Articles
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June 1, 2009
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BuLITS: Business Litigation Trial Strategies
Three courts in unrelated cases recently addressed the consequences of failing to preserve electronically stored information once litigation has commenced-especially when the destruction is deliberate.
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May 19, 2009
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Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association: Bar Talk, Vol. II. Issue IV (with Mark Johnson)
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May 4, 2009
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Product Liability Law360
While many news articles about the recently enacted Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and its consequences focus on its new restrictions regarding lead and phthalates in certain items for children, the CPSIA also enacted far-ranging new provisions affecting virtually all manufacturers, distributors and retailers of consumer products.
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May 4, 2009
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On May 1, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers to immediately stop using the diet drug Hydroxycut.
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May 2009
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Antitrust Law Fundamentals
Minnesota State Bar Association
Continuing Legal Education
Joint ventures include a vast array of business combinations, from newly consolidated entities, to strategic contractual alliances, to models incorporating both integration and networking in innovative and complex ways. This article outlines the basic principles of the antitrust analysis of joint ventures.
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April 29, 2009
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APaTS: Advanced Patent Trial Strategies
After the Second Circuit's decision in Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc., trademark holders may finally be able to go after entities like Google for trademark infringement.
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April 24, 2009
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In ReliaStar Life Insurance v. EMC National Life, Slip. Op. 07-0828-cv (April 9, 2009), a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a $3.8 million award of attorney fees as a sanction for bad faith in an arbitration.
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April 23, 2009
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This article explains the general elements of a franchise and addresses the different types of costs, or even activities, that may be considered a franchise fee, giving rise to a franchise relationship governed by state or federal franchise laws.
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April 21, 2009
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Financial Services Law360, Securities Law360, & Insurance Law360 by Portfolio Media
In the wake of the current financial crisis, large multiline insurance companies find themselves defending the Directors and Officers and Errors and Omissions policies issued to financial companies and the individual directors and officers.
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April 15, 2009
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APaTS: Advanced Patent Trial Strategies
Is Larson Manufacturing Co. v. Aluminart Products Ltd. the end of what has been, for some, the classic patent game of asserting inequitable conduct?
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