INTERNET LAW

Federal District Court Opinions Unpublished FONOVISA, INC. v. MERINO, (N.J. 11-27-2006) FONOVISA, INC., ARISTA RECORDS, LLC, and BMG MUSIC, Plaintiffs, v. Magally MERINO, Defendant. Civil Action 06-3538 (DRD). United States District Court, D. New Jersey. November 27, 2006 [EDITOR’S NOTE: This case is unpublished as indicated by the issuing court.] Karen A. Confoy, Esq., STEARNS […]

UPDATED October 31, 2007 State and local officials looking for some extra scratch by taxing your dial-up, cable or DSL Internet-access services will have to live with a seven-year itch after Congress banned those fees until 2014. About the Internet Tax Freedom Act Legislation imposing a three-year moratorium on new taxes on Internet access and […]

New York Miscellaneous Reports PEOPLE v. LIPSITZ, 174 Misc.2d 571 (1997) 663 N.Y.S.2d 468 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by DENNIS C. VACCO, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, Petitioner, v. KEVIN JAY LIPSITZ, Individually and Doing Business as COLLEGETOWN MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES, Doing Business as KRAZY KEVIN’S MAGAZINE CLUB, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]