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In a recent article examining international trademark, copyright and related issues, we started with a focus on the place humor holds as a possible defense. To understand the roots of...

​​​​​​​Citibank’s balance sheet is likely breathing a sigh of relief. A Second Circuit panel held that the bank may finally recoup nearly $500 million in funds that it inadvertently...

I thought of that story, and the unique power humor has, literally and legally, to disarm many who might otherwise complain over any number of legal issues and perceived slights. For...

On this special episode, Privacy and Information Security practice chair Alysa Hutnik chats with Shana Gillers, TransUnion's Chief Privacy Officer.

A federal appeals court panel heard arguments Wednesday in a case brought by New York health care workers with religious convictions fighting the states COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Bio Professor Richard Squire has been a member of the Fordham faculty since 2006. He publishes primarily on the subjects of corporate law and corporate bankruptcy, and he has also written articles on antitrust and securities regulation. He has twice been elected Fordham Law Schools Teacher of the Year, in 2010 and 2011. He previously taught at Harvard College, where he won the Allyn Young Award for excellence in teaching principles of economics. From 2001 to 2002 he clerked for Judge Robert D. ...

Introduction In the latest chapter of more than a decade of litigation involving efforts to recover fictitious profits paid to certain customers of Bernard Madoffs defunct brokerage firm as part of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in In re Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 976 F.3d 184 (2d Cir. 2020) (" Madoff"), that the customers did not have a defense to avoidance and recovery because they received the payments "for value....

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In the latest chapter of more than a decade of litigation involving efforts to recover fictitious profits paid to certain customers of Bernard Madoffs defunct brokerage firm as part of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in In re Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 976 F.3d 184 (2d Cir. 2020) (" Madoff"), that the customers did not have a defense to avoidance and recover...

Voters line up in front of the Yonkers Public Library in Yonkers, N.Y., on Oct. 24, 2020, the first day of early voting in the presidential election. (Mark Vergari/The Journal News via AP) MANHATTAN (CN) — While a state election law complaint proceeds in federal court, a New York political party asked a circuit panel to block new rules requiring it to pick a presidential candidate to gain ballot access.  In front of three judges for the Second Circuit, attorneys for the Serve America Movemen...