| Claims in E-Mail Sent Via Google Found to Be Opinion, Not Libel | Top |
| A resort operator's attempt to force Google to turn over extensive information about the sender of an allegedly libelous email criticizing the company's treatment of native Jamaicans has been rebuffed by a New York court in a decision that grapples with the nature of libel claims in the Internet age. |
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| BP Cuts $1.1 Billion Deal with MOEX to Trim Liability in Oil Spill Litigation | Top |
| MOEX USA, which holds a 10 percent stake in the undersea well that soiled the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, has agreed to pay BP $1.1 billion in a deal designed to limit both companies' exposure in the oil spill litigation. |
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| Plaintiffs would divide BP shareholder claims into three trials | Top |
| Lawyers for shareholders suing BP PLC to recover losses tied to last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill have proposed a timetable by which their cases would go to trial separately, with the first trial possible by July 30, 2012, according to court documents. |
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| Morgan Lewis Stands by IMF Report on Strauss-Kahn | Top |
| Amid Dominique Strauss-Kahn's release on bail, attention continues to focus on an earlier incident of allegedly improper conduct by the then-head of the International Monetary Fund -- and a report compiled by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in connection with that matter. |
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| Boxer has more questions for ABA about law school transparency | Top |
| Sen. Barbara Boxer is apparently unconvinced the ABA is pushing enough for transparency about law students' job prospects. On Friday, she asked the ABA to widen the scope of pending reforms to the way law schools report job placement and salary data. |
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| In D.C. Circuit, DOJ Defends Secrecy Of Cell Phone Tracking | Top |
| Justice Department lawyers are fighting in the D.C. Circuit to keep secret the case names and docket numbers of criminal prosecutions in which the authorities tracked defendants through cell phone data. |
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| Federal Judge OKs Antitrust Claims Against Huggies' Parent Company | Top |
| Kimberly-Clark must answer claims it tried to monopolize the market for disposable baby diapers and training pants now that a federal judge has refused to dismiss allegations it dominated the market by fraudulently procuring patents and waging "sham" patent lawsuits. |
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| European 'Community' Does Not Qualify as Foreign State, Judge Rules | Top |
| Claims by the European Community that R.J. Reynolds Nabisco was complicit with black market cigarette importers and money launderers in Europe have been dismissed by a judge who found that the European Community, which has been subsumed into the European Union, is not a foreign state. |
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| Ninth Circuit Revives ATS Claims Against Daimler over Argentine Violence | Top |
| The 9th Circuit has reinstated Alien Tort Statute claims by workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant near Buenos Aires against Daimler AG in connection with a brutal crackdown on suspected union organizers in Argentina. |
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| Justices Won't Review Ruling on Punitives in Failure-to-Warn Case | Top |
| A plaintiff who developed a severe reaction to the drug Motrin can pursue a punitive damages claim against Johnson & Johnson and one of its subsidiaries after the California Supreme Court declined last week to review the case. |
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| Insurance companies win $6.7 million over fraud scheme involving chiropractors | Top |
| In four related cases, a Massachusetts court has awarded about $6.7 million to insurance companies against chiropractic clinics and their owners over their participation in a fraudulent claim scheme involving staged automobile accidents. |
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| Wilson Sonsini Hires Chancery Court Chancellor for Delaware Office | Top |
| Less than a month after Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor William Chandler III announced he would retire after 26 years, the chief judge has revealed that he will join Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a partner on June 18. |
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| D.C. Circuit Upholds $413 Million Judgment Against Syria Over Contractors' Deaths | Top |
| The D.C. Circuit has upheld a $413 million default judgment against Syria stemming from the beheading of two American military contractors in Iraq. Representatives of the men's estates alleged Syria facilitated the murders by providing support to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaida, who claimed responsibility for the killings.Visit International News |
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| E-Discovery Market Predicted to Reach $1.5B in 2013 | Top |
| Research firm Gartner says the electronic discovery market reached total revenue of $889 million in 2009 and will hit $1.5 billion in 2013. Vendor consolidation, industry standards, and a focus on data integration are all on the horizon, the analysts said. A pilot project in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is revealing important lessons, they added.Visit Law Technology News |
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| Assessing the Legal Limits of Editorial Discretion | Top |
| By definition, editors edit. But can an editor or publisher go too far? Chadbourne's Lawrence Savell discusses the evolving area of media law where the exercise of editorial discretion exposes an editor or publisher to legal liability to a displeased author. |
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