Litigation
In a landmark Internet copyright ruling last month, the Court of Justice of the European Union found that users who […]
A last-minute settlement in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case left unanswered some important legal questions – the parameters of […]
In a class action case accusing wireless cell phone companies of colluding to fix text-message prices, plaintiffs claimed that T-Mobile deleted e-mails they should have preserved, which may have made their case. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois disagreed.
Defendants accused of misappropriating trade secrets have clever stratagems to avoid large damages. Plaintiffs need to be just as crafty to protect their commercial successes.
A restaurant cook plaintiff’s attempt to pull a franchisor into a Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit as co-defendant succeeded with […]
There is one glaring exception to a Department of Justice policy that considers the existence of a compliance program as a factor in determining whether to charge a corporation with a crime.
Two former professional football players are suing the players’ union. claiming the union knew for years about the serious consequences […]
Former Dewey & LeBoeuf executives, charged with misleading lenders and bond investors in the economic unraveling of the once-lauded firm, […]
Responding to increasingly dangerous and potentially expense cyberattacks, some companies are taking aggressive counter-measures that may either cross the line […]
A lesser-known provision of Dodd-Frank allows the SEC to pursue civil penalties for a broad range of actions through administrative actions and to impose civil penalties on its own as well as in federal court…
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