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10 Oct 2007, 7:35 am
The United States Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in a case that presents the Court with the opportunity to broaden the class of potential defendants in private securities class actions, which would substantially increase litigation exposure for corporate America. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 1:11 am
After a jury returned a $145 billion punitive damage verdict, the Florida Supreme Court tossed the record award and dismantled the class. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 6:52 am
Clement filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court siding with non-issuer defendants in a securities class action case. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 12:51 am
It would have certainly strengthened the general atmosphere of cynicism against the political class. [read post]
9 Sep 2007, 1:34 pm
The state law of sovereign immunity has no application to a federal civil rights action; the state and its agencies cannot be sued in federal court because of the Eleventh Amendment, but state actors can be and are sued individually under 42 U.S.C. 1983 - but not for negligence, and in their individual capacities they have the defense of qualified immunity. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 2:47 am
Wilder, No. 06-60711 In a to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks and two of its employees, dismissal of claims against one defendant is affirmed where defendant was entitled to qualified immunity because his actions, in the form of pressuring and assisting plaintiff in committing a charged crime, even to the extent that they constituted entrapment under state law, did not by themselves constitute a violation of a… [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 1:50 pm
Still, much of the class action criticism dwells on attorney motivations and miscreant state-court judges. [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 1:00 pm
State Farm's profits have doubled since 1996 to $4.8 billion in 2006. [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 6:00 am
State Farm's profits have doubled since 1996 to $4.8 billion in 2006. [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 6:00 am
State Farm's profits have doubled since 1996 to $4.8 billion in 2006. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 7:59 am
As I demonstrate, distinctive features of tort law can be stated but these cannot be reduced to some unitary theory. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 5:53 am
The district court agreed, dismissing the class action without leave to amend. [read post]
31 Jul 2007, 2:31 pm
Then there are the real-life reports that manage to make these fictional scenarios look reasonable: the senior partner who throws law books at associates, the criminal defense attorney found naked with an adolescent in the court's conference room, the litigator who admitted to altering documents in a consumer class action, the tax lawyer who bribed IRS officials to accept tax positions, the partner whose language in… [read post]
21 Jul 2007, 9:25 am
It's a touching combination of faith in action and your junior high school play. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 5:01 am
The conservatives interpret Brown as the death knell of state-imposed racial segregation, whereas the liberals read Brown as giving state actors license to racially balance classrooms even if there has been not state action causing the separation. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 10:04 am
" Securities Litigation The lawmakers expressed widely divergent opinions on securities class-action lawsuits. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 4:26 pm
However, regulated actors should still have access to federal courts, as the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 generally supplanted individual removal procedures in cases such as this one. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 5:15 am
But much of the disclosure litigated in securities class action suits is made by the company. [read post]
30 May 2007, 11:48 pm
Never before have we endorsed administrative action whose sole purpose was to preempt state law rather than to implement a statutory command. [read post]
24 May 2007, 10:40 am
Nothing in this Act shall apply to any of the following:(1) Actions or transactions specifically authorized by laws administered by any regulatory body or officer acting under statutory authority of this State or the United States.815 Ill. [read post]
