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May 14, 2024
Bankruptcy Courts Have Contempt Power, Del. Case Reminds
A Delaware bankruptcy court recently held Camshaft Capital and its principal in contempt, serving as a reminder to bankruptcy practitioners and anyone else that appears before a bankruptcy judge that there are serious consequences for failing to comply with court orders, say Daniel Lowenthal and Kimberly Black at Patterson Belknap.
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May 13, 2024
11th Circ. Says Class Attys Self-Dealt In $35M TCPA Settlement
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday dismissed a proposed $35 million settlement of a class action alleging GoDaddy.com violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unwanted marketing texts, saying the deal may have come by through nefarious means.
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May 13, 2024
'This Is America,' Not A Copyright Case, 2nd Circ. Says
Second Circuit judges shut down an appeal from a Miami rapper who says the 2018 hit Childish Gambino song "This Is America" bit off the flow from his 2016 record "Made In America," agreeing with a New York federal judge that the less successful rapper never protected the composition of his older song with a copyright.
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May 13, 2024
Fla. Court Upholds Apt. Complex's Win In Wrongful Death Suit
The mother of an autistic 6-year-old girl who drowned in a river near her Tampa, Florida, home can't sue the apartment complex for not putting up a fence, a state appeals court ruled, saying there was nothing unusually dangerous about that waterway.
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May 13, 2024
Chancery Orders Check Of Trump-Tied SPAC Sponsor Deal
Delaware's Court of Chancery refused Monday to impose a settlement on investors behind the sponsor of the company that took former President Donald Trump's Truth Social media company public after they filed and later abandoned a suit to remove the special-purpose acquisition company's managing member.
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