Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a decision this week, the Florida Supreme Court rejected claims by Flo & Eddie (of the 1960s band the Turtles) that there was a common law public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings in the state of Florida (the opinion is available here ). Could California decide differently?

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

These courts will not, however, enforce a clause when it is unreasonable or contrary to public policy. The state courts in Florida and Connecticut have become more likely to enforce in recent years. The federal district courts sitting in the Ninth Circuit, which includes California, have the lowest enforcement rate.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 1, 2015

Obviously, that settlement does not appear to resolve the issues with independent sound recording owners (like Flo & Eddie who brought the actions that have resulted in NY and California decisions finding a performance right in pre-1972 recordings in those two states). First, a review of the issue with pre-1972 sound recordings.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Gambling on tribal lands first came to prominence with a Seminole casino in Florida in the late 1970s. The Supreme Court first addressed the problem squarely in its 1987 decision in California v. Some background about the general compromise that governs that problem sets the stage for this dispute.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

FCC , which rejected the requirement that broadcast licensees independently check two federal databases to verify whether an airtime lessee is a “foreign governmental entity” (see our Broadcast Law Blog article on the Court’s decision here ).

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

The Dobbs dissent rightly predicted that discovering what kind of abortion regulation is “legitimate” will lead to even more abortion litigation. Florida is a hybrid, with the courts holding that the state constitution protects access to abortion yet laws that restrict it.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For a time, that decision stopped the death penalty in its tracks and offered a stinging critique of its unfairness. The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The Furman Framework. Austin Sarat.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 23, 2018

DeRenzi), The Florida State Bar President (Michelle Suskauer), and nationally known Supreme Court advocate and commentator (Dean Erwin Chemerinsky from Berkeley Law) to name a few. ABA Annual Meeting 2018: Blockbuster Supreme Court Decisions in a Partisan Era. ABA Annual Meeting 2018: ABA Section of Litigation.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

On the PRO front, we also talked about the settlements of the antitrust litigation brought by both the radio and TV industry over SESAC royalties (settlements about which we wrote here ). Rates under the settlements, which will be decided by arbitration if not resolved by negotiation, are currently being worked on.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2018

The decision looks like a simple premise that digitization is no magic bullet to defeat pre-1972 sound recording claims, but there is much to unpack in this seemingly straightforward decision. First, we need to provide a little background on the litigation over pre-1972 sound recordings.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

This week’s federal Court of Appeals order was very direct, relying on the state court decision that there was no public performance right to end the case. While this ends the case in NY, appellate courts in California and Florida still need to rule on the issue of whether there is a performance royalty in those states.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 16, 2017

The Florida case has been referred to that state’s highest court for an advisory ruling on the state of the state’s law on the issue, and earlier this week, the same thing happened in California.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But after roughly 90 minutes of oral argument, it seemed that the justices might not reach that question at all and might instead hold that the case is moot – that is, no longer a live controversy – after Laufer dismissed her case in the lower court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Supreme Court Said Florida Failed to Prove Georgia’s Overconsumption of Water Caused Injuries. and non-U.S. Georgia , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”. Goertz , 21-442. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The skink is a lizard that lives only on islands of the Florida Keys; its habitat is threatened by sea level rise. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. She also was persuaded that Congress had ratified the lower appellate court decisions holding that there was a narrower scope of review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Minnesota Supreme Court Declined to Review Claims Regarding Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. As Adams faded into the background, Harpster took their work on tour, from Florida to Alaska, to university lecture halls and international homicide conferences, city police academies and statewide coroners’ seminars.

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