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Second Circuit Ruling Offers Ways to Mitigate FCPA Risk Through Corporate Structure Image

Second Circuit Ruling Offers Ways to Mitigate FCPA Risk Through Corporate Structure

Andrey Spektor

Despite the FCPA's breadth and its aggressive enforcement, it has largely escaped judicial scrutiny. Individuals and companies are reluctant to test the bounds of the law and risk federal prison or crippling penalties. But one man has refused to fall in line and has almost single-handedly shaped recent FCPA jurisprudence.

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Update On Preference and Fraudulent Transfer Litigation

Michael L. Cook

The appellate courts have been busy explaining or clarifying preference and fraudulent transfer law. Although novices may think the Bankruptcy Code (Code) is clear on its face, imaginative counsel have found gaps in the statute and generated rafts of litigation since the Code's enactment in 1979. Recent appellate decisions, summarized below, show that courts are still making new law or refining prior case law.

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Rulings on COVID-19 Defenses In Commercial Real Estate

Massimo F. D'Angelo & Gregory Wong

Despite some new variants and a possible resurgence in the fall, the pandemic closures seem to be finally coming to an end. And with it, so too have most of the COVID-19 defenses in court cases involving commercial leases. However, all may not be foreclosed for a commercial tenant, particularly where a tenant is able to point to a specific provision of its lease that could excuse its obligation to pay rent during the closure of its business.

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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Brian Wilson's Ex-Wife Wins Remand Back to State Court of Her Claim to Share of Revenues from Sale of His Song Catalog

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Eminent Domain Law

NYRE Staff

Claimants Failed to Establish That Property Would Have Been Rezoned Increased Award Proper Where Prior Regulation Might Have Constituted a Taking

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IP News

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg & Abhishek Bapna

Federal Circuit Affirms District Court's Decision That an Artificial Intelligence Software System Cannot Be Listed as an Inventor on a Patent Application Federal Circuit Affirms District Court's Partial Award of Attorney's Fees

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CRE Case Roundup

CLLS Staff

A compilation of commercial real estate rulings in courts across the country.

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Ninth Circuit Says Copyright Plaintiffs Can Reach Back More Than Three Years In Seeking Infringement Damages Image

Ninth Circuit Says Copyright Plaintiffs Can Reach Back More Than Three Years In Seeking Infringement Damages

Stan Soocher

How far back from accrual of a claim may a plaintiff reach for copyright damages?

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'Banana' Artwork Dispute Presents Slippery Slope for Copyright Image

'Banana' Artwork Dispute Presents Slippery Slope for Copyright

Robert W. Clarida & Thomas Kjellberg

In July, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida denied a motion to dismiss in Morford v. Cattelan, a decision that began by posing the question: "Can a banana taped to a wall be art?"

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Removing Restrictive Covenants

Stewart E. Sterk

In Rockwell v. Despart, the Third Department recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?

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