Gregory Zakarian is a restaurant rock star. He appears regularly on The Food Network; owns the well-reviewed Lambs Club restaurant in the Chatwal Hotel off Times Square as well as the National Bar and Dining Rooms in the Benjamin Hotel in Midtown Manhattan; he oversees food and beverages at the luxurious Water Club at the …
Monthly Archive: April 2011
Apr 20 2011
NY Court Finds Loose Affilitiation of CyberCriminals to be “Enterprise” Under Organized Crime Act
When you think of the phrase “criminal enterprise,” certain images immediately pop in your head. Vito Corleone, Scarface, Joe Pesci. But NY courts have long expanded the term “criminal enterprise” to include any band of criminals working within “an ascertainable structure.” NY Penal Law §460.10(3) defines criminal enterprise as “a group of persons sharing a …
Apr 17 2011
US Shutdown of Poker Sites Presents Major Legal Challenges
Online poker fans woke up yesterday morning to their worst nightmare: The US Dept of Justice seized the domains of the top three online pokers sites -Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars and Absolute Poker. The DOJ hit the owners of the sites and the sites themselves with a criminal indictment charging money laundering, bank fraud …
Apr 17 2011
Both Album, Individually Issued Track Are Held a ‘Work’ for Damages Purposes
In a stunning blow to Music Sharing site LimeWire, a federal judge ruled today that music companies are entitled to an award for each infringed recording on the LimeWire system when plaintiffs made that recording available as an individual track, even if the user downloaded the tracks at once as part of an album. This …
Apr 12 2011
Appeals Panel Upholds Applying Social Host Law to 18 Year Olds
Nassau County passed the first-ever Social Host Law in New York State. The law prohibits anyone over the age of 18 from allowing alcohol consumption by anyone under 21 years of age on premises that they own, rent or otherwise control. Before the law came into effect in 2007, a person would only get arrested …