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The National Basketball Association urged the Second Circuit on Tuesday to uphold a lower court's dismissal of a proposed class action that accused the organization of unlawfully sharing personal information of its online video viewers with Facebook on the grounds the suit was seeking to improperly expand the Video Privacy Protection Act.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today invoked the Supreme Court’s decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products to affirm a district court’s finding that MSCHF Product Studio, Inc.’s shoe, the Wavy Baby Sneaker, likely infringed Vans, Inc.’s Old Skool shoe.

The U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide before the end of its current term whether the failure to make a disclosure pursuant to Item 303 of Regulation S-K can serve as the basis for a...

 

Vans argues that MSCHF "blatantly and unmistakably copied Vans’ trademarks and trade dress" with its its Wavy Baby shoes.

Tyga's "Wavy Baby” parody of Vans sneakers were ruled illegal by a Federal court.

On November 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the service-of-process clock for a False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam complaint begins to run when the district...

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The Second Circuit recently held that in order to state a claim for a prohibited transaction pursuant to ERISA section 406(a)(1)(C), it is not enough to allege that a fiduciary caused the plan to compensate a service provider for its services.

The Second Circuit on Tuesday cited a recent Supreme Court decision that stripped special First Amendment protections for a Jack Daniel's-spoofing chew toy in a ruling that will allow Vans to enforce a restraining order against a Brooklyn art collective that made a parody of its marquee shoe.