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Wayne Newton locked in legal battle over home conversion plans
Entertainer Wayne Newton is fighting a back-and-forth legal battle over his lavish Las Vegas estate, which is undergoing a conversion into a $50 million celebrity museum. The company that purchased the rights to the project is suing Newton, his wife and her mother,...
New Jersey asphalt companies accuse competitor of bid-rigging
Two New Jersey asphalt companies are suing an out-of-state competitor, accusing it of conspiring with several local municipalities to control the road paving business. The commercial dispute involves seven eastern Pennsylvania cities, all of which are said to have...
What’s keeping chain restaurants out of New Jersey?
Lots of people who love to eat and have steady incomes live in New Jersey. So why do chain restaurants tend to shy away from opening a new business here?New Jersey ranks near the bottom among states with the most chain restaurants, defined as restaurants with at least...
New Jersey collector sues auction house for breach of contract
If you're a collector of antiques or memorabilia, you place a high value on authenticity. When you fall in love with a piece that an auction house is offering, you trust that the source has been vetted and the item is exactly what the auctioneer proclaims it to be....
Naming rights: When is identity considered intellectual property?
Most artists are well aware that it's illegal to copy the work of another artist and claim it as their own. But what are the limits when it comes to the identity of the artists themselves? Can two artists share the same name, or is what we call ourselves considered...
Producers of Tom Cruise film slapped with breach of contract suit
The producers of an upcoming Tom Cruise movie are being sued for breach of contract by another producer who is no longer involved with the project. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month, alleges that the producers of "One Shot" edged him out of the film adaptation of...
Kodak employees sue company over 401(k) failure
People who invest in their company's 401(k) or stock option plans are not usually armchair stockbrokers. Most employees think more about the percentage of their salary they're contributing rather than the stocks in which they're investing. A publicly held company may...
Retired officer sues Port Authority for breach of contract
Most companies and government agencies offer some type of benefits and perks to their employees, and many extend these to their retirees. Some of the perks are financial, which can be extra helpful to those on a fixed income. But what happens when these benefits...
From soup to … watches? Rolex sues small deli for using its name
It's a fairly common story in the realm of intellectual property: A new business starts up, only to discover another business already has the same name. The already established business goes after the new one, which ends up changing its name. Usually, the business...
Author sues Angelina Jolie for copyright infringement
There are artists who say that there are no truly original ideas, that every work of art is influenced by something else, consciously or not. But the author of a book on the Balkan conflict of the 1990s isn't taking that viewpoint with his copyright infringement...
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