Litigation

Shoppers Sue Retailers For Zip Code Requests

January 21, 2015

At least 25 Massachusetts retailers who asked customers for their zip codes—a common practice to determine demographics or deduce home […]

Citizens United: Five Years, A Billion Dollars

January 21, 2015

Georgetown University law professor David Cole, writing in the New York Times Review of Books, finds the results of the […]

EU To Appeal Ruling Striking Hamas From Terror List

January 19, 2015

The European Union General Court has ruled that the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas should be removed from the terrorist list, […]

Lawyers Heroes Or Goats In Fight For Marriage Equality?

January 19, 2015

Though the issue is about marriage equality for same-sex couples, SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein says “[T]his is up to now […]

Corporate Heavyweights Target Patent Trolls

January 15, 2015

Major companies in the retail and hotel and restaurant industries have joined high-tech stalwarts like Google, Facebook and Adobe to […]

A Big Month For Anti-Corruption Enforcement

January 15, 2015

Major anti-corruption developments by way of the FCPA, and world-wide…

California Court Mandates Pay For ‘Sleep Time’

January 15, 2015

The California Supreme Court ruled this week that for some occupations—such as 24-hour security guards who sleep for eight hours […]

Sorry, You Can’t Ghost Write The Expert’s Report

January 14, 2015

A district court in Michigan has rejected an IP expert’s invalidity opinion, after finding that the expert had spent only […]

SCOTUS Dings Obama Administration On Drug Deportation

January 14, 2015

The case of a Tunisian professor with two Master’s degrees who was deported after he was found with four pills […]

MetLife Sues Gov’t Over ‘Too Big To Fail’ Distinction

January 14, 2015

Though the insurer had hoped to avoid litigation, MetLife said it had no choice but to file a lawsuit to […]

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