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Litigation

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  Women in Porn Dispute Win Copyright – And $12.7 Million

  Twenty-two women who claim they were duped into participating in porn videos have won their case in California state court. In addition to $12.7 million in damages, a judge has awarded them copyright to the work. The...

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  An Unlikely Industry That Could Be Snared By The CCPA

  Just how wide is the reach of the California Consumer Protection Act? Could it apply to companies that only incidentally collect and process personal information in the course of operating drones? Does advanced facial recognition software mean...

  • Posted 5 days ago
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  Real Estate Is A Litigation Battleground In LA

  With its growing and increasingly visible homeless population, Los Angeles has become a seat of contention over real estate development. Some who consider it a force for gentrification and dislocation are taking their case to court. Apparently,...

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  MeToo Suit Can Proceed Against Prestigious Art Magazine, Not Alleged Perp

  A former intern and later employee of Artforum, the distinguished contemporary art magazine, accused its former publisher of persistent sexual harassment. Her claim was echoed by many employees and artists who’d come into contact with the accused,...

  • Posted 6 days ago
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  Biometrics Is Litigation Flashpoint In Illinois

  Biometric technology is just “a natural outgrowth of how humans have always told each other apart,” according to one attorney cited in this post from trade publication BiometricUpdate.com, as he casts a skeptical eye on Illinois’s Biometric...

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  Fox, Netflix Litigation Ready For Appeals Court

  In 2016 Disney’s Fox unit sued Netflix after two Fox executives jumped ship. Netflix countersued alleging that the executives’ employment contracts were unenforceable under California laws forbidding contracts that extended beyond seven years of personal service or...

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  Compliance Reboot At The Antitrust Division

  For more than a decade DOJ guidelines included an exception to the general policy that prosecutors will take into account the existence of a compliance program when deciding whether or not to charge a corporation with a...

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  Four Questions To Answer About New Privacy Regulations

  Many companies, and not just in California, as of January 1 became subject to The California Consumer Privacy Act. Those that didn’t should assume this law is almost certainly the first of a coming generation of privacy...

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  Privilege Caution When In-House Attorney Is 30(b)(6) Witness

  In the Northern District of Illinois, a court ruled that a company must produce privileged documents that an in-house attorney used to refresh her memory prior to being deposed as a 30(b)(6) witness. The key here was...

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  New Ransomware Threat: We’ll Broadcast Data You Won’t Buy Back

  Purveyors of a strain of malware called Maze Ransomware have added another term to their extortion deal. Not only will they freeze your computers if you don’t pay up, they will start publishing your data. This ploy...

  • Posted 3 weeks ago
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