Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international, full-service law firm with strengths in the energy, financial services, real estate and technology sectors and offices located throughout the United States and the world, including key financial centers such as New York, London, Tokyo and Shanghai.Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro was established in San Francisco following the California Gold Rush, helping to create such giants as Chevron and Pacific Bell, now known as AT&T. Mergers with Los Angeles-based Lillick & McHose in 1990 and Washington, DC-based Cushman Darby & Cushman in 1996 created a presence on both coasts for the firm, and a 2001 merger with Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts expanded the New York office.Pillsbury as it is known today is the product of a 2005 merger between Pillsbury Winthrop and DC-based Shaw Pittman, a large 300 lawyer law firm with strengths in global sourcing, energy, real estate, technology and communications.
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Supreme Court Tosses Broadcast Indecency Back to FCC
After all the teeth gnashing and nail-biting over how the Supreme Court might address the First Amendment issues plaguing the Federal Communications Commission's broadcast indecency rules for years, the court turned around Thursday and tossed it all back in the FCC's lap.
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Price tag for Google-Oracle ‘World Series’ trial pegged at $50 million
The judge in the notorious dispute between Oracle and Google over Java software declared from the outset that the case was the “World Series” of intellectual property trials. And no wonder. The money the two sides have already spent on legal fees is nearing the annual payroll of the San Diego Padres.
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Asian Video Games Could Sink Social Gaming Patent
A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments—the process that lets players buy and sell virtual items within a video game. But one lawyer says the patent in question could be KO’d by video games from the late 1990’s.
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New Service Delivers Broadcast TV on the Internet
A service aimed at cable TV cord cutters is set to launch in New York on March 14. The service, called Aereo, streams live broadcast TV channels to all Internet-enabled devices, from smart phones to tablets, for the monthly fee of $12.
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No Finger Flap Fallout Fines Expected
M. I. A. 's flip of the bird and bleeped-out fleeting expletive during Madonna's Super Bowl half-time performance may have caused a real flap, but unlike Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction in 2004, which led the Federal Communications Commission to slap a $550 million fine on CBS the incident, the FCC is unlikely to jump on NBC's affiliates and levy a fine for a fleeting finger gesture.
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Genachowski Trying to Keep Media Ownership Review Quiet
The last thing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to talk about are the media ownership rules. With the exception of a fleeting mention of media ownership, Genachowski has said very little about the 2010 quadrennial review of the rules required by Congress.
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Comcast Sticking to its Guns in Fight With Bloomberg
WASHINGTON—Comcast has filed its formal response to an FCC complaint from Bloomberg, which alleges the cable giant violated one of the conditions regulators imposed on its merger with NBC Universal.
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Supreme Court Takes Case on FCC Indecency Rules
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the Federal Communications Commission's broadcast indecency rules in the hopes of clearing up once and for all whether things like a fleeting F-bomb or a bare butt are indecent. Oral arguments will be scheduled for this fall.
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Did Comcast Fool the FCC?
Do the conditions that the Federal Communications Commission imposed on the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal have any real teeth? We may find out soon, thanks to a complaint against Comcast that Bloomberg LP is set to file with the FCC as early as this Friday.
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Gawker.TV Re-Edits, Reposts Improv Everywhere Video
This Wednesday, Improv Everywhere posted its latest video of hijinks on the New York Subway, this time involving a bunch of dudes wearing Stormtrooper costumes. The video has received more than 1. 1 million views so far, and was picked up by a number of viral aggregate sites, including Buzzfeed.
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