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26 Oct 2008, 8:27 pm
Professor Cox: Professor Cox challenged the assertion that private securities litigation provides no deterrence, stating that it is not enough to look at litigation defendants alone to determine whether securities litigation has a deterrent effect. [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 4:33 pm
Unbelievably, they are still lobbying for Wall Street tax breaks, the repeal of the regulations under Sarbanes-Oxley, and for further restrictions on class-action lawsuits. [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 1:03 am
In addition to bringing about peace, changing the image of the United States across the world, and restoring economic greatness for the middle class, Obama's election would rid society of obstacles to racial equality -- at least according to actor-turned-sociologist Alec Baldwin. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 2:07 am
THE EVIL DEAD Budget: $375,000 Before going on to direct the Spider-Man films (all of which feature cameo appearances from Bruce Campbell, who plays The Evil Dead’s badass action hero Ash), writer/director Sam Raimi developed a massive cult following with this ultra-violent and gory horror film, which later went on to spawn two equally excellent sequels. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 9:11 pm
If that's right, law professors and law classes may be a whole lot less important to the current uses of school rankings than some of us might like to think we are: After all, a focal point - for example, a prominent structure, like the Empire State Building in New York City -- is important in Schelling's example not because of what it is, but solely because of the people its prominence attracts. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 9:08 pm
WalterIn January 2007, approximately twenty-five plaintiffs brought five separate but nearly identical putative class actions against more than 100 different defendants, alleging violations of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 8:25 pm
Goldner, No. 07-10711 Dismissal of a debt-collection action as time-barred is affirmed where a state statute tolling the limitations period against out-of-state defendants imposed burdens on interstate commerce in excess of its local benefits, and thereby violated the Commerce Clause. [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 5:23 pm
In May 2005, Centerprise brought an antitrust class action lawsuit on behalf of itself and other similarly-situated foreign purchasers of DRAM alleging that defendants engaged in a global conspiracy to fix DRAM prices, raising the price of DRAM to customers in both the United States and foreign countries. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 2:14 pm
" U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, September 03, 2008 Villegas v Gilroy Garlic Festival, No. 05-15725 "In a civil rights action against the City of Gilroy and the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association, alleging First Amendment violations involving the festival's dress code, summary judgment to defendants and a holding of no state action or municipal liability are affirmed where: 1) the festival association is not a state actor; and 2) the… [read post]
23 Aug 2008, 1:23 am
You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: DRM for streaming music dies a quiet death: (Electronic Frontier Foundation), (Techdirt) CAFC decides Apotex and Impax infringed AstraZeneca’s Prilosec patents: (Law360), (Patent Prospector), (Patent Docs), (GenericsWeb), CAFC upholds lower court’s decision finding USPTO was within its rights to subject a Cooper patent to… [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 4:03 pm
This means that he argues legalised hegemony did not operate during the Cold War (this is something to which I will return later, as I feel it creates a serious weakness in his work): Legalised hegemony is distinguishable from superpower dominance in that the former requires a commitment to long-term collective action together with a formal constitutional validation of these collective goals and processes. [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 1:00 pm
It may also become the basis for regulatory agency actions such as securities market regulators and trade or consumer commissions like the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, or state consumer protection agencies in the United States. [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 10:37 pm
Yet overall living standards there never reached the levels currently enjoyed by China's growing middle classes. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 9:20 am
O’Donnell represented consumers in the class action lawsuit against Sempra Energy and its two utilities. [read post]
15 Jul 2008, 5:59 pm
A majority of the court, in a July 9 decision affirming the "indecent exposure" conviction of Richard Moss, State v. [read post]
13 Jul 2008, 12:07 am
It is acted out by balloon-breasted models and actors with unflagging erections, then rented for $4 a night at the corner video store. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 12:24 am
Anything not falling within this definition is classed as a civilian object and so is immune from an attack. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 6:26 pm
Bank of America, N.A., No. 07-3565 Dismissal of plaintiff's class action claims as preempted by the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs alleged the same injuries as claimed by parties in a prior Eighth Circuit case, wherein the issue of preemption had already been ruled upon; and 2) plaintiffs failed to distinguish their case from the previous case. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 10:30 am
Civil unions seem like a poor relation to marriage, a second-class status for second class citizens. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 6:24 pm
In my view, state action that demeans anyone it affects violates Equal Protection. [read post]
