.