Litigation

Pandora Lawsuit Could Overhaul Music Industry Royalty Scheme

February 20, 2014

A lawsuit between music streaming service Pandora and the two largest music publishing firms in the world could be the […]

Antitrust Suit Claiming Hotels, Online Travel Sites Inflate Prices Dismissed

February 20, 2014

A group of consumers who claim major hotel chains and online travel booking firms colluded to inflate the cost of […]

Alternative Damages Theories in Patent Cases

February 20, 2014

The most common type of damages award in a patent case is a straightforward royalty based on sales of the […]

Super-Disgorgement Ruling By An Appeals Court

February 19, 2014

In insider trading cases, the SEC can hold defendants responsible not only for their personal profits, but for money those […]

The TGC E-Discovery Survey

February 19, 2014

Slow to confront the social media conundrum; slow to adopt predictive coding…

No Protection For Whistleblower In Overseas Tax Case

February 19, 2014

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said that an employee was not engaging in protected activity when he reported a […]

Activist Nun Gets 35 Months For Nuclear Site Break-In

February 19, 2014

An octogenarian nun who, along with two other activists, broke into a U.S. nuclear weapons plant, leaving Bible quotes and […]

New Antitrust Enforcement Efforts Targeting Financial Firm Collusion

February 19, 2014

Justice Department antitrust authorities are taking a hard look at Wall Street and potential collusion in the financial industry, and […]

SEC Not Kidding about Subpoena Enforcement Actions, Obtains Coronati’s Arrest

February 19, 2014

Though the SEC is a civil, not criminal, enforcement arm, ignoring multiple subpoena requests could earn a visit from a U.S. Marshall, as investor Anthony Coronati discovered last month.

California Court Puts the Deep Freeze on Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Class Action

February 19, 2014

A group of plaintiffs were unable to meet the standards for class-action in a proposed suit against Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. for using an artificial ingredient in some of its ice creams labeled “all natural.”

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