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Do online review sites like Yelp.com have to comply with court orders directed at people who post false and defamatory reviews about others? An appellate court in Los Angeles has said yes.

Every artist or entertainer wants an audience. Foreign artists and entertainers visiting the United States can be sure that at least one group of Americans is watching the success of their performances: agents of the Internal Revenue Service.

The first advice any investor gets is to diversify so gains on some have the potential to offset losses on others. But one very effective estate planning tactic, called a GRAT, relies on segregating, not combining, your assets.

If you are flying a plane, the autopilot is a great device to help keep you on course during the flight. However, when a pilot’s expertise is critical in performing certain tasks – such as takeoffs, landings, monitoring air traffic – an autopilot is never a substitute for human judgment. In the purchase, sale, and leasing of real property, the industry has created its own version of the autopilot: fill-in-the-blank forms prepared by non-legal real estate trade associations.

An important change in the criteria that the courts use to establish the date of separation, “the end of the community,” has far-reaching impacts for couples that intend to separate or have already separated.

In rentals that are governed by rent control, courts will not look favorably at a notice and later attempt to evict if the notice appears to be pretext to conceal the true purpose of the eviction.