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Patent Poetry: Do AI content generators violate underlying IP rights?

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Getty Images recently announced that it had commenced legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London against Stability AI. Getty claims Stability infringed its intellectual property (IP) rights, including copyright,...more

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Minority Shareholders can “Follow the Money” Linked To Alleged Diversions by Majority for Phantom Salaries and Benefits

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The minority shareholders of a podiatry practice felt like they had been kicked around by the alleged financial misadventures of two colleagues who together controlled an 80 percent interest....more

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Investment Management Update - January 2020

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In this issue, we summarize regulatory, litigation and industry developments from October 2019 to early January 2020 impacting the investment management sector, including SEC action on use of derivatives by registered...more

Carlton Fields

Dismissal of Individual Claims Cap Insurer’s Winning Streak in Action Challenging FIA Product Features

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In May, the Southern District of California handed ING a win in a case involving allegations that the company targeted seniors with annuities that hid an embedded derivative structure that made them worth less than promised....more

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First Department Confirms Hedge Funds Did Not Act in Bad Faith and Affirms Multi-Million Dollar Judgment Against CDS Counterpart

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In Good Hill Master Fund L.P. v. Deutsche Bank AG, No. 600858/10-2188B, 2017 BL 19363 (App. Div. 1st Dep’t Jan. 24, 2017), the First Department unanimously affirmed a judgment entered in the Commercial Division of over $90...more

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Commercial Division Trial to Address Collateral Call and Dispute Resolution Provisions of ISDA Agreements

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In a case with potentially broad implications for participants in the leveraged loan and derivatives markets, Justice Eileen Bransten will conduct a bench trial starting next week in the long-running dispute between a...more

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Recent Insurer Victories in Indexed Annuity Class Actions

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Recent federal court decisions effectively terminated two class action lawsuits challenging indexed annuity sales, seemingly ending an extended wave of class litigation in the federal courts against multiple insurers...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

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Agencies Issue Proposal on Method to Adjust Threshold for Exempting Small Loans from Special Appraisal Requirements - On July 22, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Reserve Board and the Office...more

Perkins Coie

Bitcoin Week in Review 09.12.15 – 09.18.15

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Below is a summary of some of the significant legal and regulatory actions that occurred over the past week. This alert is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all such developments, but rather a selection of...more

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When $16.5 Million Is Not Enough: Insurer And Reinsurer Battle Over Fronting Arrangement

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Lincoln General Insurance Company (“Lincoln”) appealed a district court judgment, despite it having won a $16.5 million dollar tortious interference verdict, to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Lincoln alleged that the...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Applying Delaware’s Direct vs. Derivative Analysis to Contract Claims

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In NAF Holdings, LLC v. Li & Fung (Trading) Limited, 2014 WL 6462825 (2d Cir. Nov. 19, 2014), the Second Circuit considered, but did not decide, whether the usual direct/derivative analysis governing minority stockholder...more

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