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You may have noticed the new photo banner at the top of the Business Law Blog.
Well, we’ve installed a new, cleaner “theme” for the BLBlog that provides an opportunity to post a picture.
The banner is designed to represent all parts of the commonwealth. Here’s a rundown (from left to right):
• Northern Virginia – the […]

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Sometimes state agents and even federal revenooers bust up stills making illegal moonshine. Sometimes, vice squads raid crack parlors, brothels and other houses of ill repute.
In Kentucky, they’ve gone to court to crack down on illegal online gambling.
Yep, the commonwealth of Kentucky now owns the domain names of numerous illegal gambling sites (141 to be […]

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Can radio station owners agree not to compete with each other by using the same station format? The Federal Communications Commission says, “No” in a case arising out of stations in Lynchburg and Bedford.
Gary Burns sold his Lynchburg talk-radio station to Centennial Broadcasting. As part of the deal, Burns agreed not to operate […]

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Financial software maker Razorsight has had a busy week. First it announced $9 million in new venture capital from Sierra Venture Partners. Then came word, through Washington Business Journal, that it would spend half of that to settle a pending lawsuit in Virginia federal court alleging trade secret violations.  The plaintiff, Fairfax-based TEOCO, […]

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Richmond-based Circuit City will appeal a Federal Communications Commission fine for failure to put notices on analog televisions that the sets will not receive digital transmissions by themselves. Next February, all broadcasters will be required to send digital signals; analog TVs will need a converter box. The FCC fined Circuit City $712,000 last month. The […]

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