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Connectu v. Facebook (and vice versa)
ConnectU is suing Facebook in Massachusetts for copyright infringement, breach of actual or implied contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, unfair business practices, intentional interference with prospective business advantage, breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing, fraud and breach of confidence. Facebook is suing ConnectU in California for business torts and unfair business practices. Read More
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| Authors Guild, Inc. v. Hathitrust | November 14, 2012 | December 7, 2012 |
| Cambridge University Press, et al v. J. Albert, et al | October 5, 2012 | November 2, 2012 |
| Is it Fair Use to make digital copies for e-reserves at a university, using the four factor analysis on an item by item basis? If so, how should the analysis be made? | ||
| Marino Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Inc. v. Issa et al | June 1, 2012 | July 2, 2012 |
 A continuing legal education company headed by Joseph Marino (inset, left), the legendary force behind a 65-year-old family-owned New York and New Jersey bar exam course, sued a former employee for alleged theft of “invaluable data” from his more recent CLE company’s business.… | ||
| ROLLING THUNDER MOTORCYCLE RALLY, WASHINGTON, D.C., INC. v. DOES et al | May 4, 2012 | June 1, 2012 |
 The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally, an annual motorcycle ride sponsored by veterans to honor their missing and fallen colleagues files a preemptive copyright infringement lawsuit in advance of the group's Memorial Day ride in Washington, D.C. to stop and enjoin alleged copyright infringers from selling unlicensed and counterfeit goods during the event.
Photo credit: Pak Gwei via Flickr | ||
| TufAmerica, Inc. v. Diamond et al | May 3, 2012 | May 15, 2012 |
| CBS Television Distribution v. Comstar Media LLC et al | April 16, 2012 | April 26, 2012 |
| Disney Enterprises Inc v. Michael Jones et al | April 26, 2012 | April 26, 2012 |
| Toma v. Motley Crue, Inc. et al | April 16, 2012 | April 17, 2012 |
| Paramount Pictures Corporation v. Puzo | February 17, 2012 | March 14, 2012 |
| Lawson et al v. Universal Studios LLC | February 22, 2012 | February 29, 2012 |
| Capitol Records, LLC v. Redigi Inc. | January 6, 2012 | February 6, 2012 |
| Is it legal to resell used mp3 files? | ||
| Nate Hoffman v. O Three Meida LLC et al | January 4, 2012 | January 5, 2012 |
| Fifty-Six Hope Road Music Limited, a Bahamian corp. v. Booker et al | December 1, 2011 | December 22, 2011 |
| UMG Recording, Inc. v. Escape Media Group, Inc. et al | November 18, 2011 | December 16, 2011 |
| Record label UMG Recording, Inc. sues Gooveshark, and a number of the company's executives, for copyright infringement, accusing the defendants of uploading roughly 100,000 recordings to the online music service, without payment or licensing use of the artists' works. | ||
| Braddock v. Jolie et al | December 2, 2011 | December 13, 2011 |
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| Rimowa GmbH v. Marvel Entertainment LLC et al | August 1, 2012 | August 27, 2012 |
| Adidas America, Inc et al v. Seven Wells, LLC | May 15, 2012 | June 22, 2012 |
| RC3, INC. v. Bieber | February 24, 2012 | March 1, 2012 |
| Aurelio's Is Pizza Franchise, Ltd v. PFC of Illinois, Inc. et al | October 20, 2011 | January 9, 2012 |
| A 52-year-old family pizza business filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against a franchisee, alleging that defendant illegally sells "frozen counterfeit pizzas at wholesale for sports teams to re-sell as fundraisers." | ||
| True Religion Apparel, Inc. et al. v. Xiaokang Lee et al. | November 15, 2011 | December 22, 2011 |
| Hester v. Neverson et al | November 15, 2011 | December 12, 2011 |
| Television personality David Hester of A&E's 'Storage Wars' reality TV show, filed a trademark lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that his "Yuuup!" moniker does not infringe upon rapper Trey Songz's purported intellectual property claims to variations of the phrase. | ||
| Adidas America, Inc et al v. Preschoolians Company et al | December 5, 2011 | December 8, 2011 |
| In-N-Out Burgers v. Pappas Restaurants, Inc, | November 15, 2011 | December 8, 2011 |
| Holiday Public Relations & Events, LLC et al v. The Edgartown Library Foundation, Inc. et al | December 2, 2011 | December 5, 2011 |
| adidas AG et al v. Wu et al | November 14, 2011 | December 1, 2011 |
| Cavern City Tours Ltd v. Hard Rock Cafe International (USA), Inc. | November 27, 2011 | November 29, 2011 |
| Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. et al v. Yang Quan Lu | November 9, 2011 | November 29, 2011 |
| Basis International Ltd. v. Research in Motion Ltd. et al | October 24, 2011 | November 23, 2011 |
| BRAVADO INTERNATIONAL GROUP MERCHANDISING SERVICES, INC. et al v. JOHN DOES 1-100 et al | October 31, 2011 | November 14, 2011 |
| Boyd v. MizzFit LLC | October 4, 2011 | November 2, 2011 |
| Case Name | Case Filed | Last Update |
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| Parallel Iron LLC v. Google Inc | March 6, 2013 | March 21, 2013 |
| The Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. | August 14, 2012 | September 17, 2012 |
| The Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. | June 14, 2012 | July 11, 2012 |
| Suffolk Technologies, LLC v. AOL Inc. et al | June 7, 2012 | June 25, 2012 |
| Google and AOL face a patent infringement by Suffolk Technologies, LLC over Internet companies' search result ‘snippets' and ad-serving technologies. Learn more... | ||
| Franchise Dynamics LLC v. Google Inc | April 19, 2012 | May 2, 2012 |
| Oldenburg v. Google Inc | March 19, 2012 | March 26, 2012 |
| United States of America v. The Google email accounts deogydog@gmail.com and cbonislawski@gmail.com | March 16, 2012 | March 16, 2012 |
| Rischar v. Google, Inc. et al | February 20, 2012 | March 15, 2012 |
| ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION | February 8, 2012 | March 5, 2012 |
| Benjamin Joffe, et al v. Google Inc. | October 17, 2011 | November 21, 2011 |
| Doctor John Doe et al v. Google Inc | November 3, 2011 | November 7, 2011 |
| The Authors Guild, Inc. et al v. Hathitrust et al | September 12, 2011 | October 6, 2011 |
| Pessano et al v. Google, Inc. | August 24, 2011 | September 21, 2011 |
| Benjamin Joffe, et al v. Google Inc. | July 29, 2011 | August 16, 2011 |
| Isys Technologies v. Google et al | June 6, 2011 | July 5, 2011 |
| A Utah company sued Google for trademark infringement, claiming that the search giant's Chromium OS infringes its trademark rights to Isys Technologies' Chromium Modular Computer. | ||
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ABA Journal Daily News
| Stealing $630K from DC firm results in 18-month sentence for former finance chief | June 19, 2013 |
A former business and finance director for a small law firm in the nation's capital was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to repay $730,000 he embezzled. Of that amount, $630,000 came from Trister Ross Schadler & Gold and another $100,000 was taken from an affilated…... more |
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| Lawyer’s snarky response to cease-and-desist letter suggests the sender is joking or ‘a big meanie’ | June 19, 2013 |
Surely the lawyer for a New Jersey township is not “a big meanie.” That’s the assertion in a pro bono lawyer’s response to a cease-and-desist letter seeking to shut down a website using the domain name westorange.info. The website, operated by a West Orange resident, has information about…... more |
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| These BigLaw firms had the highest spreads in partner compensation | June 19, 2013 |
For the first time this year, the American Lawyer has asked the nation’s 200 largest law firms to supply figures on the spread in compensation between their top-paid and lowest-paid partners. The publication received responses from 111 law firms, the American Lawyer reports. For law firms in…... more |
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| Which law firms were honored for placing women in leadership roles? | June 19, 2013 |
Forty-two law firms have received a “gold standard certification” for placing women in leadership roles. Women in Law Empowerment Forum created the list to emphasize leadership roles by women equity partners, rather than law firm policies or practices, according to the group’s website. The 42 firms met at…... more |
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| Barbershop doubles as a law office | June 19, 2013 |
Connecticut lawyer Don Howard notes that the city of Hartford is “oversaturated with lawyers and barbershops.” That’s why he has opened a barbershop on Main Street in New Britain and placed his office in the back of the place, the New Britain Herald reports. A criminal…... more |
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| NLJ 350 Law Firms Continue Expansion in China | |
Hong Kong and Beijing saw sizable increases in lawyer headcounts last year, showing that China remains a good bet for law firms. ... more |
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| N.Y. Lawyers' Pro Bono Hours, Contributions, Will be Public | |
Some attorneys are troubled by a lack of confidentiality in the reporting system, which some also see as a harbinger of mandatory pro bono. ... more |
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| Intern Litigation Spreads with Warner Music Class Action | |
The putative class action, which seeks to recover hourly wages and OT pay, is the first complaint of its kind aimed at the music industry. ... more |
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| CPUC's Top Lawyer Blasted by Staff During, and After, Keynote Speech | |
Regulators from around the U.S. were on hand as a utility watchdog GC's staff heckled him for what they saw as an attack on his legal team. ... more |
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| Debevoise Scores for Kate Spade in 'Saturday' Trademark Fight | |
A winner has finally emerged in a fight over upscale casual wear that featured claims of "swagger-jacking" and social media defacement. ... more |
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LegalTimes.com - Legal News Online from the Nation's Capital
| NLJ 350 Law Firms Continue Expansion in China | June 18, 2013 |
Hong Kong and Beijing saw sizeable increases in lawyer headcounts in this year's NLJ 350 survey, showing that China remains a good bet for law firms. ... more |
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| Judge Urges 'Different Approach' to Guantánamo Cases | June 18, 2013 |
Senior Judge Harry Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was on a panel Tuesday that unanimously rejected a Guantánamo Bay detainee's petition for release from custody. But that doesn't mean the judge liked it. ... more |
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| Lawsuits Against Standard & Poor's Coordinated in New York | June 18, 2013 |
Litigation filed by 15 states accusing Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC of misleading consumers by issuing inflated ratings on structured-finance securities prior to the 2008 recession will soon get underway in New York. ... more |
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| Historic Legal Rarities Find a New Home at Yale | June 18, 2013 |
After five years of talks, Yale Law School has acquired some important historical legal manuscripts and books from England that date as far back as the 13th century. ... more |
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| Judge: Massive Toyota Settlement Needs to Cook Longer | June 17, 2013 |
Concerns about the allocation of possible excess cash appear to have held up for now the proposed $1.6 billion settlement between Toyota and consumers asserting economic damages tied to sudden acceleration defects. ... more |
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Jurist Legal News & Research
| Hungary prosecutors charge accused Nazi with war crimes | June 18, 2013 |
[JURIST] Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged Laszlo Csatary, a 98-year-old Hungarian man, with the unlawful execution and torture of people in connection with the Holocaust. Slovakian authorities began the investigation [JURIST report] of Csatary in September after he was arrested on allegations of abusing and assisting in the deportation of thousands of Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust. The arrest came after the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) [advocacy website], a Jewish... more |
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| ICC grants Kenya VP's request to skip parts of upcoming trial | June 18, 2013 |
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Tuesday conditionally granted the request [press release] of Kenyan Vice President William Ruto [ICC materials; JURIST news archive] to be excused from parts of his upcoming trial. The Trial Chamber, however, will still require Ruto to be present for certain parts of his trial, such as for opening and closing statements and for presentations by victims. The Chamber also stated that this conditional grant is for the purpose of... more |
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| Libya senior judge assassinated outside courthouse | June 18, 2013 |
[JURIST] Senior Libyan Judge Mohammed Naguib was assassinated Sunday by an unidentified gunman outside of the courthouse in Derna. Chairman of the Court of Cassation in Green Mountain province Judge Abdel-Aziz Mustafa al-Trabelsi confirmed [LANA report; in Arabic] that his colleague was killed outright in the drive-by attack. This attack is the latest of an increasing number of threats and attacks on the judiciary in Derna, a city known to be an Islamic stronghold and which houses extremist... more |
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| UN rights expert applauds Georgia for commitment to aiding displaced persons | June 18, 2013 |
[JURIST] UN independent expert Chaloka Beyani [official profile] commended [press release] the government of Georgia Monday for its ongoing commitment to improving the living conditions of internally displaced people (IDPs) but called for the country to develop an integrated approach to address all waves of IDPs. Specifically, Beyani encouraged the government to address equal land, housing and property rights for displaced women in accordance with international standards. Beyani stated:New... more |
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| Pennsylvania top court upholds mandatory retirement age for judges | June 18, 2013 |
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania [official website] on Monday upheld [opinion, PDF] the mandatory retirement provision for judicial officers. The complaint [JURIST report], originally filed by six Pennsylvania judges, alleged that the mandatory retirement provision in the Pennsylvania Constitution [text] was in violation of the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment [text] to the US Constitution. The court, although sympathetic, held that because of the... more |
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