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  • August 1, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Prosecutor's Silence on Witness Lie Could Nix Murder Conviction

    Four people said they saw Vance Haskell burst into an Erie bar and gun down Darrell Cooley in 1994, but only one testified at trial. According to a federal appeals court, that witness lied on the stand, and the prosecutor who handled the case did nothing to address it.

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  • July 24, 2017 |

    Small Practices, Big Impacts: Meet the Lawyers Behind Two Major-League IP Cases

    Andrew Dhuey, a solo practitioner in Berkeley, California, has the kind of practice a lot of lawyers dream of. He left a Big Law job years ago but…

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  • ZL Technologies, Inc. v. Does 1-7 (Glassdoor, INC.,)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-20
    Practice Area: Internet Law | Privacy | Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Date Filed: 2017-07-19
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff and Appellant, ZL Technologies, Inc.: Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, Jasmine Kaur Singh, James M. Wagstaffe, Michael von Loewenfeldt, and Anna P. Chang.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendants and Respondents, Does 1-7: No appearance.
    Case Number: No. A143680

    Libel plaintiff must prove falsity of anonymous online statements in order to obtain disclosure of speakers' identities (Rivera, Acting P.J.)

  • TCR Sports v. WN Partner, 652044/14

    Publication Date: 2017-07-18
    Practice Area: Telecommunications | Civil Appeals
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Before: Acosta, P.J., Richter, Andrias, Kahn, Gesmer, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, appellant-respondent/respondent: Thomas J. Hall of counsel, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, and Rachel W. Thorn, Alan Levine and Caroline Pignatelli of counsel, Cooley LLP, New York. For TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, the Baltimore Orioles Baseball Club and the Baltimore Orioles Limited Partnership, appellants-respondents/respondents: Carter G. Phillips of the bar of the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC.
    for defendant: For the Baltimore Orioles Baseball Club and the Baltimore Orioles Limited Partnership, appellants-respondents/respondents: Benjamin R. Nagin, Eamon P. Joyce, Kwaku A. Akowuah and Tobias S. Loss-Eaton of counsel, Sidley Austin LLP, New York. For Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, respondent-appellant/respondent: Stephen R. Neuwirth, Sanford I. Weisburst, Julia J. Peck and Cleland B. Welton II of counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York. For the Office of Commissioner of Baseball and the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, respondents-appellants: Paul Clement of the bar of the District of Columbia, admitted pro hac vice, Erin E. Murphy of the bar of the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia, admitted pro hac vice, and Michael H. McGinley of the bar of the District of Columbia, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, John J. Buckley, Jr. of counsel, Williams & Connolly, New York, and Jonathan D. Lupkin of counsel, Lupkin and Associates, New York. For E. Leo Milonas, amicus curiae: David G. Keyko of counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York. For Diamond Dealers Club, Inc., amicus curiae: Stephen L. Ascher, Irene M. Ten Cate and Jeremy H. Ershow of counsel, Jenner Block LLP, New York. For Kenneth R. Feinberg, amicus curiae: Lawrence I. Ginsburg, Jay R. Fialkoff and Robert B. McFarlane of counsel, Moses & Singer LLP, New York. For Robert S. Smith, amicus curiae: Robert S. Smith, Robert J. Lack and Nora Bojar of counsel, Friedman Kaplan Seiler and Adelman, New York.
    Case Number: 652044/14

    Panel's Close Call on MLB-Network Dispute May Set Up Extra Legal I

  • In re TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, Petitioner-Appellant-Respondent, v. WN Partner, LLC, et al., respondents, Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-07-14
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT
    Judge: Acosta P.J., Richter, Andrias, Kahn, Gesmer, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 3595-3596

    3595-3596. In re TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, Petitioner-Appellant-Respondent, v. WN Partner, LLC, et al., respondents, Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, et al., respondents-Responde

  • July 13, 2017 | Daily Business Review

    End of the Line for the 'Monkey Selfie' Case?

    Persuading a panel of appellate judges that a monkey can hold a copyright is a tough sell.And the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit didn't seem to like the “monkey selfie” copyright case any more than Judge William Orrick III did. Not from the sound of Wednesday's oral argument in Naruto v. Slater.

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  • July 12, 2017 | The Recorder

    End of the Line for the 'Monkey Selfie' Case?

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seemed skeptical of arguments from Irell &amp Manella partner David Schwartz that a crested macaque could be an “author” within the meaning of the Copyright Act.

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  • Espejo v. The Copley Press, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-07-10
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Date Filed: 2017-07-07
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Callahan & Blaine, Daniel J. Callahan, Michael J. Sachs, Jill A. Thomas and Scott D. Nelson; Cadena Churchill and Raul Cadena for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Cooley, Steven M. Strauss, Seth A. Rafkin, Summer J. Wynn and Heather C. Meservy for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. D065397

    Newspaper improperly classified home delivery newspaper carriers as independent contractors rather than employees (McConnell, P.J.)

  • Cinema West, LLC v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2017-07-03
    Practice Area: Labor Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government | Construction | Entertainment and Leisure
    Date Filed: 2017-06-30
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peters & Peters, Mark D. Peters for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: California Department of Industrial Relations, Christopher G. Jagard, Gary J. O'Mara, Ken Lau for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. A144265

    City's involvement in construction of movie theater at new civic plaza qualified project as "public work" for purposes of prevailing wage law (Stewart, J.)

  • June 15, 2017 | National Law Journal

    These 3 IP Boutiques Still Reign at Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    Intellectual property boutiques Fish & Richardson; Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner; and Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox maintain dominant positions in America Invents Act litigation, but global Am Law 50 firms continue making inroads at the PTAB.

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