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|September 29, 2023Entertainment Team Represents Country Singer-Songwriter Matt Schuster in Warner Music Nashville DealNashville Partner Matt Cottingham and Associate Austin Wells recently represented country singer-songwriter Matt Schuster in his record deal with Warner Music Nashville (WMN).
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|September 29, 2023In a huge win for freight brokers, a panel of the Appellate Court of Illinois on Thursday reversed a jury verdict, including an $18,150,750 award, against a broker. The panel reached its conclusion after finding that all the evidence presented at trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, overwhelmingly favored the conclusion that a driver and motor carrier were not agents of the freight broker.
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|September 28, 2023On September 21, 2023, the Treasury Department announced that its Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) had reached a settlement with Emigrant Bank (“Emigrant”), a commercial bank located in New York, related to 30 apparent violations of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (“ITSR”) for $31,868. The announcement stated that while the “statutory maximum civil monetary penalty in the matter is $9,928,410,” the base civil monetary penalty in this case is $45,526. Because the apparent violations were non-egregious and were voluntarily self-disclosed by Emigrant, the final settlement amount was significantly reduced from even the minimum penalty.
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|September 28, 2023Wilmington Partner Rafael X. Zahralddin will join a panel at the upcoming American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Cross-Border Insolvency Program, hosted at Blank Rome LLP in New York on October 24 at 11:00 a.m. ET.
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|September 27, 2023Lewis Brisbois’ Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Partners Kamran Salour, Joshua R. Hecker, Carrie C. Turner, and Associate Sarah Estephan will present a Defense Association of New York (DANY) seminar on October 3 at 5:30 p.m. ET.
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|September 27, 2023Our New York office continues its efforts to expand the playbook for successfully defending claims brought by plaintiffs who undergo surgery following motor vehicle accidents. In many motor vehicle cases, it is very questionable whether any post-accident surgery was medically necessary, and/or causally related to the alleged impact from the accident. In New York, practitioners sometimes overlook the “serious injury” defense of NY Insurance Law § 5102(d) when it comes to claims where the plaintiff undergoes a discectomy, laminectomy or a fusion after the accident. Under NY Insurance Law § 5104(a), a plaintiff who has not sustained a “serious injury” (as defined in Insurance Law § 5102(d)) has no private cause of action for non-economic loss; rather, they must pursue No-Fault insurance as their sole remedy.
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|September 27, 2023On September 15, 2023, three Russian businessmen were removed from the European Union (EU) sanctions list following the end of an EU sanctions renewal period.
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|September 26, 2023Tampa Partners David Harvey and Jonathan Beckerman will present a keynote address on the changing legal and political landscape of DEI at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo in Orlando on October 6 at 1:45 p.m.
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|September 26, 2023The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which covers Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, recently held that employers may be required to provide accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for employees to safely commute to work.
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|September 26, 2023Newark Partners Malinda A. Miller and Paola A. Silverman, with Northwest Indiana Partner Ami T. Anderson will present a webinar titled “Defending Telehealth & Behavioral Healthcare Professionals,” on October 19, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. PT.
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|September 25, 2023Las Vegas Managing Partner Josh Cole Aicklen will join a panel on personal injury litigation, hosted by National Business Institute (NBI) on November 14 at 9:00 a.m. PT.
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|September 25, 2023Wilmington Partner Rafael X. Zahralddin recently wrote an article for Business Law Today entitled “The Emerging Indirect Expropriation Strategy under Russian Sanctions, Tax, and Bankruptcy Laws,” that explores in depth Russia’s current countersanctions regime amid the ongoing conflict with Ukraine.
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|September 22, 2023In a move aimed at undermining Russia's workarounds to evade sanctions thus far, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently imposed nearly 100 new sanctions on Russia's industrial base, financial institutions, and technology suppliers. The Department of State has also designated more than 70 individuals.
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|September 22, 2023Phoenix Partner and Chair of Lewis Brisbois' Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Practice Gregg E. Clifton and New York Associate Christina Stylianou recently penned the second installment of a two-part Law360 Expert Analysis series regarding proposed federal name, image, and likeness (NIL) legislation. The article, titled, “The NIL Legislation Race: CAEFA And Ted Cruz's Draft Bill,” details the College Athlete Economic Freedom Act (CAEFA) and Senator Ted Cruz’s fourth discussion draft of a potential NIL bill. The first installment of the two-part series discussed the College Athletes Protection and Compensation Act (CAPCA) and the Protecting Athletes, Schools, and Sports Act (PASS Act).
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|September 21, 2023Phoenix Partner Julie E. Maurer, Chair of the National Cargo & Logistics Practice and co-Chair of the Transportation Practice, and Partner Andrew Kleiner recently obtained summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on behalf of their client, an interstate moving company, when the court ruled that their client properly limited its liability to $0.60 per pound per article for damage and loss that occurred during the interstate transport of the plaintiff’s goods.
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