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Posted by mikimove 10 hours ago (http://www.law.com)
More than 100 lawyers squeezed into a courtroom on Thursday in Idaho to argue before a panel of seven judges about which U.S. courthouse should host the massive litigation over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation appeared receptive to appointing more than one judge. Meanwhile, lawyers pressing claims against Toyota Motor over its recall of Prius hy Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 1 day 19 hours ago (http://www.law.com)
The first personal injury lawsuit involving the chemical dispersant Corexit 9500 has surfaced in Alabama federal court, where two Gulf Coast residents and property owners claim BP has dumped millions of gallons of toxic chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico to disperse and sink crude oil. The plaintiffs allege one method of applying Corexit 9500 -- spraying it from airplanes in the middle of the nigh Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 2 days ago (http://www.law.com)
When a top-level executive suddenly quits to take a job at a competing firm, the courts may block the start of the new employment if the evidence shows that such an injunction is needed to prevent a likely misappropriation of trade secrets, the 3rd Circuit has ruled. The ruling came in Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc. v. Botticella, in which the court considered whether the manufacturer of Thomas' brand E Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 3 days ago (http://www.law.com)
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday reached a $23.4 million settlement with General Electric over charges the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. GE, along with two subsidiaries and two other companies that have since been acquired by GE, allegedly made illegal kickbacks totaling $3.6 million in the form of cash, computer equipment, medical supplies and services to t Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 3 days ago (http://www.law.com)
The fight over law school tenure has been bubbling under the surface for years, and now the committee reviewing the American Bar Association's accreditation standards has floated a proposal that would eliminate the term "tenure" from ABA standards covering job security and academic freedom. Organizations that represent law professors and clinical faculty have lined up in opposition to the changes Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 4 days ago (http://www.law.com)
As lawyer for several major banks, including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup, David J. Stern handles 20 percent of all foreclosure cases in the nation's fourth-most-populous state. It's from Stern's law firm that well over 100,000 Floridians have received the dreaded notice to pay up or face losing their homes. While the foreclosure business has been good to Stern, however, controvers Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 5 days ago (http://www.law.com)
What should the bench do to help lawyers navigate EDD disputes? Courts need to borrow from a 7th Circuit program, which states that "zealous representation of a client is NOT compromised by conducting discovery in a cooperative manner," says an attorney on the circuit's EDD committee. Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 5 days ago (http://www.law.com)
Members of Congress are still looking for a way to authorize a couple of billion-dollar agreements that would settle litigation involving the federal government and minority groups. The House of Representatives had included authority for the settlements in a bill authorizing supplemental war funding. That bill passed the House July 1. But senators rejected that idea Thursday in the latest setback Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 6 days ago (http://www.law.com)
A group of plaintiffs attorneys active in oil spill litigation are targeting the administrator of BP's $20 billion compensation fund, calling on him to disclose how much the oil giant is paying him and to stop discouraging victims from seeking legal representation. The attorneys worry that fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg, an iconic figure who managed the 9/11 compensation fund, is a tool of B Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 7 days ago (http://www.law.com)
The Bratz doll is back in business, thanks to the 9th Circuit. A panel on Thursday vacated Mattel's hard-won injunction on behalf of its Barbie doll, finding the remedy too broad. The litigation arose because Bratz's creator, Carter Bryant, worked for Mattel before decamping for the competition. The district court erred when it found Mattel's employment agreement covered the idea for Bratz, wrote Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 8 days ago (http://www.law.com)
The special prosecutor tapped to investigate potential criminal violations tied to the removal of nine U.S. Attorneys has wrapped up the probe with a finding that no criminal charges be filed, the Justice Department has announced. The investigation found that the evidence "did not demonstrate any prosecutable criminal offense" was committed with regard to the removal of U.S. Attorney David Iglesi Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 9 days ago (http://www.law.com)
Law school students faced one of the roughest hiring seasons ever this summer, as firms cut their summer classes by an average of 44 percent, according to the 2010 Summer Hiring Survey in The American Lawyer. The 114 firms that responded to the survey hired an average of 31 summer associates this year, down from last year's average of 55 associates. Some of the biggest cuts came from the top of T Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 9 days ago (http://www.law.com)
Law schools hire more openly liberal professors than openly conservative ones, but the plum jobs at the most prestigious schools don't appear to be going solely to the liberals. That's the conclusion reached by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law who analyzed the ideology of recently hired law professors. Their study, "Ideological Diversity and Law School Hiring Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 10 days ago (http://www.law.com)
Elena Kagan continued along the path today to confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, clearing with ease a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee. After a two-hour debate, the Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 to recommend Kagan's confirmation, as all Democrats supported her and all Republicans but one opposed her. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was the only committee member to cross party lines. Kaga Read More »
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Posted by mikimove 11 days ago (http://www.law.com)
The financial reform package creates a new whistleblower program with potentially huge cash rewards for individuals who provide information about securities law violations to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC will pay whistleblowers cash rewards of between 10 percent and 30 percent of any monetary sanctions in excess of $1 million that the government recove Read More »
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