Walks like a duck, downloads like a pirate, lashes like a storm? Must be…

… Wednesday’s JD Supra Buzz - what we learned today, FYI:

It ain’t over until you download the illegal copy of the fat lady singing (Is That Legal?) 

Want to keep employees off company property when they’re not working? No dice, says the NLRB (Miller & Martin) 

The time to start preparing for a hurricane is, well, long before the waves are lapping up on your doorstep (McCarter & English) 

If it walks like a duck, and talk like a duck, it’s actually probably a direct claim (White & Case) 

If poker isn’t “illegal gambling,” what happens to the charges against the former owner of Full Tilt Poker? (Ian Imrich) 

Newt Gingrich has settled his lawsuit with Survivor’s Frankie Sullivan (Mintz Levin) 

Is the student loan crisis akin to the mortgage crisis? The CFPB’s Student Loan Ombudsman seems to think so (Ballard Spahr) 

A new California bill wants to give courts the ability to determine which children in the state should have more than two legal parents (Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard) 

The reach of New York’s antitrust laws doesn’t extend outside the country (Cadwalader) 

Russia has officially joined the WTO. But US companies won’t be able to benefit from Russia’s lower trade barriers and import tariffs unless the US changes its laws (Armstrong Teasdale) 

Do business online? You need to read this Top 10 list (Wahab & Medenica) 

Do students need law school rankings to make informed choices? Not if the ranking system causes schools to lie (Bloomberg Law) 

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