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For Compete’s Sake! Delaware Court Declines to Enforce Sale-of-Business Restrictive Covenants

December 15, 2022 by Catherine Nagle

The Bottom Line Courts around the country subject non-competition agreements and other restrictive covenants to increasingly strict scrutiny in employment contracts.Courts applying Delaware law may also limit enforcement of restrictive covenants executed in the sale-of-business context to the Continue Reading

Alert - December 15, 2022

Ballots Continue to Come in for Legalized Sports Betting

November 12, 2020 by Patrick Quinn

The Bottom Line Maryland, South Dakota and Louisiana join 18 states plus the District of Columbia that have already implemented legalized sports betting and four others that have legalized it pending regulatory legislation, pushing sports betting to the half-way point in the United States. Continue Reading

Alert - November 12, 2020

Supreme Court Seeks to Curb the Worst Abuses of the Patent System

May 24, 2018 by Patrick Quinn

5th Edition: Trends in Marketing Communications Law Congress, commentators and a wide variety of industry leaders have long noted that the patent system was broken. Besieged by a tide of weak patents and baseless patent troll litigations, these stakeholders argued that the current patent climate Continue Reading

Trends in Marketing Communications Law - May 24, 2018

All Bets Are Off (or On): SCOTUS Strikes Down Federal Ban on Sports Betting

May 21, 2018 by Patrick Quinn

The Bottom Line The Supreme Court held 6-3 that federal law prohibiting states from enacting sports betting schemes was an unconstitutional "commandeering" of state law issues by the federal government. In striking down the prohibition, the Court paved the way for states to decide for themselves Continue Reading

Alert - May 21, 2018

Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Goes Into Effect on April 1, 2018

March 29, 2018 by Patrick Quinn

The Bottom Line With the MPWFA's April 1, 2018 effective date quickly approaching, Massachusetts employers should review and revise their handbook policies, onboarding notices and HR practices to ensure that they comply with the law’s notice obligations and requirements to provide reasonable Continue Reading

Alert - March 29, 2018

The Days of Patent Plaintiff Forum Shopping May be Over

May 23, 2017 by Catherine Nagle

The Bottom Line The Supreme Court’s decision in TC Heartland establishes that just having sold goods in the judicial district is now insufficient on its own to establish jurisdiction. Patent holders bringing suit must do so in either the judicial district where the defendant resides, or Continue Reading

Alert - May 23, 2017

Patent Troll Cases Unlikely To Drop Significantly

April 11, 2017 by Patrick Quinn

4th Edition: Trends in Marketing Communications Law The statistics are striking. "Patent trolls" (companies that do not create products or services based on their patents, but instead use patents to extort license fees) are continuing to file large numbers of patent infringement lawsuits, now Continue Reading

Trends in Marketing Communications Law - April 11, 2017

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