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On December 8, 2009, while struggling with health care reform, financial industry overhaul, a spiraling deficit, the risk of a double-dip recession, and all of the other headline-grabbing events of the past months, the House of Representatives took an important step in pushing forward legislation which could, if enacted, have a significant impact on almost […]
Cloud Computing, Part I This article is the first in a series about cloud computing. Read parts two and three to get the full story. On October 29, 2009, the City of Los Angeles announced that it is outsourcing its e-mail services to Google, becoming the largest governmental body to outsource such a key computer […]
Jim Butler’s blog article, "Hospitality Lawyer at the 2009 NYU hotel conference — Sound bites", appeared in Hotel Online and ehotelier.com. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog: Hospitality Lawyer at the 2009 NYU hotel conference — Sound bites
Bob Braun’s article (with an introduction by Jim Butler), "Ask the Hotel Lawyer™: Hotel executives today and the "bedbug letter"", appeared in Hotel Online, 4Hoteliers.comm Hotel Resource and ehotelier.com. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog: Ask the Hotel Lawyer™: Hotel executives today and the "bedbug letter" . . . Who’s the "idiot"? […]
Bob Braun’s article (with an introduction by Jim Butler), "Ask the Hotel Lawyer™: Hotel executives today and the "bedbug letter"", appeared in Hotel Resource. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog: Ask the Hotel Lawyer™: Hotel executives today and the "bedbug letter" . . . Who’s the "idiot"? You be the judge.
Song-Beverly Credit Card Act Does Not Apply To Online Credit Card Sales To download a PDF of this Alert, click here. In a case decided on January 5, 2009 (Saulic v. Symantec Corp.), the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California held that the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (the “Act”) does not apply […]
Good News for California Retailers: California Courts Ease Compliance With The Song-Beverly Credit Card Act To download a PDF of this Alert, click here. The Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (California Civil Code § 1747 et seq.) (the “Act”) was enacted to protect consumer privacy rights by restricting the type of information which retailers can request […]
Merchants, Beware: Could You Be Liable for Credit Card Breaches? by Robert E. Braun Retail Merchandiser December 2008 If you had been following financial headlines in August of this year, you would have seen the following reports: August 5, 2008: The United States Department of Justice announced the largest identity theft case ever prosecuted in […]
Bob Braun’s article entitled “Documenting Corporate Joint Ventures” was published in the Summer 2007 edition (Volume 22, Number 3) of California Business Law Practitioner, a journal published by the Continuing Education of the Bar.
The California courts have recently held that a seller’s agreement not to solicit employees of the buyer is too broad under California Business and Professions Code Sec. 16601, and thus not enforceable. In Strategix, Ltd. v. Infocrossing, _ Cal. Rptr. 3d _ (4th Dist. 2006), the court said any such restrictions on employee solicitation must […]
