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In This Issue: Peering Into the Future: Google Glass and the Law; Ownership of Business-Related Social Media Accounts; Two Circuits Address the First Amendment Status of Facebook Activity; Collaborative Consumption – Is It Good to Share?;...

With the deadline to select health coverage just days away, the Obama administration has given an early Christmas present to individuals whose policies were cancelled because of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”)....

Elsie Brooks reached the age of 72 and did not want the burden of managing her finances anymore. She sold her mobile home and moved in with her daughter and granddaughter in Monterey, California. Brooks’ daughter and granddaughter abandoned her and...

Midland Funding files a lot lawsuits here in Arizona. And many people I meet with make the decision to go it alone and represent themselves in their lawsuit. However one step in the collection lawsuit that makes people nervous is when the court...

Below is a recap of last week’s election law news and hot topics. The big trends this week are new initiatives that we may see in 2014 and campaign reform as the 2013 tax year comes to an end....

What’s at Stake? The panel majority held that exclusion orders under § 337 may not issue based on a theory of induced infringement where the direct infringement does not occur until after the articles are imported. The Federal Circuit also relied...

The creation of a patent system that will significantly ease an inventor’s path to gaining protection for his or her intellectual property across Europe will soon be reality....

Appellate courts do not often reverse a trial judge’s decision to grant a new trial, so we took notice when the First Circuit did so in United States v. Carpenter. Given the case history, the First Circuit decision should help to answer an important...

Russian Courts on Anti-Suit Injunctions. More than a year ago Anton Ivanov, the Chairman of the Supreme Arbitrazh Court, openly criticized foreign anti-suit injunctions affecting Russian proceedings as an example of “unfair competition” between...

Last week the story du jour in the zany world of entertainment law blogging was actor Shia LaBeouf’s foray into film-making with his short film HowardCantour.com. It is now internet gospel that Mr. LaBeouf’s film blatantly plagiarized artist Daniel...

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