The Supreme Court issued an 8-1, precedential decision in Scott v. Harris, effectively establishing a flat rule that a police officer in a high-speed chase that poses a threat to the safety of others does not violate the Fourth Amendment…
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As the Blog of the Legal Times reports, today was just another day in court for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the madam charged with running an illegal prostitution ring that included some of the nation’s most powerful men as its clients….
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So much for the predictions of the demise of Am Law 100 law firms due to lack of work-life balance, diversity, associate attrition and other issues purportedly troubling today’s firms. Apparently, these issues are barely a blip on the firms’…
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This week, you can take the fast track around the blawg-o-sphere with the race-themed Blawg Review #106, hosted at Iowa attorney Brett Trout’s Blawg IT. Some great pit stops include Enrico Schaefer’s post discussing how the billable hour puts a…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 found that Microsoft Corp. was not guilty of infringing an AT&T Corp. patent because even though Microsoft supplied a master disk that was used in the overseas duplication of accused software, the disk itself did not qualify as a “component” that would make Microsoft liable […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Calling the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals test for obviousness “narrow” and “rigid,” the U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 unanimously reversed findings that a claimed invention by respondent Teleflex Inc. was valid (KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. et al., No. 04-1350, U.S. Sup.).
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A federal judge on April 10 remanded a disability benefits dispute to the plan administrator for further consideration, finding that the insurer failed to consider treating physician reports that the claimant could not be in a position where she would be exposed to the public (Elaine K. Langley v. Aetna Life […]
BOSTON - Three Bankers Associations and three individual banks filed a proposed class action lawsuit against TJX Cos. on April 25 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, seeking more than $5 million for TJX’s alleged wrongful actions that resulted in customers’ personal information being stolen; the case was immediately consolidated with […]
JACKSON, Miss. - A Mississippi trial court erred in not levying sanctions against a law firm that was found in the federal silica multidistrict litigation to have knowingly submitted silicosis diagnoses that were questionable at best, defendants in two of the former MDL cases told the state Supreme Court in a March 20 brief (Choctaw, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - An Italian company’s expropriation claim against Bangladesh under a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) is within the jurisdiction of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the competence of the tribunal selected to hear the dispute, according to a decision issued by the tribunal (Saipem S.p.A. v. Bangladesh, ICSID Case […]