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New local tax developments affect online travel companies and hotel room resellers

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

Effective September 1, 2009, resellers will become responsible for New York City’s Hotel Occupancy Tax on the net amount paid for any hotel room booked by a "room remarketer."

Adding “.com” to a descriptive term does not create distinctiveness to support trademark registration

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2009

In In re Hotels.com, L.P., No. 08-1429 (Fed. Cir. July 23, 2009), the Federal Circuit affirmed the TTAB’s decision to refuse registration of the service mark HOTELS.COM for the services of “providing information for others about temporary lodging; travel agency services,” on the ground that the mark was a generic term for such services

Ohio Attorney General files suit against COACHE

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2008

Clark County alleging that trustees of the Central Ohio Association for Children’s Higher Education (COACHE) embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars in bingo proceeds

Consular posts discontinue use of “Application Received” visa refusal stamp

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2007

After 25 years of usage, the State Department has instructed consular posts to discontinue use of the “Application Received” refusal stamp in passports

Federal appeals court rules that county cannot collect occupancy taxes from online travel companies

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2009

On January 14, 2009, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals released Pitt County v. Hotels.com, L.P. et al

Pennsylvania high court strikes ban on gaming licensees' political contributions

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2009

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in Peter DePaul v. Pennsylvania, invalidated an absolute ban on political contributions imposed on licensees and associated individuals by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's 2004 Gaming Act

Ohio’s smoking ban finalized

  • Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 4 2007

On April 16, 2007, the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review adopted the Ohio Health Department’s proposed rules implementing Ohio’s “Smoke Free Workplace Act.”

Hospitality industry stalls, imposition of significant potential burdens related to the Americans with Disabilities Act continues unabated

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 29 2009

On January 13, 2009, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York sued five Manhattan hotels for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA

E-Verify burrows through economy: in your face

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 10 2009

Hospitality providers looking to boost sales through government contracts in which the period of performance is 120 days or more will need to comply with the complex rules of E-Verify

Update on text message promotions litigation

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 21 2008

The Georgia Supreme Court has effectively sidelined a class action law suit alleging that a sweepstakes that allows entry by text message for a fee is an illegal lottery

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