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Perspectives on Blockchain and the Music Industry Image

Perspectives on Blockchain and the Music Industry

Stan Soocher

A Q&A with Entertainment Lawyer Leslie Zigel

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Analyzing the New Tenant Protections Image

Analyzing the New Tenant Protections

Mark Hakim

On June 14, 2019, New York lawmakers approved, and Governor Cuomo signed, the "Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019." The Act contains a series of laws affecting all rentals within the State of New York, making permanent New York's rent regulation laws, which proponents say will ensure that New York's tenants are protected. However, as with any legislation, especially one that seems to have been enacted hastily, there are unintended and possibly quite adverse long-term consequences.

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Real Property Law

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Cancellation of Satisfaction Denied<br>Questions About Meeting of Minds<br>Statute of Limitations Bars Foreclosure Action<br>Merger Doctrine<br>Unjust Enrichment<br>Mortgage Acceleration Revoked<br>Deed Valid When Not Intended As Security for Mortgage Debt<br>Specific Performance Denied for Failure to Show Ability to Close

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Delaware Supreme Court Theater Ruling Addresses Party's Deposition Demeanor Image

Delaware Supreme Court Theater Ruling Addresses Party's Deposition Demeanor

Jenna Greene

There are difficult depositions. Unproductive depositions. Ones where people cry or are rude or angry. And then, as the Delaware Supreme Court noted, there's Carole Shorenstein Hays. The 70-year-old Tony award-winning theater producer's behavior during her deposition prompted the Delaware Supreme Court to issue a 20-page addendum blasting her.

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Supreme Court Rules Rejection of Trademark License Does Not Rescind Rights of Licensee Image

Supreme Court Rules Rejection of Trademark License Does Not Rescind Rights of Licensee

Mark Page

Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC The question is whether a debtor's rejection of its agreement granting a license "terminates rights of the licensee that would survive the licensor's breach under applicable nonbankruptcy law."

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Supreme Court Holds Bar Against Registration of Immoral or Scandalous Marks Violates the First Amendment Image

Supreme Court Holds Bar Against Registration of Immoral or Scandalous Marks Violates the First Amendment

Peter Kidd

Iancu v. Brunetti The Supreme Court held the bar against registration of immoral or scandalous marks "collided" with well-established free speech doctrine, namely, that laws disadvantaging speech based on the views expressed thereby violate the First Amendment.

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Eminent Domain Law

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Award of Contingent Attorney's Fees

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Trustee Litigation Trend: Tuition Clawback Image

Trustee Litigation Trend: Tuition Clawback

Theresa A. Driscoll

With increasing frequency, Chapter 7 trustees are looking to insolvent parents as well as colleges and universities to avoid and recover for estate creditors payments made by insolvent debtors for the benefit of the debtors' dependents. These cases are premised on the theory that the tuition payments being made by insolvent parents for the benefit of their children are avoidable as constructively fraudulent transfers because the parents do not receive reasonably equivalent value in exchange for the payment of such tuition. Courts are divided as to whether the payment of a child's tuition provides reasonably equivalent value to the insolvent parents.

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Case on 'Coolcore' Marks Settles a 34 Year Debate Regarding Bankruptcy and IP Law Image

Case on 'Coolcore' Marks Settles a 34 Year Debate Regarding Bankruptcy and IP Law

Charles A. Cartagena-Ortiz

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in <i>Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology </i>, ruling that a trademark licensee can retain its rights under a trademark license agreement that is rejected by the licensor as an executory contract in bankruptcy.

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Civil Contempt for Discharge Injunction Violations: A New Standard That Brings the 'Old Soil' with It Image

Civil Contempt for Discharge Injunction Violations: A New Standard That Brings the 'Old Soil' with It

Stephanie Lieb & Dana Robbins

In its recent opinion in <i>Taggart v. Lorenzen,</i> the Supreme Court decided that “[a] court may hold a creditor in civil contempt for violating a discharge order if there is no fair ground of doubt as to whether the order barred the creditor's conduct.” Although this standard appears to be new, it is more than a century old and “brings the old soil” from civil contempt with it.

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