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16 Feb 2012, 8:54 am by Lovechilde
Before Citizens United, the maximum amount one person could give to a candidate was $2,500; for a political action committee, $5,000; for a political party committee, $30,800. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 7:42 am by Peter Rost
Rost has experience with class action, product liability, false claims/qui tam & criminal cases. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 5:40 am by David Post
  It authorizes courts to “seize” the domain names used by the offending sites via actions in rem, actions against “property” (i.e., the domain name) and not the persons owning or using the property, thereby avoiding the messy problem of trying to assert personal jurisdiction over the foreign actors or the foreign servers. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 9:58 am by Rebecca Tushnet
  Under California choice of law rules, the class action proponent must first show that California has “significant contact or significant aggregation of contacts” to the claims of each class member. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 11:34 pm by Fathima Cader
In an email, DiBranco stated that “the petition itself has done better than many other actions we’ve emailed on,” missing the fact that prevalence of Islamophobia in North America is precisely what makes their petition possible and so popular. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 11:02 am by Adam Zimmerman
Is the American-style class action going global? [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 7:22 am by Adam Benforado
  It’s worth us all spending more time to consider the incongruity between the rational actor model and how real humans behave, the incredible power of conscience on our actions, and the ways in which “unselfish prosocial behavior” may be encouraged in society. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 2:14 am by Sean Wajert
The Fifth Circuit recently upheld the dismissal of putative class actions filed by Mississippi and Alabama residents against the federal government alleging trailers provided to Hurricane Katrina-impacted citizens contained hazardous levels of formaldehyde. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 1:32 am by Kevin LaCroix
  Following the filing of the securities class action lawsuits, additional plaintiffs filed five derivative lawsuits in California state court, seeking indemnification from the individual defendants for any expenses the company incurs in the class actions. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 12:52 pm by Ronald F. Wick
Mazza does, however, strike yet another in a series of recent blows to consumer class actions. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 3:12 am by Broc Romanek
Not only is it abundantly clear that the vast majority of those in this country - and around the world for that matter, remember Britain's actions just this week - are angry about increasing pay disparity, but quite a few experts believe our country's ability to continue to be a high achiever is at risk because the rich are getting richer at the expense of the middle class. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 6:34 am by admin
On a global level, the price fixing agreement between airlines, which was established during meetings at the International Air Transport Association, continues with more decisions coming out of Australia, United States, UK as well as New Zealand. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 6:27 am by Adam Zimmerman
Should courts apply the same level of judicial scrutiny as class actions, or a more deferential one in light of the public actors involved? [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 2:46 am by Editor Charlie
  (Sort of like “bad old YouTube” that got $1.8 billion or so for the infringers and paid zero to the creators out of that sales price–being sued in a class action led by the Premier League and also by Viacom–and “groovy new YouTube” which has something of a détente with rich rights holders but which more or less ignores indies.) [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 12:25 pm
This was because a "joint venture" would subject state actors to the requirements of the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 10:14 am
The these trade marks were opposed by Mr Shaw on the basis of his earlier 'Elvisly Yours' trade mark in several classes including Class 3. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 8:00 am
There's plenty of anger to go around in the friendly skies these days - from actor Alec Baldwin to right here at Jacksonville International Airport. [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 1:23 pm by Leonard Jernigan
Middle class workers who have prudently saved all of their lives can end up on the edge of bankruptcy. [read post]