Plaintiff Bridgette Marlow sued her employer The New Food Guy, Inc., d/b/a
Relish Catering, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA requires
employers to pay a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, see 29 U.S.C. § 206(a)(1)(C), plus
time and a half for overtime, see 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1). Relish paid Ms. Marlow $12 an
hour and $18 an hour for overtime. So what is the problem?

Iowa State University (ISU) grants student organizations permission to use its
trademarks if certain conditions are met. The ISU student chapter of the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML ISU) had several of its
trademark licensing requests denied because its designs included a cannabis leaf. Two
members of the student group subsequently filed this 42 U.S.

Between February 29, 2012, and March 10, 2012, Chris Gillespie used a domain name registrar to acquire 763 domain names that included the word “google.” Each of these domain names paired the word “google” with some other term identifying a specific brand, person, or product—for example, “googledisney.com,” “googlebarackobama. net,” and “googlenewtvs.com.”
4 ELLIOTT V. GOOGLE
Google, Inc. (

Nataliya Shahin, appellant, appeals the trial court’s order granting Memorial Hermann Health System’s plea to the jurisdiction which dismissed her claim for declaratory relief without prejudice. While the trial court did not specify any grounds in the order, appellee’s plea to the jurisdiction argued that appellant’s
2
claim (1) was not ripe because the statement amount was subject to char

The six cases consolidated on
appeal all involve claims related to asbestos exposure over
2 Nos. 16‐1799, 16‐2376, 16‐2377, 16‐2378, 16‐2379, 16‐2380
thirty years ago at a single Marshfield, Wisconsin plant which
produced fire doors.1 While complex on the surface, and
involving bulky appendices and appeals of separate orders,
the thrust o

On August 28, 2015, appellant was indicted in Warren County Court of
Common Pleas Case No. 15CR31283 on the following counts: one count of engaging in a
pattern of corrupt activity in violation of R.C. 2923.32(A)(1), a felony of the second degree;
eight counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle by deception in violation of R.C. 2913.02(A)(3),
felonies of the fourth degree; ten

On February 26, 2016, a Bexar County jury found that Appellant Lawrence W. Shipley III and Appellee Andrea Vasquez entered into an oral agreement and Shipley subsequently breached that agreement. The jury awarded Vasquez $216,000.00 in damages against Shipley. The trial court denied Shipley’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) and it signed the final judgment on April 18, 2016.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”)
guarantees children with disabilities a free appropriate public
education (“FAPE”). 20 U.S.C. § 1400(d)(1)(A). We
consider the interplay between the IDEA’s procedural and
substantive safeguards.
BACKGROUND
M.C. suffers from Norrie Disease, a genetic disorder that
renders him blind. He also has a host of other defi

Defendant Applied Underwriters, Inc. (Applied) purports to
appeal from the trial court’s order denying its renewed petition to
compel arbitration filed pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure
section 1008, subdivision (b).1 Because an order denying a
renewed motion or application under section 1008, subdivision (b)
is not appealable (see Tate v. Wilburn (2010) 184 Cal.App.4th
1

In the early morning of November 12, 2014, Trevonta Rusher pointed a gun
at two people. He took their phones and the wallet of one of the complainants. Based
on a description of the car in which Rusher fled, the police found the car and detained
Rusher and Appellant, the driver of the car. The police found two phones and some
money in Appellant’s pockets. The phones belonge

Sacramento, CA - Stockton Man Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison for Trafficking Counterfeit Goods

Michael Hampton, 40, of Stockton, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods. Judge Burrell also ordered Hampton to pay $282,670 in restitution to Brand Security Corporation on behalf of the trademark holders.

On January 6, 2017, Hampton plead

Atlanta, GA - Member of CD and DVD Counterfeiting Ring in Atlanta Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison

A Dakar, Senegal, man was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his involvement in a counterfeit DVD and CD ring.

Mamadou Aliou Simakha, 41, was also ordered to pay $70,894 in restitution, jointly and severally with his co-defendants, by U.S. District Judge William S. Duffey Jr. of

Los Angeles, CA - Former Wells Fargo Branch Manager Convicted of Laundering Proceeds of Trademark Scam

A former manager of a Wells Fargo branch in Glendale, California, was convicted of money laundering and false bank entry charges in connection with laundering the proceeds of a trademark scam.


After a four-day jury trial, Albert Yagubyan, 37, of Burbank, California

This dispute between two clergymen — each claiming to be the Bishop of The
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina — comes to us a second
time. Bishop Charles G. vonRosenberg initiated this action, seeking declaratory and
injunctive relief. He alleges that Bishop Mark J. Lawrence has violated the Lanham Act
by falsely advertising himself to be the Bishop of the

Rule 59(e) requires that any motion to alter or amend judgment “must be filed no later than 28 days after the entry of the judgment.” RCFC 59(e). This 28-day deadline is strictly enforced under Rule 6(b), which provides that “[t]he court must not extend the time to act under RCFC 52(b), 59(b), (d), and (e), and 60(b).” RCFC 6(b)(2); see Spengler v. United States, 128 Fed. Cl. 338, 342 (2016) (e

Curtis Branch sued Timothy Paul Hamilton, Jr. Timothy P. Hamilton and Gena C. Hamilton for breach of fiduciary duty Plaintiff, Curtis Branch, ("Mr. Branch") for his causes of action against Defendants, Timothy Paul Hamilton, Jr. ("Mr. Hamilton"), Timothy P. Hamilton, and Gena C. Hamilton (collectively "Defendants"), claiming:


Jurisdiction and Venue


1. Mr. Bran

New York, NY - Costco Ordered To Pay Tiffany $5.5 Million For Selling Fake Merchandise

Tiffany & Company sued Costco Wholesale Company on a trademark infringement theory under 15 U.S.C. 1051 claiming that Costo sold counterfeit Tiffany diamond engagement rings.

The Court ruled, before trial, that Costco willfully infringed Tiffany's trademark by selling rings bearing the luxury

Collymore received lawful permanent‐resident status in  the United States in April 1989. On December 8, 1997, Collymore  was convicted of a violation of 35 Pa. Stat. Ann. § 780‐113(a)(30)  (1997)2 in the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County,  Pennsylvania. On August 7, 2008, upon his return from a trip to  Barbados, Collymore applied for admission as a returning lawful  permanen

Maureen Cain (Plaintiff) is a resident of the Town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Sometime in 2008 or 2009, she decided to build a new house located at 29 Beach Street,
Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In 2009, to assist her on that project, she hired ACE to design the
foundation of the home. ACE is a structural engineering firm that is located in Newport, Rhode
Island. Pursuant to

This is a patent infringement action brought, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1498(a), by CANVS Corporation (CANVS or plaintiff) against the United States, acting through the Department of the Army (government or defendant). Sub section 1498(a) of Title 28 provides: Whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States is used or manufactured by or for the United States without li

Hartford, CT - Pepperidge Farm, Inc. sued Trader Joe's Company on a trademark infringement theory under 15 U.S.C. 1051 claiming that Defendant's Crispy Cookies too closely resembled its Milano brand.

Trader Joe's did not appear or answer.

The trial information and minutes of testimony allege these facts, which we accept as true for purposes of this appeal.1 The defendants, Demetrius Rimmer, Rona Murphy, and Melonicka Thomas, participated in an insurance fraud ring that staged car accidents in Chicago, Illinois. Murphy and Thomas are Illinois residents, and their vehicles were registered in Illinois. Rimmer is a Milwaukee, Wiscon

In June 2014, Off Lease filed suit against Car Factory alleging, inter alia,
violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, sections
501.201 et seq., Florida Statutes (2014) (“FDUTPA”), and seeking damages and
injunctive relief. Car Factory filed a motion for summary judgment arguing, in
relevant part, that: 1) Off Lease was not entitled to seek injunctive

A patent has a term of twenty years from the patent application’s effective filing date. 35 U.S.C. § 154(a)(2). Thus, an issued patent’s twenty-year term is measured from the filing date of the parent patent application. An issued patent’s enforceable life thus depends on the length of the PTO’s examination of a patent application. To account for any undue delays in patent examination caused b