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ArticleMiddle-Earth EnforcementThe owner of rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has threatened legal action against a Hobbit tribute bar in the UK. Middle-earth Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, alleges the 20+ year-old Southampton bar is infringing the beloved Tolkien novel’s valuable intellectual property. United StatesIntellectual PropertyFrankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
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ArticlePrior Restraint Vacated In Lawsuit By Haiti's Prime MinisterA federal district judge in Miami vacated a prior restraint forbidding a U.S.-based Haitian journalist from ever publishing anything relating to the prime minister of Haiti. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe sued Leo Joseph for defamation, alleging that Joseph published defamatory articles in his newspaper, Haiti-Observateur. United StatesLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationHolland & Knight
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