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  • McNair v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

    Publication Date: 2015-02-09
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    Date Filed: 2015-02-06
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Greene, Broillet & Wheeler, Bruce A. Broillet, Scott H. Carr; Esner, Chang & Boyer and Stuart B. Esner for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Loeb & Loeb, Michael L. Mallow, Laura A. Wytsma and Meredith J. Siller for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. B245475

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 1371 TODD McNAIR, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NATIONAL COLLEGIATE A

  • February 9, 2015 | New York Law Journal

    Circuits Are Split on Crime-Fraud Exception's Reach

    The attorney-client privilege is the oldest privilege of the common law and is designed to foster full and frank communications between clients and their attorneys.1 The privilege

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  • February 6, 2015 | New York Law Journal

    Circuits Are Split on Crime-Fraud Exception's Reach

    Joseph Boryshansky, Nicole Sprinzen and Stanley Woodward of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld write: Given the importance of the attorney-client privilege and the fact that many clients operate and seek advice across numerous jurisdictions, a uniform approach to the application of the crime-fraud exception would be desirable. For now, however, the variances between the circuits remain.

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  • Volpicelli v. United States

    Publication Date: 2015-01-30
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    Date Filed: 2015-01-30
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Robert Clive Jones, District Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges, and Kevin Thomas Duffy, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian P. Goldman (argued) and George G. Wolf, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California; Mark S. Davies, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Joan I. Oppenheimer (argued), Attorney; Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General; John A. Nolet, Attorney, Department of Justice, Tax Division, Washington, D.C.; Daniel G. Bogden (of counsel), United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 12-15029

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 1109 LOGAN R. VOLPICELLI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES OF

  • Ritchie Capital Management, LLC, et al., Plaintiffs v. General Electric Capital Corp., Defendant, 14 Civ. 8623

    Publication Date: 2015-01-26
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Paul Engelmayer
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    Case Number: 14 Civ. 8623

    Cite as: Ritchie Capital Management, LLC v. General Electric Capital Corp., 14 Civ. 8623, NYLJ 1202715919622, at *1 (SDNY, Decided January 13, 2015) 14 Civ. 8623p

  • January 15, 2015 | New York Law Journal

    Lanham Act Decisions; Profits and Obviousness in Patent Law

    The past two months have seen significant Lanham Act decisions addressing the evolving post-eBay standards for granting an injunction, the distinction between advertising and protected state

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  • January 14, 2015 | New York Law Journal

    Lanham Act Decisions; Profits and Obviousness in Patent Law

    In their Intellectual Property Litigation column, Lewis R. Clayton and Eric Alan Stone review recent Lanham Act decisions addressing the evolving post-eBay standards for granting an injunction, the distinction between advertising and protected statements of scientific opinion and the interplay between copyright and false endorsement law where an advertisement includes unauthorized music.

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  • Rollins v. Rollins

    Publication Date: 2015-01-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Lamar Mixson, Timothy Rigsbee, and Lisa Strauss Bondurant, Mixson Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John Dalton, Alan Bakowski, James Lamberth, Katie Balthrop Troutman Sanders, Sidney Moore Summerville Moore PC, and Lynette Smith Chick-fil-A Inc., Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus: John Larkins Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins Bever LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A12A2516

    Questions of fact remained in an action for breach of and breach of fiduciary duty regarding the management of a family

  • Campion v. Old Republic Protection Company, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-12-31
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    Date Filed: 2014-12-31
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Jan M. Adler, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Susan P. Graber, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yury A. Kolesnikov (argued) and Francis A. Bottini, Jr. (briefed), Bottini & Bottini, Inc., La Jolla, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Jay N. Varon (argued), Foley & Lardner LLP, Washington, D.C.; Tammy H. Boggs (briefed), Foley & Lardner LLP, San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 12-56784

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 11 DOUGLAS J. CAMPION, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant

  • December 30, 2014 |

    Zappile v. Amex Assur. Co.

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis  Zappilev.Amex Assur. Co. 928 A.2d 251Superior Court of Pennsylvania.Richard ZAPPILE and Stephanie…

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