In 1997 the plaintiff, Mr. Sveen, acquired a life insurance and married his wife later that year. Only a year later he named her the beneficiary of the insurance, as well as his two adult children as the contingent beneficiaries. In 2002 Minnesota changed its probate code
Read more →The “Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF) is a landmark European ruling that establishes a right to privacy that governs and regulates how one can delist their personal information from online search results. Individuals can request that search engines, such as Google, delist URLS from across the Internet
Read more →The start of 2018 brings plenty of new changes to the U.S. tax code for individuals and businesses. One such change involves new limitations on state and local tax deductions for individuals. Beginning in 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“FCJA”) now generally limits an individual’s ability to claim federal itemized
Read more →The North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States of America, Canada and Mexico is active since January 1994. Even though it has proven to be very helpful for the economy in the region, treaties do get old. In contrast to modern treaties, it lacks rules catered
Read more →A program called Lyrebird promises to create a digital voice using your own voice, with just one minute of recording you. The startup company lists speech synthesis for people who have lost their voice as one of the possible applications of the program. The program, named after the Australian
Read more →More than 3 million people have utilized the groundbreaking technology provided by Ancestry.com’s DNA test for ancestry and genealogy, AncestryDNA, with an increase in use in the last couple of years. With the hopes of discovering forgotten family histories, ethnic backgrounds, and genetic predispositions, users have willingly agreed to the
Read more →In January, President Donald Trump visited Davos, Switzerland,and gave a pro-growth, pro-America message at the World Economic Forum where he met with the heads of some of the biggest multinational companies in the world. The business leaders represent some of the largest companies in Europe across multiple sectors of the economy, from financial services
Read more →You may have noticed new TSA signs at the airport recently. It reads “starting January 22, 2018, you will need a driver’s license or ID form a state compliant with the REAL ID Act, astate that has extension for compliance, or an alternate ID to fly.” What does that even
Read more →The case involved whether a trademark owner should lose rights in instances when the trademark is frequently used as a verb such as in the phrase “Google it.” The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that “googled” may have become synonymous for Internet searching, but that does not mean that
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