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DC Lawyers Lose Their Cool; Goodbye Akin; Hello Scott Balber

Washington Wrap is a weekly roundup of Big Law hires and other Washington, D.C., legal industry news.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Metropolitan Edison Co. v. City of Reading, PICS Case No. 17-1118 (Pa. June 20, 2017) Donohue, J., Mundy, J. (concurring), Saylor, C.J. (dissenting) (26 pages).

Commonwealth court erred in finding that appellant failed to establish a claim under the utility exception to the tort claims act because, under the exception, the focus had to be on whether the injuries alleged were caused by a dangerous condition which had its source in the local agency's utility service facility. Reversed.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Anderson v. Ying et al, PICS Case No. 17-1070 (C.P. Philadelphia July 6, 2017) Shreeves-Johns, J. (13 pages).

Plaintiff failed to produce sufficient evidence that the City of Philadelphia was on constructive notice of a sidewalk defect through evidence that city employees had visited the area for purposes other than to inspect or clean the sidewalk. The court recommended affirmance of an order denying plaintiff's motion to set aside a nonsuit.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Envt'l Def. Found. v. Commonwealth, PICS Case No. 17-1119 (Pa. June 20, 2017) Donohue, J.; Baer, J., concurring and dissenting; Saylor, C.J., dissenting. (63 pages).

Fiscal enactments diverting proceeds from sale and lease of public natural resources away from environmental conservation into the general fund violated commonwealth's obligation as trustee, since proceeds from trust assets were required to be returned to corpus of trust or dedicated to trust purposes. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cuba Is Still Open for Business, Including American Business

Under the new Trump administration regulations announced June 16, the types of U.S. businesses that will be able to operate in and with Cuba will likely be more limited than they are now thanks to the announced U.S. prohibition on doing business with the Cuban military, the purported overseer of much of Cuba's civilian businesses, writes Elizabeth Sandza.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

102 Former U.S. Attorneys Urge Wray's Confirmation

More than 100 former U.S. atttorneys, including appointees of both Republican and Democratic presidents, have thrown their support behind Christopher Wray, the King & Spalding partner whom President Donald Trump has nominated to serve as the nation's new FBI director. Sally Yates, whom Trump fired as acting U.S. attorney general last January when she refused to defend his travel ban, is one of them.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Doing Little, Trump Does Much Harm to Cuban-American Relationship

Cuban-American policy is shaped almost exclusively here in South Florida. Cuban-Americans vote in large numbers and contribute considerable sums of money to political candidates. Many Cuban-Americans also still harbor strong disdain toward that brutal communist dictator and his violent regime. The combination of generational hatred toward the Castro regime, a strong voting bloc and significant wealth all help maintain the United States' trade embargo against Cuba, writes Hugo V. Alvarez.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

iCuba: Tech and a Way Forward for US Investment in the Trump Era

Since 1962 when President John F. Kennedy proclaimed an embargo on trade between the United States and Cuba, restrictions against U.S. persons, as defined by 31 C.F.R. Section 515.329, have been in effect, with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, through the Cuban Assets Control Regulations 31 C.F.R. Section 515.101 et seq., and the Bureau of Industry and Security, through the Export Administration Regulations 15 C.F.R. Section 730.1 et seq., primarily implementing such prohibitions, write Maria Acevedo-Belt and Anaili M. Cure.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Business Opportunities: The Impact of President Trump's Cuba Policy

Most of the policy openings introduced by President Barack Obama remain in place. We still have an embassy in Havana, commercial flights and cruises to the island continue and certain American industries continue shipping products to the island country. So what changed? Basically, there were two major changes to the existing policy, writes Jorge Espinosa.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Trademark Options for US Brand Owners Following Rollback in Cuban Policies

In June, President Donald Trump unveiled his plans to scale back the U.S. policy toward Cuba, announcing that he was "cancelling the last administration's completely one-sided deal" with the country. The move has implications for trademark owners, although in many respects overall strategies shouldn't change—particularly in those situations where brand-owning companies are faced with third parties trying to hijack their valuable trademarks and other intellectual property in Cuba, writes David Friedland.
9 minute read

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