Over the past twenty years, one of the most rapidly growing areas of litigation in the United States has been in the employment area. Relatively recent changes in the law have created new causes of actions available for employees to sue their employers. Some of the most frequent suits are those based on race, sex or other discrimination, sexual harassment, violation of the family medical leave act, retaliation, and violation of laws against age discrimination.

 Jury awards relating to employee lawsuits usually reach well into the six […]

Does an actress have a copyright interest in her performance in a film? The answer to that question is “yes”, at least according to a recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California.

In Garcia versus Google, Inc., et al., 743 F.3^rd 1258 (9^th Cir. 2014), the plaintiff, Cindy Lee Garcia, had sought a preliminary injunction in district court requiring Google to remove from YouTube a film in which she had appeared as an actress, claiming that the posting of the video infringed […]