Business
[06/11] Rude traveling salespeople evicted from Minn. hotel
[07/02] Fugitive hedge-fund swindler surrenders in Mass.
[06/30] Oil is making millionaires in North Dakota
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[07/03] Death penalty possible in Vermont sex-kidnap
[07/03] Hedge fund scammer tells NY judge he tried suicide
[07/03] Brinkley says husband's affair shattered her world
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Government Contracts

[07/02] City of Geneseo v. Utilities Plus
In an action to recover damages from corporate defendant based on claims of contractual breach, unjust enrichment, promissory estoppel, and fraud, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) defendant's president was found to lack actual authority to enter a binding contract on the company's behalf; 2) the doctrine of apparent authority, which was limited under state laws, did not alternatively create a contract to be enforced; and 3) plaintiff had no basis to recover damages under alternative principles of contractual remedies.
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Intellectual Property

[06/30] Greenberg v. Nat'l Geographic Society
In a lawsuit filed against National Geographic and Mindscape alleging plaintiff's copyrights were infringed by defendants' CD-ROM collection of the monthly magazine which included his photographs, the circuit court finds that: 1) publisher-defendant is privileged to reproduce and distribute digital CD-ROMs of the magazine under the "revision" prong of section 201(c) of the Copyright Act; and 2) despite reproductions in a different medium or enhanced digital search functions, the publisher's privilege continues as long as the original context of a collective work is not destroyed.
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Labor & Employment Law

[07/03] Crowley Marine Servs. Inc. v. Maritrans Inc.
In an action arising out of the collision of plaintiff's tug boat with defendants' oil tanker, a district court's reallocation of fault in the matter is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not err in considering the coordinated nature of the tug escort, the tug boat's violations of Rules 5 and 17(b), or the negligence of both plaintiff and the tug's captain; and 2) it did not err in apportioning 70% of the responsibility for the collision to the tug boat.
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