January, 2018

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No Contract? No Problem. Condo Unit Owners Can Still Sue Architect

GDB Firm Blog

Bucking a trend to the contrary, a recent decision finds condo unit owners can sue an architect for construction defects—even though they had no direct contract with the architect.

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Could Any Old Yahoo Nab Chief Wahoo?

KMK Blog

The MLB team in Cleveland has finally decided to stop wearing "Chief Wahoo," a caricature of a Native American, on their uniforms. The change will happen in 2019. Interestingly, however, the team told ESPN that it "will still sell merchandise featuring the mascot in Northeast Ohio" because "[t]he team must maintain a retail presence so that MLB and the Indians can keep ownership of the trademark.

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Substantive Changes for Discovery in Criminal Justice in New York for 2018

GDB Firm Blog

The New York State Court System opened the new year with a swath of proposed changes to the way criminal justice is administered in New York State. These changes, which come in the form of administrative directives from Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, may help to streamline the criminal justice system and avoid improper convictions.

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A Step In The Right Direction: Judge Suppresses Evidence Seized In Murder Case Due To Overbroad Computer Search Warrants

GDB Firm Blog

At the onset of the New Year, the Criminal Part of New York Supreme Court issued a ruling which called upon prosecutors and judges to diligently scrutinize search warrants seeking to access information stored on a defendants electronic devices before signing off on them. The court's ruling in People v. Covlin provides the law an opportunity to catch up with rapid changes in technology and society which have been diminishing Fourth Amendment rights of individuals.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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When the Pipe Breaks: A Reminder about the Statute of Limitations

GDB Firm Blog

Can a subcontractor be liable for damages resulting from a pipe break 10 years after it last performed work at the project? Not if its relationship to the plaintiff is the "functional equivalent of privity" and the plaintiff is "not a stranger to the contract.

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New York Court of Appeals Sets Forth New Rule on Cross-Racial Identification Jury Instructions

GDB Firm Blog

Recently, the New York Court of Appeals recognized the consensus of cognitive and social psychologists that the likelihood of making a mistaken identification is significantly higher when the witness is identifying someone of another race. This is of crucial consequence in the criminal context since mistaken eyewitness identifications are the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions in the country, responsible for more wrongful convictions than all other causes combined.

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