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New York AG issues consumer alert ahead of Super Bowl

JURIST

It is the first major sporting event New Yorkers can bet on since the state legislature legalized online sports betting last month. James warned that “[o]nline sports betting companies that fumble their advertising to mislead New Yorkers can expect to hear from my office. Legislation is also pending in five other states.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently O

The key issue on appeal is whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment for Crocs on Double Diamond Distribution and U.S.A. The Court held that “origin” in the Lanham Act refers only to the source of the physical products sold in the marketplace, not to the creator of the underlying creative content.

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I See Dead People…Filing Lawsuits In New York

The IP Law Blog

New York’s post mortem right-of-publicity statute recently came into effect. Because the statute addressed privacy concerns that dissipated at death, such rights did not extend post mortem. Because the statute addressed privacy concerns that dissipated at death, such rights did not extend post mortem.

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Supreme Court will hear arbitration agreement unconscionability case

At the Lectern

At the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, a double one, actions of note included: Supreme Court will answer Ninth Circuit questions about PG&E liability for power shutoffs. The court granted review in Ramirez v. Superior Court (2021) 70 Cal.App.5th Sports betting initiative. Employment arbitration.

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Available as of next week in Recueil des cours: Mario J. A. Oyarzábal, The Influence of Public International Law upon Private International Law in History and Theory and in the Formation and Application of the Law

Conflict of Laws

Starting with the sources stated in the Statute of the International Court of Justice, the author digs into the relevance of other international sources of private international law such as community law, human rights standards and non-legally binding norms (or soft law), party autonomy and reciprocity. General principles of law 286 4.

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Federal Circuit Approves of Order to Drop Patents from the Lawsuit to Facilitate Case Management

Patently O

In re Midwest Athletics and Sports Alliance LLC ( Fed. The district court felt that 20 patents was too many to handle and so ordered MASA to reduce the number of asserted patents to 8 patents by the summary judgment pre-trial stage; and then further drop down to only 4 asserted patents by trial. by Dennis Crouch. ” = = = =.

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MSG ACCESS INJUNCTION VACATED

NewmanFerraraLLP

After the New York County Supreme Court issued an injunction which prohibited Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. DID THESE PLAINTIFFS GET THEIR TICKETS PUNCHED? MSG) from denying legitimate ticket-holders access to its venue when attending a theatrical performance or concert, MSG appealed. ” Did the AD1 split the ticket there?