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Alleged Broadway fraud involved bogus investors and a faked death

Truth was much, much stranger than fiction for the producers trying to mount a Broadway production based on the novel Rebecca, according to a $100 million fraud lawsuit they filed Friday.
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Inside Counsel

Dish Network settles with Cablevision and AMC, starts carrying AMC channels again

Dish has agreed to pay $700 million to Cablevision and its sister company AMC Networks to settle claims that Dish violated a 15-year programming deal with AMCs now-defunct service Voom HD.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

Chevron fraud case heads to U.S. as Ecuadorean judge orders seizure of the company’s assets

Chevron Corp.s long-running litigation against a group of Ecuadorean plaintiffs is heating up this week.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Facts & Figures: Businesses spending more on both in-house and outside counsel

From legal salary discrepancies to Douglas Arnstens sentencing, an inside look at the numbers that count
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Inside Counsel

Judge considers whether United Airlines can be blamed in World Trade Center case

Should United Airlines be held responsible for the actions of passengers on another airlines flight?
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

Starbucks appeals $14.1 million tip-pooling class action suit

Four years ago, experts noted an uptick in tip-pooling lawsuitssuits in which plaintiffs claim their employers policies of pooling tips among certain employees violate state employment laws.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Apple loses UK appeal over Samsung tablets, must run apology ads

U.S. courts havent been overly kind to Samsung Electronics Co. in its patent battle with Apple Inc., but the Korean tech company is having better luck across the pond, where a three-judge panel in Londons High Court upheld an earlier judges ruling that its tablet computers do not infringe the...
3 minute read

Inside Counsel

Dish Network executive to apologize for shoving elderly man in court

Dish Network Corp. VP of programming Carolyn Crawford turned a courtroom into a circus when she caused a scene at a New York State Supreme Court trial between Dish and Cablevision Systems Corp.
11 minute read

Inside Counsel

Malpractice suit against Greenberg Traurig thrown out

A New York judge has tossed a $10 million malpractice suit against Greenberg Traurig.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: Is poker gambling? One decision may answer that question

You may have seen the stories in The New York Times, Poker Is More a Game of Skill than of Chance, a Judge Rules or the Wall Street Journal, Poker is Not Gambling Under Federal Law. So is this right?
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