Grupo Gigante S.A. de C.V. v. Dallo & Co. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit June 13, 2002, Resubmitted ; December 15, 2004, Filed No. 00-57118, No. 00-57118 Opinion  [***1259]   [*1091]  KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge: This is a trademark...

Bank of Am., N.A. v. Caulkett Supreme Court of the United States March 24, 2015, Argued 1 ; June 1, 2015, Decided Nos. 13-1421, 14-163 Opinion  [*792]  Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court. 2 Section 506(d) of the Bankruptcy Code allows a...

Park Emples. & Ret. Bd. Emples. Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chi. v. Smith Court of Chancery of Delaware January 19, 2017, Submitted; April 18, 2017, Decided C.A. No. 11000-VCG Opinion MEMORANDUM OPINION GLASSCOCK, Vice Chancellor I am in the unusual...

If an employer has a contractual right to temporarily reassign customer accounts amongst a sales team after a member of the team has been absent for 4 weeks, could temporary reassignment of a sales person's customer accounts resulting in transfer...

Bd. of Supervisors v. Royal (In re Royal) United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit March 16, 2005, Argued ; May 24, 2005, Decided No. 04-1895 Opinion  [*538]  PER CURIAM: Defendants-Appellants, Claude Royal and Virginia Royal (the "Royals"...

The city diverted water from its' accustomed and natural course. The alleged consequence was that the water in the harbor was rendered so shallow as to make the owner's wharf useless. The wharf owner brought action against the city to recover...

Do you need a workplace policy concerning use of artificial intelligence (AI) driven tools? Start with Practical Guidance’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Driven Tools in the Workplace Policy (with Acknowledgment) by Proskauer attorneys Joseph O'Keefe...

The corporation executed a mortgage and note with one of the companies. The mortgage and note were then assigned to another company. After the corporation made the monthly payments required under the agreement, it sent the company a check with an accompanying...

The taxpayer was an insurance agent. The company for which the taxpayer worked provided a trip from its home office to New York City for the insurance agent and his wife. The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service assessed the value of the trip...

ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. (“Icon”) owns the '624 patent , issued October 14, 1997, and sought reexamination by the Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO"). [**2] The '624 patent claims a treadmill with a folding base, allowing...