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Dam Bar Owner Wants to Settle Copyright Infringement Dispute with ASCAP

- February 27, 2018

Elda Brandt, the owner of Dam Bar, recently made it known that she wants nothing more than to settle her “copyright infringement dispute with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a nonprofit performance rights organization.” For those who don’t know, the ASCAP filed a lawsuit against her in federal court “for playing unlicensed music.” So far she has been asked to pay “about $4,000 in licensing fees to ASCAP; Broadcast Music Inc., a music rights organization; and the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers, or SEASAC, also a performance rights organization.” To help defend herself against the complaints from ASCAP, Brandt said she plans on “hiring a Seattle lawyer to represent her.”

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Trump National Golf Club Settles Class Action for $5.45m

- February 26, 2018

Trump National Golf Club in Florida agreed to pay nearly $5.50 million as part of a part of a class action settlement. The hefty payout stems from a regulatory overhaul led by Donald Trump before he became president. Litigants claimed a change in club policies cheated them out of their money and membership. According to

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Breach of Warranty Lawsuit Filed Against L.L. Bean After Company Does Away With Return Policy

- February 25, 2018

L.L. Bean Inc. has recently come under fire for changes it made to its popular lifetime warranty policy. In fact, customers are so upset with the changes that one even went so far as to file a breach of warranty lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit was filed by loyal customer Victor Bondi earlier this month in Chicago federal court and “seeks class-action status.” But why exactly is Bondi upset with the changes? Why file a lawsuit?

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Lawsuits Filed Over Deadly Pine Ridge Duplex Explosion

- February 25, 2018

Back in 2016, a deadly propane gas explosion occurred at a Pine Ridge duplex, claiming the lives of four people while also maiming three others. As a result of the accident, two lawsuits have been filed. The most recent lawsuit was filed earlier this month in Oglala Lakota County circuit court on behalf of 13 plaintiffs, and “accuses two companies, Nebraska-based Western Cooperative Company Inc. and South Dakota-based C. Brunsch Inc., doing business as Lakota Plains Propane, of negligence, failure to inspect and warn, strict liability and breach of warranty.”

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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Wake of Deadly Helicopter Crash that Killed Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry

- February 23, 2018

Last year Troy Gentry, a member of country music band Montgomery Gentry, tragically lost his life in a helicopter crash in September. Now his widow, Angie Gentry, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit as a result. The lawsuit was filed back on February 14 in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and names “the aircraft’s manufacturers, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Sikorsky Global Helicopters, Inc. and the Keystone Helicopter Corporation as defendants in the case.” According to the lawsuit, Gentry’s widow alleges the defendants failed to “make the civilian version of the Model 269 helicopter crashworthy, despite their knowledge that a military version of the same helicopter had been updated years earlier.”

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