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  • Discussion of a case in which a Texas law firm filed a defamation lawsuit over an ex-client's negative Yelp review.

    August 02, 2014ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
  • In June, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court held that Aereo's streaming service ' which allowed customers to view over-the-air TV broadcasts via the Internet ' violated the broadcasters' public performance right under the Copyright Act. Applying what the dissent derided as "an improvised standard ('looks-like-cable-TV')," the majority held that Aereo infringed copyrights owned by the television networks.

    August 02, 2014Mitchell Zimmerman
  • Shouldn't we be more deliberate and questioning about the assumptions we make about clients ' in order to ensure that we don't end up with self-inflicted client relations issues?

    August 02, 2014Bruce Heintz
  • While it is not unusual for federal courts to apply the Wilton/Brillhart abstention doctrine in response to a party motion, a recent case is remarkable because not only did the district court dismiss the case on its own motion, it did so fully a year after removal, with no parallel state court action pending and after the magistrate judge had issued a 39-page report recommending that the coverage question be answered in the insurer's favor.

    August 02, 2014William P. Shelley, Jacob C. Cohn and Andrew C. Lucking
  • President Barack Obama signed into law the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act in March. This legislation is intended as a solution to extreme flood insurance rate increases caused by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012.

    August 02, 2014Cynthia C. Russomano