Real Estate & Property Law

The Federal Trade Commission at 100: Into Our Second Century
The Federal Trade Commission at 100: Into Our Second Century, 21st Annual Western Conference of the Rutgers University Center for...

Proposed Federal Trade Commission Rules for Adjudicative Proceedings
Marcia Coyle at the National Law Journal has an article posted this morning about the Federal Trade Commission?s proposing ?new rules to improve and streamline enforcement actions tried before administrative law judges? last Thursday...

Federal Trade Commission Files Amicus Brief in Ciprofloxacin "Reverse Payment" Case
The Federal Trade Commission announced last week that it recently filed an amicus brief in In re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation, currently pending in the Federal Circuit...

Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization Act of 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In a potentially significant (and for the most part positive) change for the FTC, Daniel K...

US Says China To Sign Bilateral Cooperation Deals On IP Enforcement (IP-Watch)
High-level officials from China and the United States on Tuesday reiterated their joint commitment to ?strategic cooperation? on copyright and trademark protection and enforcement, and agreed to hold further meetings of a joint intellectual property working group in the near future...

Coate & Fischer on Daubert, Game Theory, and Mergers
Malcolm B. Coate and Jeffrey H. Fischer (U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U...

Trade Secrets
Former execs are hit with doctrine of inevitable disclosure.

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Federal Adoption Tax Credit
Financial Incentive for Adoptive Parents

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

I was fired on June 3, 2002 in Massachusetts because I reported discriminatory behavior by the employer towards a particular nationality. In July I filed a discrimination/retaliation complaint against the employer with t
It seem sin your case that the fact you filed the complaint prior to being dissa...

I married American citizen 2 years ago and have conditional permanent resident status. The marriage has not gone well and my husband has left. What effect will filing for divorce have on my application to have conditions
Many visas, etc., involving spouses must be applied for by both spouses (for exa...

Mother left family property in stepfateher's name, Anyway to fight for it?
If deed is stated in step fathers name most likely it will stay that way....try ...

Trade Secrets
Razorsight agreed to pay $4.5 million settlement in infringement lawsuit.

Developer Investment
Raffaello Follieri agrees to $12 million joint venture settlement.

Joint Venture
Gallaher Group agrees to pay Reynolds American $387 million contract dispute settlement.

Newspaper Publisher
Star Tribune must pay St. Paul Pioneer Press a $3.8 million trade secrets act violations settlement.

Taylor Bean Faces Federal WARN Class Action
Taylor Bean Federal Employment Class Action Filed

Federal Government
alleging discrimination against black farmers