Mason v. Nature's Innovation, Inc., 2013 WL 1969957 (S.D. Cal.) Mason sued NI based on his purchase of Naturasil skin tag remover, based on representations on the label and website that Naturasil was an exclusive and 100% natural formula that…

FieldTurf USA Inc. v. TenCate Thiolon Middle East, 2013 WL 1963918 (N.D. Ga.) While this was mainly a breach of contract action, the court had occasion to resolve various Lanham Act false advertising/trademark and business tort issues. …

Gutierrez v. Wells Fargo Bank, No. 3:07-cv-05923 (N.D. Cal. May 14, 2013) Previous coverage here (9th Circuit) and here (earlier district court opinion).  Plaintiffs challenged Wells Fargo’s “high-to-low” posting…

Let’s not rush to judgment as to motivation of the terrorist attack in Boston. There are Chechens that are pro-Moscow; Chechens who favor independence; Chechens who favor autonomy within the Russian Federations; and Chechen religious…

People should always be very careful in checking their credit card and bank statements as well as invoices of all types. It is amazing how frequently unexplained and unjustified fees appear on the aforementioned documents. It is often the…

To make progress in combating corruption we must address immediately: (i) the revolving door issue; (ii) our national allergy to higher taxes to fund the recruitment and retention of competent and dedicated people able to bring successfully…

The Department of Justice's Economic Analysis of Prison Rape by Lisa Heinzerling Despite initial signs suggesting a different path, the Obama Administration has promoted the role of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory policy as fiercely as…

by Lisa Heinzerling When an agency defends over three decades of inaction on an important problem by saying that acting would take too long, one hopes a judge reviewing the agency's inaction will see through the pretense. This is exactly what…

(The following post corrects two small factual errors in the original post.) by Lisa Heinzerling Today, President Obama announced that he had asked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the final National Ambient Air Quality Standard…

The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department has imposed an interim suspension based on the following: On January 19, 2010, respondent pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated harassment in the second degree (Penal…

The Wisconsin Suprteme Court has ordered a suspension of two years of an attorney convicted of money laundering. The attorney's misconduct involved money due to a client pursuant to a marital settlement agreement. The attorney held payments…

The Georgia Supreme Court accepted the voluntary license surrender of an attorney who was employed as in-house counsel for a corporation that allowed him to do outside work as long as he did not do so on company time and...