Civil Law

Grant Cardone’s Deposition Entertained. Do Not Try This Yourself!

I recently watched considerable footage from the publicly released deposition testimony in the lawsuit against Cardone Capital. As an attorney and someone who loves studying persuasion techniques, I found it to be great theatre.

For those unfamiliar with him, Grant Cardone is a prominent entrepreneur, real estate investor, sales trainer, author, and social media personality with millions of followers. He founded Cardone Capital, a real estate investment firm that raises money from investors to acquire and operate multifamily and commercial … Read the rest

Civil Law

Blogga, Don’t Take My Kodachrome (Without My Okay): 

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

Civil Law

Jerez to Vejer, after the MICHELIN Guide: the frontier towns and the case for living in Spain part of the year or all of it

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

Civil Law

Prove the Policy, Not the Story: SBA’s Final Rule Rewrites the 8(a) Social Disadvantage Test

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

Civil Law

Multi-club ownership (Part II): Rugby union, cricket, motorsport and beyond

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

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Representative Claims Under the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law and Prevailing Wage Act Do Not Require Class Certification

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

Civil Law

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (JULY 27 – JULY 31)

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Good afternoon.
Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 27, 2026.

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In Kentros v. Kentros, the Court dismissed an appeal and cross-appeal concerning a will that omitted a remainderman clause for properties bequeathed to the testator’s husband for life (ie. the will was silent on who would get the properties after the

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GeTtin’ SALTy Episode 80 | The Real Cost of Eliminating Property Taxes

In this episode of the GeTtin’ SALTy podcast, host Nikki E. Dobay is joined by Jared Walczak, Senior Fellow at the Tax Foundation and founder of Walczak Policy Consulting, to take a look at the growing movement to reduce or eliminate real property taxes across the United States.

The conversation centers on Jared’s recently published paper, “Replacing the Irreplaceable,” released through the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, which uses Ohio as a case study to quantify what it would cost … Read the rest