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Google Hit With Another 'Keyword' Trademark Suit
Publication Date: 2009-07-13
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The claims made in Rosetta Stone's trademark suit against Google should be all too familiar by now to the search company. In its complaint, filed last week in the Eastern District of Virginia by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Rosetta Stone alleges that Google is free-riding off of its brand, by illegally selling to third parties the right to use Rosetta Stone marks for online advertising.

June 01, 2001 | Law.com

Prevailing Claimant Can't Use Workers' Comp Findings in Title VII Case

A worker who claims sexual harassment and wins a ruling from a Workers' Compensation judge granting her benefits on the basis of a mental disability cannot later use those findings in a jury trial of her Title VII claim, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled. The judge also ruled that any mention to the jury of the hearings before the Workers' Compensation judge would have an "unduly prejudicial" effect.
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January 03, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New Twist on Municipal Redevelopment Powers

Although New Jersey's Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act may have been passed with good intentions, shortcomings in the language of the act and the possibilities it provides to municipalities to take a property owner's land without complying with federal and state constitutional mandates, render the act fundamentally flawed.
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June 23, 2008 | National Law Journal

What's Next? Lamberth Holds Meeting to Discuss Pending Gitmo Cases

The Supreme Court's ruling earlier this month in Boumediene v. Bush injected life into nearly 200 pending habeas cases and cleared the way for dozens more. The justices left it to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to shape the process, and last week, Chief U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth took the first step.
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November 29, 2006 | The Recorder

Justices Slam Nation's Patent System

In Supreme Court arguments Tuesday, it was clear nobody was happy with the Federal Circuit's three-part test.
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July 11, 2011 | National Law Journal

For Toyota, a point of venue

In a stifling hot courtroom on a recent afternoon, Los Angeles County, Calif., Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr deliberated the proper jurisdiction for billions of dollars in claims filed by the insurers of Toyota owners who alleged their vehicles suddenly accelerated out of control.
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January 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Deciding Post-Confirmation Taxes of Chapter 11 Plans

Edward A. Smith, a partner with Venable LLP, writes that while it is the narrower reading of �505(a) that represents the more prevalent view of the bankruptcy courts that have faced the issue, bankruptcy court jurisdiction over post-confirmation tax liabilities remains an open issue.
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November 03, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Mental Health Professionals in Custody Cases

Robert Z. Dobrish, a partner at Dobrish & Wrubel, writes that custody cases are extremely difficult cases to handle from a lawyer's perspective. The issues are imprecise, the law is not clear, the stakes are high, the clients have intense feelings. The legal system operates slowly.
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July 10, 2003 | Law.com

Under Pressure?

On June 2, a bitterly divided Federal Communications Commission voted along partisan lines to relax the agency's decades-old media ownership restrictions that govern how many and what type of media outlets a single entity may own. Randolph J. May warns that if the tactics employed by those who opposed the FCC's deregulatory initiative become the norm, sound agency decision-making may be the loser.
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August 05, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Security Guard Liability

Andrea M. Alonso and Kevin G. Faley, partners at Morris Duffy Alonso & Faley, write that potential liability arises for assault and battery, which may occur during the course of attempting to stop or arrest a suspected shoplifter, and for subsequent false-imprisonment claims by the detainee. Liability, in exceptional circumstances, may also arise from the failure of a security guard to protect patrons.
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