Annabel Rodriguez grew up in Boston in a Spanish-speaking home where, from childhood, she was the family translator and advocate. She didn’t think a career in law was within her reach until she got a unique opportunity in college to enroll in a fellowship at the federal courthouse.
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SokolskyFilm, Fair Use, and Why Context Might Soon Be Everything In Copyright
By James P. Flynn, Epstein Becker Green
They give us those nice bright colors/Give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah/I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph/So momma don’t take my Kodachrome away
[KodaChrome by Paul Simon]
When the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California decided SokolskyFilm, Inc. v. … Read the rest
León Fernando Del Canto
The MICHELIN Guide has published an account of a journey through Cádiz in which the British chef Merlin Labron-Johnson, of Osip in Somerset, is taken by Juanlu Fernández of LÚ Cocina y Alma through the almadraba, the fixed-net tuna fishery the Phoenicians were working three thousand years ago, and then inland to Jerez. Read it. I am grateful to the Guide and to the Andalucía Tourist Board for recording what those of us from Jerez have … Read the rest
The proposed rule is now history. On August 11, 2026, the Small Business Administration (SBA) published its final rule, Reforms to 13 CFR 124.103 To Remove SBA’s 8(a) Program’s Rebuttable Presumption of Social Disadvantage for Individually Owned Firms Only, 91 Fed. Reg. 51568 (Aug. 11, 2026) (the Rule). The Rule takes effect September 10, 2026, and by its own terms applies to all pending applications of individually-owned applicants as of that date. A firm with an application sitting in the … Read the rest
Multi-club ownership (MCO) has become a significant trend across global sport as investors seek to create value through shared resources, commercial synergies, talent pathways, and diversified portfolios. While football has been the most visible example of MCO, the article highlights how similar ownership models have gained traction in rugby union, cricket, and motorsport.
In rugby union, recent acquisitions of Prem clubs by Black Knight and Red Bull demonstrate how investors are expanding established sports portfolios into rugby though vertical integration. … Read the rest
On the eve of the 250th anniversary of Independence Day, in the nation’s capital, the Federal Circuit Center for Innovation and Law invited the public to the Justice Up Close, History All Around civics program to explore how law, innovation, science, and civic action have shaped the nation.
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By: Kyle D. Winnick and Andrew Simon
Seyfarth Synopsis: The New Jersey Appellate Division held that representative claims under the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law (“WHL”) and Prevailing Wage Act (“PWA”) do not require class certification and established a two-year look-back period to WHL and Earned Sick Leave Law (“ESLL”) claims predating the 2019 amendment.
In a significant decision that will affect the scope of representative actions under the WHL and PWA, the New Jersey Appellate Division held that … Read the rest