Nashville Federal Court Finds Plausible Copyright Infringement Claim over "Remind Me" Phrase
Puerto Rico District Court Rules There Were Implied Licenses for Music Festival Artworks, But Were the Licenses Irrevocable?
Songwriting Income and Record Production Activity Don't Support Long-Arm Jurisdiction
- December 31, 2013Stan Soocher
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, created the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), a part of each state's Health Insurance Marketplace, where small businesses with under 50 full-time equivalent employees can purchase group health plans. The small business owner is continually being placed in an untenable position without the ability to do any planning.
December 31, 2013Lawrence L. BellOliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that "it would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations." If Holmes didn't think he could do it, which of us thinks we're up to the task? Nonetheless, this was just the challenge taken up by Judge Block of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Cohen v. G&M Realty L.P.
December 31, 2013Rachel S. FaulknerEric Glatt was in the library at Georgetown Law Center when he got the call last summer. On the other end of the line was his lawyer, Juno Turner, an associate at New York's Outten & Golden. "We won," she said. With those two words, Glatt, who holds an MBA from Case Western University and is now working toward a law degree, became the unconventional hero for unpaid interns everywhere.
December 31, 2013Claire ZillmanThis edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2014. It also looks at four recent decisions of interest from the Delaware courts.
December 31, 2013Sandra FeldmanDecember 2 was an extraordinary day for Amazon.com Inc., the mammoth online retailer: Cyber Monday sales reached new heights, its fanciful plan to use drones to make deliveries was creating buzz ' and then the U.S. Supreme Court spoiled it all by turning down Amazon's challenge to online sales taxes.
December 31, 2013Tony MauroPenthouse Owner Can't Stop Roof Garden
Co-Op Board Cannot Reallocate SharesDecember 31, 2013ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Much like laws concerning marriage and divorce, alimony laws vary among states. However, lack of predictability and consistency in alimony awards within states have put alimony reform in the forefront of political, judicial and social arenas in several states, including New Jersey, Florida and Massachusetts.
December 31, 2013Eliana BaerNY Court Won't Use 'Long Arm' to Reach Florida Med Center
Judge Went Too Far By Striking Defense's Answer
Informed Consent Irrelevant To Malpractice QuestionDecember 31, 2013ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |In Part One of this article, we looked at some of the factors courts use in determining whether to impute income to a divorcing spouse, and how much. But one of the most powerful influences on a court's decision to impute income may be its suspicion that a party simply is not being as forthcoming with the truth as he or she should be.
December 31, 2013Marcy L. Wachtel and Lori Meyer

