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In a decision by a state trial court, Georgia has joined California and Texas in holding that local governments cannot impose franchise fees on over-the-top ("OTT") streaming TV services like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.

On December 19, 2022, an Illinois state trial court issued an order dismissing, with prejudice, a complaint filed by the Illinois Automobile Dealers Association ("IADA")...

Before we move too far into 2015, it is important to mention briefly an additional case from the end of 2014 that, once again, calls into question the franchisor-franchisee model.

In Noble Roman's Inc., v. B & MP, LLC et al., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a motion to dismiss a suit alleging breach of a franchise agreement.

When seeking preliminary injunctive relief to enforce a non-compete, the moving party is often focused on how obvious it is that the defendant breached the parties' agreement.

The International Franchise Association recently released its annual Franchise Business Economic Outlook for 2015 and prospects for the franchising industry are looking good.

In this episode (approx. 10 minutes), Professor Anat Alon-Beck of Case-Western Reserve University School of Law (follow her work on SSRN) talks to us about her scholarship.

Delaware is the state of incorporation for a majority of venture-backed and publicly-traded corporations.

In the past few months, I've been involved in a couple of unique, and fascinating, crowdfunding efforts.

In a December 2014 post, I presented an overview of what items should be included by an employer in a covenant not to compete in order to make it enforceable with respect to the employer's employees and when that covenant should be implemented by the employer.

I was just reading an article about labor and employment cases that employers will be watching in 2016.

On May 2, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court, in a per curiam opinion in Massage Heights Franchising, LLC v. Danette Hagman, reversed a Houston Fourteenth Court of Appeals decision in part...

The National Basketball Association ("NBA") Board of Governors has voted to permit sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and university endowments to invest in NBA teams.

On November 9, 2021 the City Council's Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises held a public hearing on the SoHo/NoHo Rezoning (to read about the Subcommittee hearing.

There are a number of important reasons why a franchise system may elect to change its signature look and both articles hit on three of the big one.

Adding to case law addressing franchisor–franchisee disputes involving system departures and post-termination competition, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued its opinion...

The Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in three related cases in the Eastern District of Washington yesterday dealing with alleged "no-poach"