Let restaurant proprietors take note: In New York Pizzeria, Inc. v. Syal,[1] the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas was asked to rule on a motion to dismiss a number of claims, including, among other things, whether a restaurant had violated the Lanham Act[2] and other trademark and “trade dress” laws by copying the plating methods and distinctive flavors of a rival chain.
Posted on: October 24, 2014
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Tag: Civil Litigation / Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Torts
Posted on: October 21, 2014
Professor Omri Marian of the University of Florida's Levin College of Law has published his paper "A Conceptual Framework for the Regulation of Cryptocurrencies" (University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue, Vol. 81, 2015 Forthcoming). The paper is available for download on SSRN.
From the abstract:
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Tag: Administrative Law, Business Ethics, Commerce, Legal Theory, Technology & Law
Posted on: October 21, 2014
In Pasquarella v. 1525 William St., LLC, 120 A.D.3d 982 (N.Y. App. Div. Aug. 8, 2014), the New York Appellate Division upheld a trial court decision holding that the manager of an LLC has sufficient apparent authority to bind the LLC to contracts, regardless of whether his actions are, in fact, actually authorized.
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Tag: Agency, Alternative Business Entities, Appeals, Contracts, Limited Liability Companies
Posted on: October 21, 2014
Facebook has filed suit against a number of major law firms, including DLA Piper and Milberg LLP, that represented a party-opponent. Re/Code has the details as well as a copy of the complaint:
Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sued a handful of lawyers who represented Paul Ceglia in a 2010 case in which Ceglia claimed he was entitled to 84 percent ownership of the social network.
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Tag: Commercial Litigation, Contracts, Corporations, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics, Legal Industry, Social Media, Technology & Law, Torts
Posted on: October 19, 2014
In a recent article, attorney Nicholas Casolaro creates and analyzes a hypothetical workplace scenario in light of EEOC v. Ford Motor Company (6th Cir. Apr. 22, 2014), a case that endorsed telecommuting as a potential reasonable accommodation under the ADA.
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Tag: Labor and Employment, Technology & Law
Posted on: October 11, 2014
In July 2012, New Hampshire enacted RSA 275:70 (Non-Compete and Non-Piracy Agreements). It provided:
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Tag: Contracts, Labor and Employment, Legislation