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<i>En Banc</i> Ninth Circuit Overturns Injunction In Anti-Islamic Video Case Image

<i>En Banc</i> Ninth Circuit Overturns Injunction In Anti-Islamic Video Case

J. Alexander Lawrence

More than a year after a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a controversial and roundly criticized decision in <i>Garcia v. Google</i> that an actress appearing in a five-second segment of a film could use copyright law to force YouTube to remove the film from its website, the Ninth Circuit sitting <i>en banc</i> has rejected the panel's decision.

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<b><i>Practice Tip: </i></b> Fighting to Win: A General Counsel's Perspective on Retaining Outside Counsel Image

<b><i>Practice Tip: </i></b> Fighting to Win: A General Counsel's Perspective on Retaining Outside Counsel

Joseph Di Salvo

The Northern District of California is dubbed the "Food Court" for the hundreds of false-advertising, food-labeling class actions filed there in recent years, now averaging one per week. These lawsuits are brought on behalf of consumers who allege that buyers of various food and beverage products are harmed because they consume products with labels promoting specific attributes or claims such as "better for you" or "all natural."

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Measuring the ROI of Strong Information Governance Processes

Nancy Beauchemin

Information governance requires a firm-wide approach for managing and protecting client information. By taking a proactive approach and laying out the business case through the measurement of the return on investment of information governance, law firms realize significant savings, improve client service and minimize risk.

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Imposing Liability Under DMCA Counter-Notification Provision

Richard Raysman & Peter Brown

Although seemingly dry, the few cases heretofore that have confronted questions surrounding misrepresenting takedown notices have contained facts that are arguably ripped from the tabloids, including a bitter dispute between bloggers over the proper method of childbirth, and a kerfuffle arising from the wider publication of the views of a pro-straight pride organization in the U.K.

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District Court Refuses to Disrupt Employer's Hiring Decision

Sid Steinberg

Discrimination claims based upon an employer's failure to promote or hire remain among the more difficult claims for employees. Employees seeking to demonstrate discriminatory animus must demonstrate both comparable qualifications to the selected candidate and pretext in the decision-making process.

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Data Sharing in the Cloud

Gregory Mottla & L. Elise Dieterich

Storing and sharing data "in the cloud" has become, in many instances, a business necessity. The practical and economic advantages of cloud computing are clear ' it eliminates the need to send client data via traditional, costly methods, and is significantly less expensive than building and maintaining the same data storage capacity in-house.

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Collateral Descriptions and Blanket Liens

Barbara M. Goodstein

Describing the collateral for an all-assets lien intuitively might seem easy. However, getting collateral descriptions correct under the rules of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) has challenged secured lenders for decades, and all-assets liens are no exception. A look at two recent cases.

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Underground Storage Tanks

Brian Margolies

There are over a half-million underground storage tanks in the U.S. containing petroleum or other substances that are subject to federal regulation. This is in addition to the countless underground and above-ground tanks storing heating oil or other substances that are not subject to federal oversight. This article presents a regulatory overview and discusses coverage issues.

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Cooperatives & Condominiums

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The purchaser of a cooperative apartment at a non-judicial foreclosure sale faces an uphill battle to regain possession of the property from an unwilling prior owner. Here's why. Also, a look at an action by a co-op unit owner against the co-op for trespass, conversion, and breach of the covenant of quiet enjoyment.

MT Court: Companies Must Show Prejudice to Avoid Coverage Based on Late Notice Image

MT Court: Companies Must Show Prejudice to Avoid Coverage Based on Late Notice

Michael T. Sharkey

In two recent decisions, the Montana Supreme Court held that an insurance company seeking to deny coverage on the grounds of a policyholder's untimely notice must establish that it was prejudiced by the timing of notice.

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