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Circular beach towel's trademark is invalid (Kelley Drye & Warren LLP)
In the late 1980s, Clemens Franek sought and received trademark registration status for his "radical" round beach towel.
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Western District of New York upholds non-compete and grants TRO (Seyfarth Shaw LLP)
Plaintiff IDG USA, LLC (“IDG”), a Georgia company with its principal place of business in North Carolina, commenced an action against a former employee, Kevin J. Schupp (“Schupp”), a New York resident, alleging breaches of a Non-Compete Agreement, breach of a Confidentiality Agreement, unfair competition, and theft of trade secrets.
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Shutting down corporate pick-pockets (Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP)
A 10-year employee accounting manager systematically transfers amounts via ACH to her personal checking account.
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Employer wins “cat's paw” case (Foley & Lardner LLP)
On August 11, 2010, a federal court rejected a terminated employee's "cat's paw" argument.
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Massachusetts personnel records statute amended to require employers to notify employees when negative information is placed in personnel records (Goodwin Procter LLP)
Massachusetts recently enacted an economic development statute which contains an important amendment to the Massachusetts Personnel Records Statute, G.L. c. 149, § 52C.
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CON29 and the EIR - East Riding and beyond (Cobbetts LLP)
In this newsletter, we look at the on-going dispute between local authorities and property search companies relating to charging for local search information, and the application of the Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) to that.
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Fourth Circuit determines that legally objectionable behavior by counsel is not enough to overturn arbitration award (Goldberg Segalla LLP)
This appeal arises from a contract dispute concerning the construction of a wastewater treatment plant.
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Going green by building green (Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP)
Green building is a popular topic in the current construction and real estate markets, but what exactly does it mean to build green?
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Remediation certificates – creating new opportunities for redeveloping property with an environmental “past”? (Miller Thomson LLP)
In Alberta, the absence of express brownfields redevelopment legislation has meant that some owners of contaminated property concerned with unpredictable and on-going liability have resorted to simply walking away, leaving abandoned sites and literal brown fields.
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Nanotechnology: EPA seeks comments on nanoscale silver case study (Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP)
EPA has announced that it seeks public comments on a nanoscale silver case study and an approach to analyzing its risks.
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Shutting down corporate pick-pockets (Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP)
A 10-year employee accounting manager systematically transfers amounts via ACH to her personal checking account.
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Tracing claim (Wragge & Co)
Where property is obtained by fraud, equity imposes a constructive trust on the recipient so that the property is recoverable and traceable in equity.
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Corruption of government officials: gifts that keep on giving (Lang Michener LLP)
With the recent shocking findings of the Oliphant Inquiry concerning apparently "gratuitous" cash payments to former prime minister Brian Mulroney, and the current high-profile Basi/Virk trial in British Columbia regarding allegations of bribery and corruption, it is perhaps time for a short lesson in the law related to corruption of public officials.
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When the hedge fails (Day Pitney LLP)
Hedge-fund managers can become fiduciaries of their investors, opening them up to prosecution under the antifraud provisions of the federal Investment Advisers Act, 15 U.S.C. § 80b-6.
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Madoff and charities: some due diligence on the investment adviser for Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Ivy Asset Management LLC - Installment 34 (Fox Rothschild LLP)
This is the thirty-fourth in a series of Installments on this blog that discusses issues that arose in the aftermath of the Bernard L. Madoff (“Madoff”) scandal.
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DOJ issues two advance notices of proposed rulemaking under Titles II and III of the ADA (Ballard Spahr LLP)
The U.S. Department of Justice is considering regulating various categories of equipment, furniture, and Web sites under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Mass. case involving classification of franchisees raises concerns (Ballard Spahr LLP)
On March 23, 2010, in Awuah, et al. v. Coverall North America, Inc., Judge William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted the plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment finding that under state law, Coverall's Massachusetts franchisees had been misclassified as independent contractors.
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Special distressed debt tax election affects future M&A tax planning (Ballard Spahr LLP)
On August 12, 2010, the IRS released temporary regulations dealing with the special election afforded taxpayers in 2009 and 2010 to defer the inclusion of income recognized upon the reacquisition of their own distressed debt instruments.
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Third Circuit rules FCRA covers OFAC alerts; affirms punitive damage award for willful FCRA violations (Ballard Spahr LLP)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that the Fair Credit Reporting Act applies to an alert a creditor obtained from a consumer reporting agency to determine whether a credit applicant was listed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, compiled by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
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Department of Justice undertakes update to ADA regulations under Titles II and III governing public accommodations (Ballard Spahr LLP)
The U.S. Department of Justice is updating the regulations under Title II (Public Sector) and Title III (Public Accommodations) of the Americans with Disabilities Act by adopting new Final Regulations and a pair of Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRMs).
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