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More Than a Recitation of Hooke's Law Needed for Patent Protection A Claim for a Chair Limits the Claim to a Chair
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Constructive Trust Does Not Require Transfer In Reliance Failure to Obtain Subdivision Approval Does Not Make Title Unmarketable Accounting Necessary When Property Is Purchased With Wrongfully Appropriated Funds,br> Church Documents Establish That Synod Did Not Wrongfully Take Local Church's Property Allegations of Fraud Insufficient to Extend Statute of Limitations on Foreclosure Action Bona Fide Purchaser Prevails Over Mortgagee of Erroneously Discharged Mortgage
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Landonwner Entitled to Nonconforming Use Status Public Trust Claim Reinstated
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Landlord & Tenant Law
Tenant Not Entitled to Recover Consequential Damages for Second Hand Smoke Tenant Failed to Establish Constructive or Actual Eviction Failure to Send Statutory Notice Subjects Apartment to Rent Stabilization Overcharge Claim Dismissed Because DHCR Had Primary Jurisdiction
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Co-ops & Condominiums
Purchaser Entitled to Return of Downpayment When Co-Op Failed to Consent
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Penn State Files Trademark Lawsuit against Sports Beer Brewing Company Can OSU Trademark the Word "The"?
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Bit Parts
Texas Court of Appeals Won't Let Former Lawyer for Matthew Knowles Use State's Anti-SLAPP Statute to Dismiss Knowles' Cross-Claims in Legal Fees Dispute
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New Developments In Och-Ziff FCPA Settlement As Brooklyn Judge Grants Victim Status to Former Investors In Restitution Claim over Lost African Mining Venture
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Former Cognizant Technology COO Settles FCPA Case In Relation to India Office Construction Project
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Court Decides Who Is the 'Prevailing Party' No Duty to Collect Rent from Subsequent Tenant
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