Red Shoes, Defining Fraud, Religious Cheerleaders? Can Only Be…

… Tuesday’s JD Supra Buzz. Here’s what we learned in law today:

Harvey Lewin, Christian Louboutin’s lawyer in its red sole trademark dispute with YSL, calls the latest appeals court ruling a “game changer” (now if I could just get my hands on some of those shoes…) (Bloomberg Law) 

It’s fourth down and five years to go for the NFL referees’ defined benefit plan (Mintz Levin) 

A lawsuit seeking to force the Delaware River Basin Commission into producing an environmental report addressing the impact of fracking on the Basin was dismissed (Cullen and Dykman) 

The U.K. just launched a “smarter and cheaper process” for small businesses to litigate small intellectual property claims (Foley Hoag) 

All these years the government’s been prosecuting criminal fraud, and they still haven’t defined what it is? (Morvillo Abramowitz) 

LIBOR should be reformed, not replaced, says head of the UK’s Financial Services Authority Martin Wheatley (Thompson Coburn) 

Q: What types of contract stay in effect after they have expired? A: Collective bargaining agreements, according to the NLRB (Proskauer) 

Gay footballers need not apply: North Dakota College of Science football player was kicked off his team for kissing another man (Cullen & Dykman) 

Does Ur Biz Let EEs BYOD? You’ll want to read this, then (Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti) 

The Department of Justice has completed its year-long initiative to go after mortgage fraud (BuckleySandler) 

The Renal Care Group just saved $82 million thanks to the Sixth Circuit (King & Spalding) 

Should Texas high school cheerleaders be permitted to display banners with religious messages at games? (Franczek Radelet) 

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