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Another Kind Of Room With A View
February 28, 2006
Ramping up for document-review is a challenging prospect, requiring a firm to react quickly and aggressively, depending on the requirements of the case. The timeline for reviews can be extremely long, requiring attorneys to spend months sifting through information or very short, at times requiring firms to use contract attorneys to scale up to several times their original staffs' size to meet deadlines. <br>Vendors are offering off-site document-review rooms (DRRs) more frequently for customers who see the value these resources provide, and the DRR market is expanding.
Arbitration Update
February 28, 2006
Recent cases on the enforcement and requirement of arbitration disputes.
Bit Parts
February 28, 2006
Motion Pictures/DefamationThe U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut found that the 1970 film "A Man Called Horse" didn't defame the plaintiff,…
Calif. Justices Consider Words Of TV Writers
February 28, 2006
The justices of the California Supreme Court recently seemed inclined to keep their fingers out of the creative process that helped breathe life into the characters on the TV sitcom "Friends." The court had been asked to rule whether the show writers' sexually crude comments and simulations while hashing out TV scripts could constitute sexual harassment serious enough to cause a hostile work environment, especially for women and minorities.
Clause & Effect
February 28, 2006
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the owner of an interest in a song failed to show that he reasonably relied on an alleged materially false representation regarding the transfer of his interest in the song ' and thus failed to establish his fraud claim.
<b>Decision of Note:</b> Station Cleared In Fan Death Over Spears Interview
February 28, 2006
The New York Appellate Division, Third Department, ordered summary dismissal of a suit over a fan who died after chasing a Britney Spears impersonator outside a radio station.
Courthouse Steps
February 28, 2006
Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Cameo Clips
February 28, 2006
Recent cases in entertainment law.
Counsel Concerns
February 28, 2006
Lawyer's Conduct Leads to Reduction In Services Award <br>
Tennessee Appeals Court Affirms Rights Of Hank Williams' Heirs to Radio Concerts
February 28, 2006
Courts have broadly interpreted in favor of record companies the language in agreements with artists that states the label will be able to reproduce the artist's recordings "by any method now or hereafter known." But the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, at Nashville, decided that neither the record company to which the late country legend Hank Williams had signed, nor a company that obtained rights in the physical masters of Williams' 1950s radio performances had the right to exploit those recordings.

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