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6 Feb 2012, 8:24 am
The panel will address issues such as collateral estoppel and repeat class actions, class action waivers, white collar exemptions, attorney fees, and the upcoming Brinker decision. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 5:08 am
Patent infringement cases are less of an uphill climb than, say, anti-trust, drug or medical device product liability, or any claims dependent upon a class action, all of which have been under attack by the Supreme Court for years. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 2:25 am
The Bottom Line: The Twombly/Iqbal pleading standards should not apply to answers in class action cases. [read post]
5 Feb 2012, 4:32 pm
What if some classes of people were above the law? [read post]
5 Feb 2012, 7:55 am
Trade mark registrations afford you the exclusive right to use the mark in connection to those classes of goods under the mark. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 1:04 pm
The Department of Defense temporary halted the sales of products containing 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA) within military facilities after recent reports showed two soldier deaths and additional adverse health effects in other service members may be related to use of the dietary supplements.The Department of Defense's moratorium will remain in effect pending further review of relevant scientific evidence and reported events.The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health… [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 9:59 am
The court contrasted the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which was intended to curtail lawyer-driven securities fraud class actions, with the absence of any such statute curtailing antitrust class actions. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 6:06 am
Many believe that Lee simply got scared that his defense of the transit proposal might cost him his reelection in the Republican primary (also on July 31). [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 6:00 am
I think this case also demonstrates that the importance of giving careful thought at the class certification stage to how the defendant would try a class action and all of the defenses you would want to raise at trial. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 4:14 am
" In a truly bizarre interesting case from California, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, barring* a company from terminating a contract with its customer in alleged retaliation for a wage and hour class action filed by the company's employees. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 3:16 am
Another 2,200 potentially affected veterans didn’t opt in to the class-action lawsuit, though they might take individual legal action. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 8:37 pm
After some years of unsettled law and conflicting decisions, it looks as though after June plaintiff and defense counsel, and their clients, will receive some long-awaited certainty regarding the ability of indirect purchasers to commence price-fixing class actions and the status of the passing-on defense in Canada. ___________________ For more see: Canadian Supreme Court Grants Leave in Pro-Sys/Microsoft and Sun-Rype Indirect Purchaser Competition/Antitrust… [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 1:27 pm
Many believe that Lee simply got scared that his defense of the transit proposal might cost him his reelection in the Republican primary (also on July 31). [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 6:23 am
Here are the leading legal headlines for Thursday, February 02, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: 12 More Law Schools Sued Over Reporting of Law Grad Employment and Salary Stats Strip club not liable after man contracts HIV from dancer, court told - Vancouver Sun Former Intern Sues Hearst Over Unpaid Work and Hopes to Create a Class Action Update on Privacy Law OBA set to host country's largest legal education conference New York Prosecutors Subpoena Occupy Protester’s… [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 6:09 am
The UCLA Health Systems database was breached and a class action filed. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 11:52 pm
Why is China judged by the actions of a mere handful of Party officials, almost all of whom are now dead? [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 6:51 pm
Often when we hear these stories, it’s from the middle-class folks who never imagined that they would wind up in jail, and so hadn’t given much thought to it. [read post]
Review of the Effects of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act on Third Party Participation Applicants
1 Feb 2012, 9:15 am
“New” Defense: Prior Commercial Use The United States has not traditionally had an express prior user defense or experimental user defense, but such defenses have effectively always been present. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 6:54 am
Pa.) will handle pre-trial issues in the MDL (approximately twenty such class-action suits have been filed thus far), which will feature interesting questions of pre-trial discovery, ERISA plan rights, and how to create a class for medical monitoring. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 5:06 am
If ACMIE is not your interest, then there are many other groups that will also do breakout sessions (ranging from recreational equipment to fire/casualty, mass torts, class actions, and everything in between).All the details for the conference, including a brochure of the agenda, registration, etc., can be found here.A cut and paste of the information from DRI's website follows:DRI’s Product Liability Conference is indispensible for anyone who defends product… [read post]
