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August 26, 2004 |

Careful What You Say: Post-Divorce Badmouthing Can Scuttle Custody Rights

As any divorce lawyer knows, pitting child against parent is a tactic all too common between warring spouses who, in their vehemence, lose sight of their children's emotional welfare. But now the courts are becoming increasingly mindful of the harm that practice can inflict -- and in some cases are taking extreme measures against parents who actively foster their children's hatred for the divorcing spouse.
6 minute read
January 21, 2003 |

Battle Royal Tort Reform

Rachel Tobin [email protected] year ago, a serious debate on tort reform in Georgia would have been unthinkable. Like many other things at the Capitol, that's about to change.When the Georgia Dome was ruled by former House Speaker Thomas B. Murphy and former Gov. Roy. E. Barnes, both trial lawyers, tort reform bills were dead as soon as they were proposed.
7 minute read
August 24, 2009 |

Silly, Baseless Lawsuits

Every now and again, one encounters a lawsuit so silly on its face -- so transparently ridiculous -- it makes one wonder if the justice system fails us by allowing it to even get filed, let alone litigated, write Joel Cohen and Katherine A. Helm. Case in point: the lawsuit brought by an individual claiming to be the "love child" of the late President John F. Kennedy and actress Marilyn Monroe.
10 minute read
July 30, 2004 |

Pop-Up Advertisement Litigation Strategies

E-commerce businesses have found "pop-up" ads are even more effective than banner ads or spam because they can be sent to every Internet user, spontaneously appearing on a personal computer screen when someone accesses the Internet. Until effective regulations are imposed, civil litigation is the most viable option to stop pop-up ads from invading Internet users' privacy.
10 minute read
June 14, 2012 |

Internet Companies Go for Top-Level Domains Like '.Law'

Eight companies, but just one in the legal field, are competing to buy new top-level web domains such as ".law," ".lawyer," and ".legal," officials at the internet's domain registration body said Wednesday.
4 minute read
January 25, 2006 |

Bad Kama: Obscenity Not Protected by Constitution

Late last year, the Department of Licenses & Inspections shut a Philadelphia sex club called Kama Sutra down for zoning violations. The club was zoned for restaurant use, but was actually a meeting place for swingers, a quaint term for those couples who decide to share their affections with others in semi-public venues. It is assumed that the loyal clientele was forced to follow their collective bliss in other places, like parks and the backseats of automobiles, and for the radical ones, their bedrooms.
4 minute read
November 14, 2012 |

I Can Haz Copyright Infringement? Internet Memes and Intellectual Property Risks

Given the vast popularity of some Internet memes, it is not surprising that corporate marketers want to harness this popularity to promote commercial interests. But online memes pose a number of intellectual property-related questions for companies.
8 minute read
July 31, 2008 |

Silicon Scene

Wilson Sonsini participates in Cisco's latest $120 million buy. Plus: A roundup of deals, with the latest from Sheppard Mullin and Davis Polk.
4 minute read
February 26, 2007 |

Fast Food Lawsuits

Despite a few well-publicized lawsuits (some of which have had the effect of changing the content of some companies' food), there appears to be little basis for widespread and panic-inducing predictions of a new 'big tobacco.'
8 minute read
July 19, 2007 |

Navigating Through a Merger

Scientific Atlanta's general counsel and his in-house team survive the Cisco takeover largely intact.
7 minute read

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