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Litigation
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The Right Coast
Somin on Virginia health care lawsuit Tom Smith
Interesting on standing and commerce clause issues.I find myself hoping the Supremes get it and thinking they will decide 5-4 that the mandate is unconstitutional. I'm also aware that this…
Flat Fee IP
Smart Buyers Ask if Subs are “For Real”
By Dave Bohrer
I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Moore and Sam Sweet about using their company NCC Group as a neutral “escrow” site for producing highly confidential source code in…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Bray on Preventative Litigation
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Samuel Bray (Stanford Law School) has posted Preventative Adjudication to SSRN.Abstract: This Article identifies, justifies, and explains the parameters of a largely ignored but important category of cases - what…
Nursing Home Law Blog
Stark & Stark Shareholder Appointed to American Association for Justice’s Litigation Group Coordination Committee
David R. Cohen, Shareholder and Chair of Stark & Stark's Nursing Home Litigation Group, has been appointed by the President Elect of the American Association for Justice to serve as…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
MDL Panel in Boise, Idaho, to Decide Where to Transfer BP Oil Spill Lawsuits
By joetort
Next week, on July 29, the Multi-district Litigation Panel, a panel comprised of seven judges throughout the country, will gather to determine where to transfer the cases filed against BP…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Insurance Claim Practice Experts Will be Challenged at the Bad Faith Trial
By Chip Merlin
Claims practice experts can help explain why the conduct of an insurer is tantamount to "bad faith." As explained by Vivian Persand in Getting the Inside Scoop on Insurance Company…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Here Comes An Avalanche of FLSA Cases: Employers Be Aware, Be Proactive!
Statistics were just published showing a rise in litigation under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This highlights the fact (something we have seen for some years, now) that there is…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
What Ever Happened To…The Lawsuit by the Hartford Courant’s Consumer “Watchdog”
Time once again to bring back an occasional feature that takes a look at stories that have now fallen from the local newspapers' headlines. After all, have you ever noticed…
Business of Law
Value Tip Of The Day: No. 2–Avoid Litigation By Outlook Syndrome
By Patrick Lamb
You start a new matter and the emails fly in. So you open a folder in Outlook for the ABC Matter. Eventually, you get around to creating some sub-folders.…
Class Action Countermeasures
How To Deal With Overconfident Plaintiffs’ Lawyers
By The Editors
A number of legal blogs have already noted a study published last month on attorneys’ ability to predict the outcomes of their cases. Titled “Insight or Wishful: Lawyers’ Ability to…