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Byline: DANIELLE HAYNES The National Rifle Association sued Oklahoma-based advertising agency Ackerman McQueen, saying the company refused to provide documentation about billing. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Virginia, accused Ackerman [...]

Company founders forced to surrender valuables to pay consumer damages Snow Devils? 'A blizzard of lies' is how the Maine AG's office described the sales and marketing practices of husband-and-wife [...]

Byline: Bryan Reyonlds April 25--COLUMBUS GROVE -- Putnam County Common Pleas Court Judge Keith Schierloh denied the motion for dismissal filed by Columbus Grove is a lawsuit between village council [...]

For this month's bid protest roundup, we have identified four diverse bid protest decisions coming out of the Government Accountability Office ('GAO') and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The [...]

A recent dispute between an advertiser AXTS Inc. ('AXTS') and a video production company GY6vids ('GY6') produced an interesting issue involving the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) - [...]

Facebook has faced pressure for potentially misleading publishers about advertising metrics. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in California has put the issue back in the spotlight. Las Vegas-based marketing agency Crowd Siren [...]

Believing the registration of No. 7185184 '旁氏' (note: Chinese characters same with Pond's) trademark (the opposed trademark) by Jiangsu Yancheng Youshang Advertising Company damaging the interests of its mark Pond's, [...]

Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, No. 14-857, 2016 U.S. LEXIS 846 (U.S. Jan. 20, 2016). In a consumer case of great interest to corporate defendants facing class action lawsuits, a divided [...]

Byline: Scott Lauck Faulty jury instructions led an appeals court to toss out a $12.5 million jury verdict against a nationwide auto parts store. Following a month-long trial in 2015, [...]

Byline: Kara O'Neill A zoo in Moscow is suing an advertising company after one of their rented raccoons appeared in a nude video. Guide Moscow petting zoo has claimed that [...]

Byline: Tristan Kirk Courts Reporter AN advertising agency PA who spent more than PS33,000 on designer clothes, hotels and taxi rides using company credit cards could be spared a jail [...]

The U.S. Army's outside advertising agency is being sued by two African-American-focused media networks for cheating them into doing business with a financially unviable partner as part of its scheme [...]

Key developments in the area of Technology, Media and Telecommunications over the past two months are summarised below. JUDGMENT Optus fined for misleading consumers On 22 May 2018, the Federal [...]

Byline: Chandni Shah The verdict is out Rajinikanth's wife, Latha and her company, was earlier summoned by the Supreme Court over non-payment of dues to an ad agency in regards [...]

The recent decision of the UK Supreme Court in Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited [2018] UKSC 24 highlights the need for strict observance of No Oral [...]

On 16 May 2018, the UK Supreme Court held in that 'no oral modification' clauses ('NOM clauses') are valid and enforceable. The effect of the decision in Rock Advertising Limited [...]

Contracts frequently provide that they may not be amended, unless in writing and signed by both parties. But how does that fit with the principle of freedom of contract and [...]

At first sight, the message of the Supreme Court's recent judgment in Rock Advertising v MWB seems simple: if you want to vary your contract, make sure you get it [...]

When your contract contains a clause excluding oral variations... A recent decision of the Supreme Court in Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited brings an end to [...]

The UK Supreme Court has provided some welcome clarity on the status and reach of 'no oral modification' clauses. We expect that the decision will likely be applied in New [...]

The May 2018 Supreme Court case of Rock Advertising Limited (Respondent) v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited (Appellant) [2018] UKSC 24 has amended how 'no oral variations' clauses are interpreted [...]

Very often a contract contains a clause which states it may only be amended in writing. Such clauses are known as 'No Oral Modification' or NOM clauses. The intention of [...]

In recent years, a number of tattoo artists have filed copyright infringement lawsuits when tattoos that they have inked into their celebrity clients' flesh have been featured prominently in blockbuster [...]

A third higher regional court has ruled on the legality of website ad blockers, a further decision in one of several proceedings initiated against the distribution of 'AdBlock Plus'. The [...]

In a judgment featuring a decidedly above-average number of rap lyrics, Eight Mile Style LLC v New Zealand National Party [2017] NZHC 2603, Justice Cull of the New Zealand High [...]

In a world where virtual celebrities make endorsements, how is advertising governed? F for Fake Is an Instagram post an ad? That's the question posed by Truth In Advertising Inc. [...]

After an arbitral award has been issued in a commercial dispute, the parties have limited rights to appeal the award or bring an application to set it aside under the [...]

This month's bid protest roundup discusses five decisions covering corrective action, an agency's evaluation discretion, the 'late-is-late' rule, intervening at the Court of Federal Claims (COFC), and Small Business Administration [...]

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a non-party online behavioral advertising firm could not benefit from the arbitration clause in the agreement between Verizon and its customers because [...]

Byline: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY The Supreme Court dealt a rare setback Wednesday to companies trying to avoid potentially expensive class-action lawsuits. The justices ruled that offers of full compensation [...]

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gave an important victory to regular Americans, ruling that companies may not avoid class-action lawsuits by offering to buy off the individual plaintiffs before they [...]