Sedona Conference founder Richard Braman wants law schools to teach lawyers to collaborate during e-discovery and drop the gladiatorial style of litigation to deal with mounting volumes of data. Less adversarial EDD is the goal of his Cooperation Proclamation.
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H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal, partners at Paul Weiss, advise that companies that use social networks should ensure they are prepared to preserve, collect and produce social networking data for cases and that their electronic communications policies cover social networking.
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MARSHALL, TEXAS - In what some court observers are calling the largest patent infringement verdict in U.S. history, a Texas federal jury on June 29 returned a $1.67 billion verdict in a case involving competing arthritis drugs (Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc., et al. v. Abbott Laboratories, et al., No. 2:07-cv-139, E.D. Texas).
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Labor unions and other associations lacking Proposition 64’s “injury-in-fact” requirement cannot bring representative unfair competition law (UCL) claims as the assignees of their injured members, the California Supreme Court held June 29 (Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1756, AFL-CIO, et al. v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, First Transit Inc., et […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An employee’s representative unfair competition law (UCL) claim for unpaid wages and other Labor Code violations must satisfy class action requirements unless the action seeks civil penalties under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, the California Supreme Court held June 29 (Jose A. Arias v. Superior Court of San […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 ruled 5-4 that the City of New Haven, Conn., violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discarding test results of objective examinations used to identify the best-qualified candidates for promotion based on statistical racial disparity, reversing the Second Circuit U.S. Court […]
MINNEAPOLIS - On June 18, after hearing four days of oral arguments, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota quickly returned a verdict against defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset in the closely watched and highly publicized retrial of copyright infringement charges related to her sharing of music files on the KaZaA online […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A coalition of companies that own copyrights in movies and television programs lost their bid to challenge the legality of a cable television company’s “Remote-Storage DVR” (RS-DVR) on June 29 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied their petition for certiorari without comment (Cable News Network Inc., et al. v. CSC Holdings Inc. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 affirmed a federal appellate court’s issuance of an injunction prohibiting New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo from issuing executive subpoenas to national banks in an effort to view nonpublic information about the banks’ lending practices but ruled that Cuomo may bring […]
NEW YORK - A New York federal judge on June 29 sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison for running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme through his investment advisory business, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (United States of America v. Bernard L. Madoff, No. 09-cr-213, S.D. N.Y.).
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