First Department News
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Ukraine’s copyright protections have deteriorated to a level where the Obama administration may consider trade sanctions, according to a U.S. report that also cites China for trade-secret theft.
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Morrison & Foerster LLP announced leadership changes, appointing San Francisco partner Brandon Parris and Tokyo partner Randy Laxer as co-chairmen of the corporate department and New York partner Gary Lee and Tokyo partner Dale Caldwell to lead the finance group.
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A hearing on a $55 million settlement of lawsuits over a plan to take New York’s Empire State Building public will take place tomorrow after a judge declined a request by opponents of the transaction to postpone the proceedings.
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New York livery car groups won a bid to block a pilot program that would enable people to hail and pay for a ride in one of the city’s 13,000 yellow taxis using location-based smartphone applications.
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The son of late New York philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor faces as long as three years in prison for defrauding his mother after a state appeals court upheld his conviction.
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Bank of America Corp. asked a New York appeals court to overturn portions of a lower-court ruling that improved bond insurer MBIA Inc.’s chances of recovering losses on mortgage loans.
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A New York law firm partner who said he paid his ex-wife $2.7 million of the purported value of his account with Bernard Madoff can sue her to revise their 2006 agreement because of the Ponzi scheme, an appeals court ruled.
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Tenants of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village in New York who sued alleging they were overcharged for rent reached a $68.8 million settlement with MetLife Inc. and CWCapital Asset Management, lawyers said.
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Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit and Pramit Jhaveri, head of the bank’s Indian unit, were cleared by local police of involvement in an alleged $66 million fraud at its branch in Gurgaon.
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A New York appeals court threw out a conviction for the second time in as many weeks of a teenager caught with a loaded gun in a so-called stop-and-frisk search by officers of the New York City Police Department.
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