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In 1946, Congress enacted the Lanham Act in order to govern the use of trademarks.Among its stated aims was the regulation of "commerce within the control of Congress by making actionable the deceptive and misleading use of marks in such commerce," [5] and provision was made for civil enforcement actions to be available for private parties in the federal courts.
On February 18, 2011 [11] the judge granted the parties' stipulation to dismiss Facebook's DMCA claim, copyright and trademark infringement claims, and claims for violations of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200. Only three claims remained for the final order - the violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, violation of the CFAA and ...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), is a landmark [2] [3] [4] United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court upheld Congress's power to enact most provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly called Obamacare, [5] [6] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), including a requirement for most ...
In 2012, World Programming's forum non conveniens argument that the ongoing British court case was available, adequate, and more convenient than relitigating the claims in American courts was rejected on appeal by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit because in the United States, plaintiffs are presumed to prefer litigation in their ...
Facebook recently paid 1.4 million Illinois residents $397 in 2022 as part of a class action lawsuit for facial recognition breaches through its “Tag Suggestions” feature, per CNBC.
The termination act provided that all state laws would apply to the tribe as if they were non-Indians. [11] In 1975, the Catawbas incorporated under South Carolina law as a non-profit. [12] By the time of the lawsuit, the town of Rock Hill, South Carolina had developed within the former 144,000-acre tract. [13]
That model abides by Fair Labor Standards Act’s rules for nonprofits, Cook said. According to the lawsuit, the department is required to pay employees overtime. Lawsuit alleges lack of overtime pay
Comcast claimed that the lawsuit was "an ordinary business grievance masquerading as a racial discrimination claim". [4] Around the time of this filing, Comcast was in the midst of trying to acquire Time Warner, and Time Warner had been named in Allen's suit, [3] but by April 2015, Comcast called off its acquisition.