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Decision of Note: <B>CA's USPA Covers Computer-Altered Likeness</B>
April 01, 2004
The Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, decided that claims over the use of computer-altered likenesses of the plaintiffs in children's television programming were covered by the Uniform Single Publication Act (USPA), Calif. Civ. Code Sec. 3425.1 <i>et seq.</i> Thus, the claims were barred by California's relevant two-year statute of limitations. <i>Long v. The Walt Disney Co.</i>, B164750.
Real Property Law
April 01, 2004
The latest real property law rulings you need to know.
Eminent Domain Law
April 01, 2004
The latest rulings eminent domain law.
Landlord & Tenant
April 01, 2004
The latest rulings of importance to your practice.
Index
April 01, 2004
Everything you need to find what's inside this issue.
Cooperatives & Condominiums
April 01, 2004
Recent cases of importance to your practice.
Restrictive Covenants Meet the Telecommunications Act of 1996
April 01, 2004
Congress enacted the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to encourage development of telecommunications technologies, and in particular, to facilitate growth of the wireless telephone industry. The statute's provisions on pre-emption of state and local regulation have been frequently litigated. Last month, however, the Court of Appeals, in <i>Chambers v. Old Stone Hill Road Associates (see infra<i>, p. 7) faced an issue of first impression: Can neighboring landowners invoke private restrictive covenants to prevent construction of a cellular telephone tower? The court upheld the restrictive covenants, recognizing that the federal statute was designed to reduce state and local regulation of cell phone facilities, not to alter rights created by private agreement.
Development
April 01, 2004
Recent cases of importance to your practice.
IP Litigation Quarterly, March 2004
April 01, 2004
WARN Act Reaches Equity Owners
April 01, 2004
The Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York has allowed a class of 6,500 plaintiffs to pursue their complaint against several investment companies for violations of the Workers Adjustment and Notification, or WARN, Act. In doing so, the court in In re Vogt, 2004 WL 187153, adopted and applied not the traditional piercing-the-corporate-veil test but instead the more narrowly focused and easier to establish "DOL test," based on the Department of Labor's WARN regulations. <br>This case should be of concern to all employers, not just equity investors. The nation's economy now seems to be hovering between recession and recovery.

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