'Emoral': Third Circuit Provides Comfort to Distressed Purchasers
In her Distress Mergers and Acquisitions column, Corinne Ball, a partner at Jones Day, writes about a recent Third Circuit decision in which the court held that prepetition personal injury claims that...
View ArticleBroker's Antitrust Claims Against Insurer Rejected
The state's largest medical malpractice carrier can require claimants to use its structured settlement brokers rather than their own, a commercial division judge in Buffalo has held.
View ArticleEmployment Cases Include Former Basketball Coach's Claims
In her Western District Roundup, Bond, Schoeneck & King partner Sharon M. Porcellio discusses the latest in a decade-long legal battle over the NCAA's investigation into alleged recruiting and...
View ArticleCharitable Gifts of 'Virtual Currency': Bitcoins
In his Estate Planning and Philanthropy column, Conrad Teitell, a principal at Cummings & Lockwood, writes: Now that the IRS has specified the many tax ramifications of virtual currency...
View ArticleForcing Defendants to Disgorge What They Never Possessed
Wilmer Hale's Peter K. Vigeland, Douglas Davison and Chris Johnstone critique the Second Circuit's recent opinion affirming the imposition of an order that the defendant must disgorge over $7 million...
View ArticleRoundup of Recent Court Decisions on Taxes
In his Tax Tips column, Sidney Kess, of counsel at Kostelanetz & Fink, reviews decisions involving the treatment of supplemental unemployment benefits for purposes of FICA taxes, material...
View ArticleThird-Party Discovery in the Electronic Era
Evan Glassman, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, and Jeffrey A. Novack, an associate with the firm, write: With greater volumes of information available, and court sensitivity to the imposition of...
View ArticleWill Regulation Drive Bitcoins Out of Circulation?
In their International Criminal Law and Enforcement column, Nicholas M. De Feis and Philip C. Patterson of De Feis O'Connell & Rose write: Recent regulatory developments have provided greater...
View ArticleResolving Standing Conflict for False Advertising Plaintiffs
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips partner Darren W. Saunders writes: The Lanham Act has long served as a vehicle for businesses to bring civil actions for false advertising claims, but the tests to...
View ArticleSocial Media and Recent Decisions on Form, Review and Use of Emails
In his State E-Discovery column, Mark A. Berman, a partner at Ganfer & Shore, writes: Recent New York decisions are providing additional guidance as to what an attorney in a personal injury case...
View ArticleMarketplace
In a string of new leases, several investment companies will join the roster at Boston Properties, 250 W. 55th St., at Eighth Avenue. Also, media group Thomson Reuters, headquartered at 3 Times Square,...
View ArticleRelocation: Can a Woman Just Take the Child and Go?
In their Divorce Law column, Alton L. Abramowitz and Sophie Jacobi-Parisi of Mayerson Abramowitz & Kahn write that as recent opinions illustrate, there are still no easy solutions when a divorced...
View ArticleThe Reply Brief: How to Play Offense
Sole practitioner Thomas R. Villecco writes: The assumption that the court reads the briefs in chronological order is no longer a safe one. Since the reply brief has increasingly become the critical...
View ArticleOwnership of Hotel Guest Data Upon New Management
In their Hospitality Litigation column, Todd E. Soloway And Joshua D. Bernstein of Pryor Cashman write: Though often overlooked when negotiating a hotel management contract, ownership of hotel guest...
View ArticleRealty Law Digest
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law, reviews three cases with issues ranging from laches, to horizontal multiple dwellings,...
View ArticleTrend of Strong Enforcement of Settlement Agreements
In his Settlement and Compromise column, Thomas E.L. Dewey, a partner of Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky, analyzes a recent opinion that reflects the continuation of the general trend in New York federal...
View ArticleJudge Dismisses Suit Filed by Investors in Madoff Feeder Fund
Investors who put their money in a fund that invested heavily with Bernard Madoff cannot get damages from the administrator of the fund, Bank of New York Mellon, a Manhattan commercial division judge...
View ArticleMonetizing Free Speech Creates a Divide
Elba Galvan, president of the Puerto Rican Bar Association, writes: By monetizing free speech, the court creates a stratification between the voices and opinions of those who can afford to be heard and...
View Article'Grimm' Outlook for Continuing Conspiracy Prosecutions?
In his Corporate Crime column, Steven Witzel, a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, writes: If sustained, the decision in 'United States v. Grimm' may significantly limit the...
View ArticleAttorney Fees and Nominal Damages
Bruce J. Turkle, a partner at Phillips Nizer, reviews a recent decision in which the court awarded plaintiff in excess of $34,000 in attorney fees and costs despite granting him only $1 in damages,...
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