Jan 23
Tinder will provide an estimated $17.3 million in subscription features and cash to settle an age discrimination suit which claims the company overcharged its older generation of dating app users. Tinder’s policy of charging an extra $10 per month to its Tinder Plus users over the age of 30 has been called a violation of …
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2019/01/tinder-age-discrimination-suit/
Aug 12
A federal appeals court has agreed with an unmarried California couple that they should not be treated as married with regard to mortgage interest deductions limits. Bruce Voss and Charles Sophy are co-owners of real property. Each claimed a home mortgage interest deduction in reliance on Section 163(h)(3) of the Tax Code, which allows for …
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2015/08/appeals-court-provides-tax-benefit-to-unmarried-couples-with-high-mortgage-debt/
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2015/02/internet-real-estate-continues-to-evolve-with-new-gtlds/
Jan 22
In a recent patent infringement case, a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition (of the person most knowledgeable or “PMK” of a corporation on defined topics) included over 300 objections by plaintiff’s lawyer. The defense subsequently argued for additional time to re-depose the PMK, claiming that the large number of objections effectively “ran down the clock” and prevented …
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2015/01/defense-asks-court-to-let-the-witness-speak/
Jan 07
Effective Jan. 1, 2015, the NJ Judiciary will be utilizing a Complex Business Litigation Program to address complex business, commercial and construction cases with damage calculations exceeding $200,000. Cases with smaller damage calculations may otherwise qualify based on the complexity of legal or factual issues a large number of parties complex discovery issues, including large volumes of documents …
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2015/01/specialized-judges-to-handle-complex-business-commercial-and-construction-litigation/
Jul 09
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court decision to grant summary judgment based on excluding three plaintiff experts regarding causation. While the district court ruled the experts did not reliably exclude alternative causes of injury and therefore their testimony was inadmissible under Daubert, the Court of Appeals concluded that this was …
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2014/07/daubert-provides-for-liberal-admission-of-expert-testimony/
Sep 19
REI, a retailer of outdoors equipment and clothing, has ended its extremely generous merchandise returns policy. This policy allowed customers to return any REI product, no matter how much time had passed since the date of purchase, no matter the condition of the returned product, and with or without a receipt. REI’s generosity earned it …
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2013/09/how-the-information-age-might-have-doomed-reis-generous-returns-policy/
Feb 17
Internet Real Estate Continues to Evolve with New gTLDs
February 17, 2015
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced that over 500 new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) have now been introduced into the Internet. The milestone 500th gTLD was .NTT, which represents Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. New domains are rolling out at an average of one per day. ICANN has described its current process as the “Internet’s …
Continue reading