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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is starting a new global security practice under the leadership of Brian Finch, a Washington lobbyist […]
DuPont general counsel Thomas L. Sager is retiring following 37 years at the chemical company, and will be replaced by […]
The U.S. Patent Office has waded into the politics of the National Football League, declaring the Washington Redskins trademark “disparaging […]
In an important Fourth Amendment case, the Second Circuit has ruled that the government’s right to overseize computer files pursuant […]
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of a district court’s determination that an academic consortium’s digital archiving project […]
The Seventh Circuit Appeals Court recently rejected a class action settlement that Judge Richard Posner found “inequitable – even scandalous.” The opinion identified myriad warning signs that demonstrated that the settlement “flunked the ‘fairness’ standard,” and should have been rejected by the district court.
Why are so few cases declared “frivolous,” and award of actual attorneys’ fees for filing bad faith lawsuits so few and far between? Varnum LLP attorney William Rohn posits the theory that when it comes to a litigant’s motives, they’re innocent until proven guilty.
This week’s Vergara v. State of California trial court decision will make it easier for California school districts to keep new teachers in “at will” probationary status longer, to fire tenured teachers, and to lay off bad teachers with a lot of seniority. As a lawyer for school districts, that sounds pretty good, but attorney Michael Hersher argues the reasoning and the factual underpinnings in the Vergara decision are seriously flawed.
A decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals provides the defendant in an ADA case with the possibility of […]
The final step in Canada’s efforts to modernize its copyright law was announced this week: Implementation of the “Notice and […]
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