Litigation

Compliance Plans Should Reduce Risk, Not Create Liability

February 4, 2015

Tying to copy a program wholesale or cobble one together from another industry, failing to staff a program appropriately, and failing to take enforcement seriously, are among the strategies to be avoided.

8th Circuit’s Tough Stance On Class Actions

February 4, 2015

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed lower court rulings in two recent class action cases. In Powers v. […]

Responding To A Social Media Attack

February 3, 2015

When social media comment turns negative and begins to harm a business, is there anything the organization can do about? […]

SCOTUS: Trademark “Tacking” A Question For Juries

February 3, 2015

In what Baker Donselson called the Supreme Court’s “first substantive trademark opinion in a decade,” it ruled that a jury […]

FCRA Compliance Moves Up The To-do List

February 3, 2015

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is best known as the law regulating exchange of credit reports between credit bureaus […]

‘Nut Rage’ Exec Could See Three Years In Prison

February 2, 2015

South Korean prosecutors are seeking a three-year sentence for a Korean Air executive who threw a fit after being served […]

Warner Bros. Prevails In ‘Gravity’ Suit

February 2, 2015

A bestselling author failed to convince a court that the film ‘Gravity’ was based on her book of the same […]

SCOTUS Overrules Sixth Circuit In Benefits Vesting Case

February 2, 2015

The issue in M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett was whether courts “must apply ordinary rules of contract interpretation when […]

Emoji Central To Silk Road Trial

January 30, 2015

The trial of Ross W. Ulbricht, who is accused of running an online black market platform known as Silk Road, […]

‘Revenge Porn’ Target Of New K&L Gates Project

January 30, 2015

K&L Gates’ new project, the 50-attorney Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project, is targeting posters of “revenge porn,” usually spurned lovers […]

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