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Settlement
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Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Issacharoff & Klonoff on the Mass Tort Settlements
By joetort
Samuel Issacharoff (NYU) & Robert Klonoff (Lewis & Clark) have just posted "The Public Value of Settlement" on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Thisarticle, part of a symposium honoring the 25th…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Erichson: Reflections on the Adjudication-Settlement Divide
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Professor Howard Erichson (Fordham) has posted on SSRN Forward: Reflections on the Adjudication-Settlement Divide, 78 Fordham L. Rev. (2009). Here's the abstract: This Foreword introduces the papers of the 2009 Fordham…
Drug & Device Law
Erichson On “All-Or-Nothing” Settlements
By Bexis
Professor Howard Erichson, of Fordham Law School, has posted on SSRN (here) and discussed at the Mass Tort Litigation Blog (here) his new paper, "The Trouble With All-Or-Nothing Settlements." Erichson's…
TortsProf Blog
O’Connell & Born on Early Offer Savings for Products Liability
Jeffrey O'Connell (Virginia) and Patricia Born (Florida State Business) have posted to SSRN The Similar Cost and Other Advantages of an Early Offer Reform for Products Liability Claims for Personal…
Securities Law Prof Blog
BofA Agrees to Turn Over Documents About Merrill Lynch Legal Advice
The Bank of America, in a sharp reversal of strategy, has agreed to waive the attorney client privilege and turn over to the New York Attorney General documents concerning the legal…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Hyman, Black, and Silver on the Impact of “Duty to Settle” on Settlement
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
David Hyman, Bernard Black, and Charles Silver have posted The Impact of the Duty to Settle" on Settlement: Evidence from Texas.Abstract:Allinsurance has coverage limits, and insurers usually control whether acase…
Media Law Prof Blog
Satriani, Coldplay Settle Dispute Over “If I Could Fly”
It seems that the band Coldplay and Joe Satriani have settled their dispute over allegations that the band plagiarized his song "If I Could Fly." Mr. Satriani claimed that Coldplay's…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Second Thoughts on Judge Rakoff’s Rejection of the SEC-BofA Settlement
I continue to ponder Judge Rakoff's order refusing to approve the SEC-BofA consent judgment in connection with the alleged misstatements about the Merrill bonuses in the BofA proxy statement seeking…
Media Law Prof Blog
Picking Sides In the Google Settlement
The Chronicle of Higher Education has this survey of who's on which side in the fight over the Google book settlement. Meanwhile, the Copyright Office has come out against the…
TortsProf Blog
Top 10 Recent SSRN Torts & Products Liability Downloads
1 243 Responsibility & the Negligence Standard Joseph Raz, Joseph Raz, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Columbia Law School, Date posted to database: July 21, 2009 Last Revised: September 7,…