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- Standing to Challenge Wiretap Law Divides Circuit
- Augmented Court Rejects Port Authority Liability for 1993 WTC Bombing
- Rambus Asks San Francisco Jury for $3.85 Billion
- Lawsuit reinstated against Nixon Peabody partner
- Troy Davis Executed; Supporters Claim Injustice
- Doug Caddell on Foley & Lardner's Freedom of Computing
- Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Jonathan Turley
- George Rudoy on Legal Technology Consolidation
- Video: Robert Peck, Appellate Lawyer of the Week
- Lehman Estate Throws in the Towel, Drops Appeal in $13 Billion 'Windfall' Case Against Barclays
- Koh Dismisses Privacy Complaints Against Apple, App Makers
- Fairfield Feeder Fund Liquidators Face Setbacks in Clawback Suits Against Banks
- Circuit Revives Suit Targeting Homebuilders' Marketing Practices
- Panel Finds U.S. Courts Have Jurisdiction Over Prosecutions Arising From Sting Operations Abroad
- Judge Rules That Trustee Will Oversee Howrey Bankruptcy
- Federal Circuit slaps patent board for playing 'fast and loose'
- Rothstein investors reach settlement worth as much as $80 million
- DOJ v. AT&T Antitrust Suit Set For February Trial
- Lippman Urges Increased Age for Adult Prosecution of Teens
- Mayer Brown, Weil Gotshal Beat Back Class Certification Once Again in Merrill Lynch Discrimination Case
- Most of Divorce Attorney's Claims Fail Against Ex-Firm
- Porton Wants Legal Fees if 3M Is Allowed to Withdraw Suit
- Cozen O'Connor Withdraws Al-Qaeda Funding Suit Against Saudi Arabia; Motley Rice Reaches Settlement for Victim's Family in Final 9/11 Wrongful Death Case
- Judge turns aside challenge to Voting Rights Act
- Coral Gables attorney wins $16.5 million award for asbestos plaintiff
- Federal Judge Tosses Ala. Challenge to Election Monitoring
| Standing to Challenge Wiretap Law Divides Circuit | Top |
| In a decision that sets up a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, the 2nd Circuit has narrowly voted to deny hearing en banc a decision recognizing that lawyers, journalists and human rights groups have standing to challenge amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act because they fear their conversations are being, or will be, intercepted by the U.S. government. | |
| Augmented Court Rejects Port Authority Liability for 1993 WTC Bombing | Top |
| Today's ruling by a narrowly divided New York state high court overturns a lower court ruling that found the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 68 percent responsible for the attacks and the terrorists 32 percent responsible. | |
| Rambus Asks San Francisco Jury for $3.85 Billion | Top |
| Only a $3.85 billion jury award can undo the damage done by a multiyear price-fixing scheme, lawyers for Rambus argued Wednesday during closing arguments in their case against rival memory chip-makers Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor. | |
| Lawsuit reinstated against Nixon Peabody partner | Top |
| The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has revived claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress, fraudulent misrepresentation and vicarious liability against Nixon Peabody partner Regina Rockefeller and the firm stemming from a lawsuit by an attorney's wife. | |
| Troy Davis Executed; Supporters Claim Injustice | Top |
| Georgia executed Troy Davis on Wednesday night for the murder of an off-duty police officer, a crime he denied committing right to the end as supporters around the world mourned and declared that an innocent man was put to death. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an 11th-hour request for a stay. | |
| Doug Caddell on Foley & Lardner's Freedom of Computing | Top |
| Doug Caddell, CIO at Foley & Lardner, speaks with LTN staff reporter Evan Koblentz at ILTA about his firm's policy of giving lawyers the freedom to buy the technology they need -- instead of dictating choices. Freedom of computing, he says, allows firms to focus more on business issues and less on infrastructure. | |
| Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Jonathan Turley | Top |
| When Jonathan Turley is not teaching at George Washington University Law School or blogging, he is a litigator whose cases can never be described as boring. In this video interview with Tony Mauro, Turley discusses his high-profile case on Utah's anti-polygamy law. | |
| George Rudoy on Legal Technology Consolidation | Top |
| George Rudoy, of HSNO (formerly of Integrated Legal Technology), speaks with LTN's Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay about the end of isolated services in law firms. Rudoy discusses the centralization of legal technology in firms looking to modernize and meet budgets across the board. | |
| Video: Robert Peck, Appellate Lawyer of the Week | Top |
| Tony Mauro talks to Robert Peck, president of the Center for Constitutional Litigation. | |
| Lehman Estate Throws in the Towel, Drops Appeal in $13 Billion 'Windfall' Case Against Barclays | Top |
| After two years, a barely fathomable volume of briefing, a 34-day bench trial, countless hearings, and more than $55 million spent on top-shelf legal muscle from Jones Day, the Lehman Brothers estate ended its multibillion-dollar litigation against Barclays on Wednesday with a single paragraph. | |
| Koh Dismisses Privacy Complaints Against Apple, App Makers | Top |
| A federal judge has dismissed consolidated privacy class actions that claimed Apple and eight other defendants let advertisers track mobile device users' activity without permission. The judge granted leave to amend, finding the plaintiffs didn't show how the defendants' actions had allegedly harmed them. | |
| Fairfield Feeder Fund Liquidators Face Setbacks in Clawback Suits Against Banks | Top |
| Liquidators for the largest of the feeder funds that funneled investor money to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme have lost two key rulings in less than a week that may limit their multibillion-dollar clawback claims against banks whose customers invested in Madoff through the fund. | |
| Circuit Revives Suit Targeting Homebuilders' Marketing Practices | Top |
| The 9th Circuit has revived a class action by homeowners who say developers caused their property values to plummet by selling neighboring homes to high-risk buyers who went into foreclosure. The homeowners are seeking damages and the option of rescinding their home purchases. | |
| Panel Finds U.S. Courts Have Jurisdiction Over Prosecutions Arising From Sting Operations Abroad | Top |
| The 2nd Circuit has ruled that the actual location where a conspiracy is hatched is "irrelevant to the sufficiency" of the evidence that a crime has been committed in the United States as long as the intended victims of the terrorism are Americans. | |
| Judge Rules That Trustee Will Oversee Howrey Bankruptcy | Top |
| The Howrey bankruptcy will remain a Chapter 11 proceeding, but will be put under the control of a government-appointed trustee, San Francisco federal bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali ruled at a hearing Wednesday. | |
| Federal Circuit slaps patent board for playing 'fast and loose' | Top |
| In a rare reversal of a patent appeals board ruling, the Federal Circuit chastised the board for rejecting a patent on a different ground than the one used by the patent examiner, and remanded the case "to allow appellants a full opportunity to respond to the new rejection in the first instance." | |
| Rothstein investors reach settlement worth as much as $80 million | Top |
| George Levin and his Banyon Investments, the biggest investors in former law firm chairman Scott Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, have agreed to give up nearly all their assets and properties under a settlement expected to be worth at least $80 million. | |
| DOJ v. AT&T Antitrust Suit Set For February Trial | Top |
| U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle on Wednesday set a February trial date to hear the government's allegations that the proposed AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile violates antitrust laws and harms consumers. | |
| Lippman Urges Increased Age for Adult Prosecution of Teens | Top |
| New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has said that within the next three months he will establish adult criminal court parts dedicated to handling cases of 16- and 17-year-old offenders in an effort to demonstrate that the age of criminal responsibility can safely and economically be raised. | |
| Mayer Brown, Weil Gotshal Beat Back Class Certification Once Again in Merrill Lynch Discrimination Case | Top |
| Plaintiffs lawyers representing a purported class of African-American Merrill Lynch financial advisers in a discrimination case took the counterintuitive tack of citing the Supreme Court's Wal-Mart ruling in their latest bid for class certification. The unusual argument didn't get them very far. | |
| Most of Divorce Attorney's Claims Fail Against Ex-Firm | Top |
| A Manhattan judge has dismissed most of a divorce lawyer's $26 million lawsuit against his former partners, whom he accused of "disloyalty and greed" in allegedly reneging on promises to pay his insurance and mortgage after he decided to retire. | |
| Porton Wants Legal Fees if 3M Is Allowed to Withdraw Suit | Top |
| Litigation involving Porton Capital, 3M Co. and prominent lawyer-lobbyist Lanny Davis took a new turn Monday, with Porton's lawyers asking a New York state court not to allow 3M to withdraw a suit it filed against Porton unless 3M agrees to pay the investment firm's legal fees. | |
| Cozen O'Connor Withdraws Al-Qaeda Funding Suit Against Saudi Arabia; Motley Rice Reaches Settlement for Victim's Family in Final 9/11 Wrongful Death Case | Top |
| Cozen O'Connor has abruptly withdrawn a complaint that promised to breathe new life into claims that Saudi Arabia should compensate the families of 9/11 victims, but Cozen's efforts to hold the Kingdom financially responsible for its alleged support of al-Qaida may not be over. | |
| Judge turns aside challenge to Voting Rights Act | Top |
| A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled on Wednesday that Congress acted within its authority in 2006 when it extended the Voting Rights Act, including a section that requires some states and localities to get permission before changing how they run their elections. | |
| Coral Gables attorney wins $16.5 million award for asbestos plaintiff | Top |
| A Florida jury has awarded Charles Garrison, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and his wife $16.5 million against Dow Chemical subsidiary Union Carbide, marking the latest win for an asbestos plaintiff. | |
| Federal Judge Tosses Ala. Challenge to Election Monitoring | Top |
| A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to election monitoring required under the Voting Rights Act to ensure mostly Southern states are no longer disenfranchising black voters and found that discrimination continues in modern-day polling. | |
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