Category Archives: General

What Ever Happened to PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS?

Cameron Sexton for State Representative (“Applicant”), a Tennessee Political Campaign Committee (“PAC”), sought registration on the Principal Register of the proposed PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS mark for among other goods and services, T-shirts and political fundraising services. The application was refused on the ground that the phrase PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS does not function as a trademark […]

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Consumer Review Fairness Act Prohibits Anti-Review Clauses

The Consumer Review Fairness Act (“CRFA”), enacted by Congress in 2016, states that “[i]t shall be unlawful for a person to offer a form contract containing a provision” that “prohibits or restricts the ability of an individual who is a party to the form contract to engage in a covered communication.” 15 U.S.C. § 45b(b)(1) […]

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Reply-All with Implied Consent

The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued its Formal Opinion No. 503 on November 2, 2022, which concluded that a lawyer may ethically respond to a group email from opposing counsel with a “reply all” message even if the initiating group email’s recipients included the sending lawyer’s client. ABA Model […]

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No Time for Daylight Saving Time?

Time to “fall back” an hour on Sunday, November 6, 2022. An annual ritual that may change with the Sunshine Protection Act that passed the U.S. Senate earlier this year to make Daylight Saving Time permanent year-round. According to a YouGov poll taken in March 2022, 64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks […]

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Quantum Meruit & Unjust Enrichment 

“In Colorado, the doctrine of quantum meruit is synonymous with the doctrine of unjust enrichment.” Cahey v. IBM Corp., No. 20-cv-00781-NYW, 2020 WL 5203787 (Sept. 1, 2020) (citing Dudding v. Norton Frickey & Assocs., 11 P.3d 441, 444 (Colo. 2000). “Quantum meruit is an equitable theory of recovery that arises out of the need to […]

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