Litigation
After two hours of rancorous debate, the House Rules Committee voted 7-4 along party lines to allow the House to […]
Sidley & Austin attorneys look at July court actions and determinations regarding e-discovery. Among the highlights: The Seventh Circuit upheld […]
In the legal battle between Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his wife over who has a right to control the […]
McGuireWoods litigator Tom Spahn, a frequent speaker on ethics issues, discusses with legal technologists Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway how […]
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.
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