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Corporate Counsel

After 2 Former Execs Charged With Bribery, Will Fox Have to Disgorge World Cup Soccer Profits?

If the bribes are proven, white collar crime defense attorney Matthew Reinhard also suspects there will "be some kind of reckoning for the company as a whole, just given the value of those broadcast rights... It might have to disgorge profits from those broadcasts."
4 minute read

Law.com

Skilled in the Art: Fish Associate's First CAFC Argument Poses Extra Challenge + Goodwin Procter and MoFo's Streaming War + Gilead Saves Lives, Pays Enhanced Damages

A Fish & Richardson associate makes her first argument to the Federal Circuit, minus visual cues.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Gibson Dunn Trio Extinguish $100M Suit against Universal Music

'Plaintiffs had an ostensibly sympathetic narrative but it was based on inaccurate facts and misrepresentations about what the recording agreements actually provided,' said Gibson Dunn partner Scott Edelman.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

In the Case of the Bouncing Beach Ball, Courts Say No Insurance Coverage for Injury

A patron at Orlando's Rum Fest claimed injuries when he raised his hands to keep from being hit in the head by an oversized ball.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$100K Punitives Award Against 'Nightmare' CrossFit Gym Reversed

"The court cannot delegate to plaintiffs the ability to trigger the automatic entry or modification of an order," the opinion said. "The trial court erred in delegating this authority to plaintiffs."
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Law in the Time of Coronavirus

Law and literature both grow out of the impulse to mythologize and ritualize, which is to say they share common roots, so there's no better time to explore that connection than in the midst of the current pandemic, writes Randy D. Gordon of Barnes & Thornburg.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Jenner & Block Leads Movie Industry Attack on Internet TV Site

Columbia, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers and Universal accuse Nitro TV of running "a brazen, large-scale copyright infringement operation."
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Rakoff Tosses Fraud Suit by Fantasy Sports Players Over MLB Sign-Stealing Scandal

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said that the plaintiffs' "verbose, rhetorical, and largely conclusory complaint" had failed to make out that the league owed gamblers a duty to take additional action to prevent player misconduct.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Seyfarth Withdraws From US Soccer Defense Amid Uproar Over Court Filing

Lawyers from Seyfarth Shaw on Wednesday withdrew from representing the U.S. Soccer Federation in a pay-equity case after widespread criticism of a court filing that said players on the U.S. Women's National Team had less "skill" than their male colleagues. Latham & Watkins remains as the federation's counsel.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

With Pros and Olympics Delayed, Sports Lawyers Plot Out the Long Game for Their Practices

While some sports-related work will slow, lawyers will be called in to broker cooperation in rescheduling major athletic competitions.
6 minute read

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