Herb Reed Enterprises (HRE) claimed that Larry Marshak infringed HRE's trademark rights in "The Platters", a name and mark that relate to a singing group whose hey-day spanned the second half of the 1950s.
The band split up in the 1960s. But nostalgia for "The Great Pretender", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", and "Only You"
Rupert Murdoch's TV empire in the U.S. has lost its bid to stop you from avoiding the ads that Fox embeds in its shows — your Glees, your The Simpsonses, and your So You Think You Can Dances.
The Ninth Circuit turned back Fox's appeal of an order that denied its motion to enjoin
It takes no expansion of the mind to understand how Texas's message disfavoring abortion would be garbled if health care providers participating in the [Women's Health Program] could identify and poster their clinics with abortion-related identifying marks.
Planned Parenthood Ass'n of Hidalgo County, Texas, Inc. v. Suehs, No. 12-50377, slip op. at 10 (5th
The wages of sin is death. What wages do you get from a Ponzi scheme?
The kind you can't access any more.
People who worked at Stanford Group Company found that out the hard way. Their employer, we now learn, paid them with proceeds of a Ponzi scheme. The Fifth Circuit held that funds they
Blawgletter has a thing about the passive voice. We don't like it, no sir. Not at all. You might say it is hated by us.
[See, e.g., "They Will Be Killed by Us", "The Voice That Dares Not Call Its Name", "Passive Voice Kills Another Lawsuit", "Contingent Fee
You may remember that in February 2008 the "auctions" that gave "auction-rate securities" their liquidity seized up. Lots of people who'd bought ARSs thought they could sell them about as easily as they could unload shares in money market funds. The slightly higher rate of return made the ARSs more attractive. So they believed.
The auctions