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  • November 14, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Right of Publicity Questions; Seeking Trademarks in Fashion Cases

    Th t of publicity gives celebrities (and sometimes their heirs) a limited ability to control the use of their name and likeness. Initially developed as an outgrowth of privacy rights, th

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  • United States v. Thornton

    Publication Date: 2009-02-11
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    Date Filed: 2009-02-03
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: Duncan, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for appellant: Fay Frances Spence, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Roanoke, Va.
    for defendant: Attorney for appellee: Jean Barrett Hudson, U.S. Attorney's Office, Charlottesville, Va.
    Case Number: 08-4251

    PUBLISHEDArgued: December 2, 2008Before KING, SHEDD, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.Reversed, vacated, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Duncan wrote the opinion, in which Judge King and J

  • Herzog Transit Services, Inc. v. United States Railroad Retirement Board

    Publication Date: 2010-10-31
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-22
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Ripple, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 09-3945

    ARGUED MAY 26, 2010Before RIPPLE, KANNE and SYKES, Circuit Judges.Herzog Transit Services ("Herzog") operates, under contract with Dallas Area Rapid Transit ("DART") and Fort Worth Transportatio

  • Alberty-Velez v. Corporacion De Puerto Rico Para La Difusion Publica

    Publication Date: 2001-03-22
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    Date Filed: 2001-03-16
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Lipez, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 99-2002

    APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Juan M. P�rez-Gim�nez, U.S. District Judge]Victoria Alberty-V�lez appeals from the judgment of the district court

  • Rosenau v. Unifund Corp.

    Publication Date: 2008-08-25
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    Date Filed: 2008-08-20
    Court: 3rd Cir.
    Judge: Fisher, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 07-3019

    PRECEDENTIALArgued June 30, 2008Before: RENDELL, SMITH and FISHER, Circuit Judges.OPINION OF THE COURTRichard Rosenau claims that a debt-collection letter he received from Unifund Corporat

  • January 25, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    A Fresh Look At 'Qualified' Under ADA

    Since the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act more than 20 years ago, the term "qualified individual with a disability" has become well-entrenched in the vernacular of em

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  • United States v. Poole

    Publication Date: 2008-06-24
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    Date Filed: 2008-06-20
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: Duncan, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For appellant: Michele Sartori, U.S. Attorney's Office, Greenbelt, Md.
    for defendant: For appellee: Robert Biddle, Nathans & Biddle, Baltimore.
    Case Number: 07-4220

    PUBLISHEDArgued: March 21, 2008Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.Reversed and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge Duncan wrote the opinion, in which Judge Mo

  • Lovill v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-12-24
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-22
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 13
    Judge: Gina M. Benavides, Justice
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    Case Number: NUMBERS 13-07-00529-CR & 13-07-00668-CR

    OPINIONBefore Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and BenavidesThis case involves a claim of selective prosecution based on gender. Appellant, Amber Lovill, argues that the Nueces County Dis

  • May 4, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Ethical issues involving judges who Google?

    Judges come daily to the bench with the same baggage or maybe the same idiosyncratic lenses as the rest of us. William James elegantly referred to it as being under "the total push and

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  • March 7, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Faults Mail Reading in Consensual Vehicle Search

    A state trooper violated the constitutional rights of a motorist when he read a letter he discovered after the motorist consented to a search of the vehicle, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the

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