Monthly Archives: May 2022
Michael Pike Featured On WPTV Discussing Boat Safety
Pike & Lustig Managing Partner Michael Pike appeared on WPTV this week to discuss boat safety ahead of Memorial Day weekend in honor of national boater safety week. Pike took a news crew as well as a few special passengers to cover the important topic as 60 people died last year in boating accidents…. Read More »
Be Careful When Drafting And Approving Corporate Minutes
When your company has meetings, you may already know that you need to take minutes of the meetings. Minutes are written recordings of what happens in your meetings, and while there is no official way to do them correctly or incorrectly, there definitely are things to keep in mind when taking corporate minutes. Be… Read More »
Can You Require Your Employees To Get Vaccinated For COVID?
If you are an employer in Florida, you may be thinking of requiring your employees to be vaccinated against COVID. However, there is a lot of confusion about whether this is legal and how it can be implemented. Here are some guidelines on Florida Law, related to the mandatory vaccination of employees. Employees Must… Read More »
What You Can (And Cannot) Recover In An FDUTPA Lawsuit
The FDUTPA—Florida’s Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act—provides powerful legal remedies to consumers and businesses harmed by an unjust business practice. The statute allows individuals, companies, and organizations to pursue financial compensation for their damages. That being said, there are some limits in place for financial recovery under the law. In this blog… Read More »
Is The Burden Of Proof Lower In A Civil RICO Lawsuit In Florida?
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a law that imposed liability for harm caused by illicit racketeering activity. The RICO Act has both criminal and civil statutory elements. A defendant could be arrested and charged with a criminal RICO offense and/or a defendant could face a civil RICO lawsuit from a… Read More »
Netflix Shareholders Sues Company Over Slumping Subscription Numbers
On May 4th, 2022, Reuters reported that a group representing Netflix shareholders has filed a lawsuit against the company arguing that corporate leadership made material misrepresentations about the firm’s ability to keep growing its subscriber base. The shareholder lawsuit was filed in the federal court in the Northern District of California. Here, our West… Read More »
Anticipatory Repudiation: Breaching A Contract Before Its Breached
You probably know that if you don’t live up to the terms of a contract, or you fail to do what a contract requires that you can be sued for breach of contract. But what if you just say that you don’t intend to comply with or that you can’t comply with a contract?… Read More »
What Is A Transformative Work?
Copyright law can be confusing, and one area where there is a lot of confusion is the extent to which you can alter or change an existing copyright and make it yours. In other words, when does a work that you create become a “new” work that is yours, giving you all the rights… Read More »
Pitfalls When Signing Settlement Agreements
Let’s say that you have a legal issue or disagreement. You were thinking of getting an attorney involved, but it turns out that the other side has agreed to settle your case, for terms that you agree with. Luckily, you avoided having to get an attorney—just sign the settlement agreement, and your problems are… Read More »
Lawsuits For Meddling With Someone Else’s Contracts Or Business Relationships
Let’s say that you have a business—for our example, assume that you install and fix sound systems. You get lucky, and you sign a major deal with a used car company; your company will be the company that will install, repair, and refurbish all of the sound systems in the cars that the used… Read More »
