Cubans queue to by food outside a store in Havana, on January 6, 2022. – Spending up to eight hours standing still, sometimes under a scorching sun, without a public bathroom or water to drink, and, to top it all, with the latent tension of being able to return home with an empty backpack: Welcome...Read More

For all the talk of big money and big business and their role in national politics, it’s actually relatively rare for national political issues to intersect with the mundane world of commercial law. That changed last week when a development entity controlled by (and named after) Donald Trump, the poll-leading republican presidential candidate and reality...Read More

By: Alan J. Schaeffer The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently granted Dunkin’ Donuts Franchising, LLC a preliminary injunction, enjoining a franchisee from using Dunkin’ Donuts’ trademarks, or operating a competing business within 5 miles during the pendency of Dunkin’ Donuts’ action against the franchisee for breach of contract and trademark infringement....Read More

Tayman Lane Chaverri LLP is pleased to announce that it prevailed at trial on behalf of its client, a minor child from Honduras, who escaped persecution by fleeing the country alone to seek reunification with her birth mother.  In a landmark family law and immigration case, TLC partner Katie Lane Chaverri overcame the procedural and practical...Read More

Businesspeople ask for binding arbitration provisions to be worked into their contracts in the belief that arbitration is preferable to traditional litigation in terms of speed, cost, and efficiency of dispute resolution.  Whether or not that belief proves true is usually a function of the facts and circumstances of the particular situation.  However, as Judge...Read More

by Katie Lane ChaverriTayman Lane Chaverri LLP; Washington, DC (reprinted with the permission of the American Bankruptcy Institute; original article may be accessed here: http://www.abiworld.org/committees/newsletters/cftf/vol10num4/blow.html On Feb. 22, 2013, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the rulings of the U.S. Bankruptcy and District Courts for the Southern District of New York and...Read More

Clients often like arbitration provisions because of a belief, sometimes true and sometimes not, that binding arbitration provides a quicker, more efficient, and less expensive alternative to formal litigation.  Whether this is true or not is dependent on, among other things, an understanding and analysis of the facts and circumstances underlying the particular transaction in...Read More

With contractor bids for the Silver Line Phase II project required to be submitted by the end of the day on Friday, April 19, citizens groups, unions, and other interested parties are beginning to ramp up their criticism of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s intention to award the contract to the lowest bidder among five...Read More

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld the dismissal of lawsuits brought by Madoff investors against the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. securities regulator. While the court found that the SEC’s actions and inactions were “regrettable”, the court ultimately held that the SEC was protected...Read More