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Federal District Court Opinions ICONIX, INC. v. TOKUDA, (N.D.Cal. 2006) ICONIX, INC., Plaintiff, v. LANCE TOKUDA, ET AL., Defendants. No. C 06-2201 SBA, [Docket Nos. 21, 82, 116, 130]. United States District Court, N.D. California. September 26, 2006 ORDER SAUNDRA ARMSTRONG, District Judge This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction […]

United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Reports THOMPSON v. MICROSOFT CORP., 06-1073 (Fed. Cir. 12-8-2006) ROBERT D. THOMPSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee. No. 06-1073. United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit. Decided December 8, 2006. Appealed from United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Andrew Kochanowski, Sommers Schwartz, P.C., of […]

Taxes: Key Points Customers are required to pay state cigarette taxes on all cigarettes purchased from Internet cigarette retailers. Federal law requires all Internet cigarette retailers to report names of their customers to local state tax officials in almost all cases. State Laws for Internet Cigarette Retailers In the relatively brief period of time since […]

August 25, 2006 Today’s bit of free legal advice comes to us from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, where we learn that defendants should not use disk-cleaning utilities to wipe portions of their hard drives before turning them over to plaintiffs in the course of discovery. Delina Tschirhart did […]

Like hundreds of thousands of other advertisers, many law firms contract with Yahoo and Google to serve up small text ads to anyone searching the Web using certain words, such as “Vioxx” or “mesothelioma,” a rare form of asbestos-linked cancer. The firms, which have affiliates throughout the country, pay the search companies a fee each […]

Small Business Administration (SBA): FOIA Mission The Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOI/PA) Office has the responsibility of managing the appellate function for the SBA as well as developing policy and procedures for the Agency regarding both Acts. Both Acts contain two administrative levels, an initial and an appellate review. The initial review is conducted by […]