Litigation

Iffy Support Animals Breeding Litigation

A legal controversy is brewing over the question of what constitutes a support or “service animal” and can thus be brought aboard aircraft and into …

Privilege Lost For “Underlying Documents” When Report Is Made Public

When a school board released a lawyer’s report about alleged sexual assaults by members of a high school basketball team, it had no desire to release the interviews and communications that…

Don’t Push Send

Every day, attorneys transmit spreadsheets, documents and PDFs, to courts and adversaries, to third parties, and to clients. Either they […]

Former IBM Diversity Exec Sued Over Non-Compete

In a suit filed in federal court in New York, IBM alleges that Lindsay-Rae McIntyre’s new position as Microsoft’s chief […]

Magic Words and Stock Prices

Last summer the share price of a biotech company named Bioptix was languishing in the below $10 range. It had […]

Patent Litigation On Contingency Basis Disappearing

An article in IP Watchdog explains the numerical decline in contingency litigation law firms, attorneys and cases filed, and the […]

Life Sciences Companies Getting Pounded By Class Actions

Last year was a record year for securities class actions, and life sciences companies were especially hard hit. There was […]

US Company Sues Venezuelan Oil Execs For Soliciting Bribes

Harvest Natural Resources, a Houston-based oil and gas company, is suing executives with Petroleos de Venezuela for demanding bribes in […]

Protective Orders in Litigation

What are the limits of public access to the courts? In this Today’s General Counsel article, attorney Cristin K. Traylor […]

$75 Ticket For Keeping Chickens, $5,600 In “Prosecution Fees”

A class-action has been filed against two CA municipalities that have “made a practice of taking residents to criminal court for exceptionally minor crimes, then charging them thousands to pay for the cost of their own prosecution,” according…

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