Alanna Byrne

May 22, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Thousands of employees walked off the job at five University of California (UC) medical centers on Tuesday, kicking off a planned two-day strike that aims to highlight purported staffing shortages at UC hospitals.

By Alanna Byrne

4 minute read

May 21, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Its been more than two years since the Supreme Court handed down its landmark pro-arbitration ruling in Concepcion v. AT&T Mobility, but the case is still reverberating throughout the court system, as the 4th Circuits recent decision in Muriithi v. Shuttle Express Inc. demonstrates.

By Alanna Byrne

4 minute read

May 21, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

On July 3, 2012, Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings posted a seemingly simple message to his personal Facebook page that read in part: Netflix monthly viewing exceeded 1 billion hours for the first time ever in June.

By Alanna Byrne

19 minute read

May 20, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Texas has become the latest state to sue BP Plc over its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill with a lawsuit accusing the oil company of engag[ing] in willful and wanton misconduct.

By Alanna Byrne

2 minute read

May 17, 2013 | Inside Counsel

GCs sound off on the IRS, horse racing, immigration reform and more

By Alanna Byrne

5 minute read

May 17, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Eight members of Congress on Thursday asked Google Inc. to respond to privacy concerns related to its Google Glass wearable computer.

By Alanna Byrne

2 minute read

May 16, 2013 | Inside Counsel

A federal judge has ordered Dow Chemical Co. to pay $1.2 billion for fixing prices on the chemical urethane, upholding an earlier guilty verdict handed down by a federal jury earlier this year.

By Alanna Byrne

2 minute read

May 15, 2013 | Inside Counsel

A quick-fading makeup, a cruel office prank and three more strange suits in the news

By Alanna Byrne

9 minute read

May 15, 2013 | Inside Counsel

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday that it will allow the continued sale of generic forms of the prescription pain drug Opana ER, after the agency found that a new form of the drug was not significantly more successful at preventing abuse.

By Alanna Byrne

2 minute read

May 14, 2013 | Inside Counsel

The family of former professional hockey player Derek Boogaard, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2011, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the National Hockey League (NHL).

By Alanna Byrne

3 minute read