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Gaming Legal News - December 20, 2012 • Volume 5, Number 28

by Ryan M. Shannon, Patrick Sullivan, Dennis J. Whittlesey | Dickinson Wright on 12/24/2012

In This Issue: - Indian Gaming Issues To Watch In 2013 - Will The Ex Parte Young Doctrine Swallow Tribal Sovereign Immunity Whole? - Detroit Casinos’ November Revenues Decrease From Save Month Last Year: Michigan...more

Business Litigation Report -- December 2012

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 12/21/2012

In This Issue: Firm News: ..Quinn Emanuel Deutschland Named “IP Law Firm of the Year” and “Patent Law Firm of the Year” by JUVE ..Intellectual Property Trial Lawyer Amar Thakur Joins Quinn Emanuel...more

IP Update, Vol. 15, No. 11, November 2012

by Ricky Chun, Melissa Nott Davis, Jeremy T. Elman, Sungyong “David” In, Mandy H. Kim, Christopher M. Koepke, Leigh J. Martinson, Michael A. Messina, Rita Weeks, Rose S. Whelan, Bruce Yen | McDermott Will & Emery on 12/1/2012

IN THIS ISSUE: Patents - ..Is It Time to Take a New Look at Appellate Review of PTO Claim Construction? ..Limits on the Use of the Disclosure-Dedication Rule Under Doctrine of Equivalents ..Causal...more

Court Rules in UNC Football Public Records Dispute

by Brooks Pierce on 8/31/2012

North Carolina Superior Court Judge Howard Manning recently ruled on the scope of protection for documents related to the highly-publicized investigation of irregularities in the University of North Carolina football program....more

The Wheels Keep Spinning Against Lance Armstrong

by Sedgwick LLP on 8/21/2012

This time around, Lance Armstrong’s big battle is not against other cyclists in a road race; it’s with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). In June, the USADA opened an investigation into allegations that Armstrong used...more

The Fate of the Music Industry is Jeopardized by Copyright Decision -- Decision Impacts Billions of Dollars in Royalties

by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 7/24/2012

A recent decision out of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit could have lasting implications on all Copyright Royalty Board rate determinations since 2004. In the case Intercollegiate Broadcasting...more

Five Cases That Shook the World: An Entertainment Lawyer's Guide to the Copyright Pentalogy

by Heenan Blaikie LLP on 7/17/2012

Yowza. That disturbance in the force you felt on July 12, 2012 was the world of Canadian copyright law shifting slightly on its axis. The Supreme Court of Canada simultaneously released its decisions in five cases, cases...more

10 Questions About the Harassment Lawsuit Against Geno Auriemma

by Pullman & Comley, LLC on 6/13/2012

Yesterday, a security director for the NBA filed a lawsuit against USA Basketball, UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma, and the NBA. It is just that — a complaint — nothing more and nothing less. Yet it is treated...more

2011 Media Year in Review

by Sedgwick LLP on 2/8/2012

2012 is here, and in our first issue in the New Year, the Media Law Bulletin is taking a look back at some interesting legal developments of 2011: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the Digital Millennium...more