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January 15, 2013 | Law.com

As lawyers, we get to debate some of the most pressing questions of our time: The limits of Congress's commerce power. The reach of the Due Process Clause. "Pleaded" versus "pled."

By John Chandler and Brian Boone

5 minute read

November 01, 2002 | Law.com

Employers have long been aware of some of the hazardous workplace issues, such as a location in a high-crime area and employees handling relatively large amounts of cash. But in modern times, they have to be aware that the trend toward violence from co-workers and personal relationships outside of work has accelerated in recent years.

By Terry S. Boone

9 minute read

March 23, 2005 | Law.com

Workers have filed a class action against Hewlett-Packard Co., claiming the company wrongly classified them as contractors instead of employees. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Idaho, claims that the misclassification denied benefits such as health insurance, vacation and sick leave, and retirement plans to more than 3,000 H-P workers throughout the United States. The suit seeks more than $300 million in damages.

By Rebecca Boone

2 minute read

October 19, 2006 | Law.com

An Idaho teen who developed a serious blood clot problem after using a popular birth control patch has sued Johnson & Johnson and drug maker Ortho McNeil in federal court. The lawsuit over Ortho Evra is one of hundreds filed nationwide, company officials said. The plaintiff had been using the patch for just over a month when she noticed swelling in one leg that turned into deep vein thrombosis, her lawsuit says. She contends the product was rushed to market without receiving adequate safety testing.

By Rebecca Boone

2 minute read

December 16, 2005 | Law.com

A federal judge has tossed out an Idaho county's suit against local employers accused of hiring illegal immigrants -- an attempt to recoup money the county says it has spent on the workers. The judge said Canyon County's claimed higher expenses for social services were simply the costs of being a government entity. The suit marked the first time a government tried to use the federal Racketeering and Corrupt Organizations Act to demand damages from businesses for the costs of allegedly illegal employees.

By Rebecca Boone

3 minute read

July 29, 2005 | Law.com

An Idaho county has filed a racketeering lawsuit against agricultural companies accused of hiring illegal immigrants -- an attempt to recoup money the county says it has spent on the workers. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday claims the companies violated a federal law that allows winning plaintiffs to receive triple damages. It's the first time a government entity has used the RICO Act to demand damages from businesses for the costs of allegedly illegal employees, say legal experts.

By Rebecca Boone

3 minute read

May 18, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Andrew Tulumello and Aric Wu, partners at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Brian Boone, an associate at the firm, write that the viability of RICO fraud-based damages class actions will be affected by many doctrinal developments, but the interplay between Bridge and the McLaughlin line of cases will be among the most important. After Bridge, they say, it is difficult to suggest that there should be a blanket rule that reliance issues make certifying RICO fraud-based classes impossible.

By Andrew Tulumello, Aric Wu and Brian Boone

13 minute read

February 01, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

By Haynes and Boone

18 minute read

September 22, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

The suits surrounding the fall of international companies will continue, certainly over the next couple of years. The ability to represent individual defendants calmly in the eye of this storm presents a challenge to the defendant and his or her counsel.

By Gayle A. Boone

6 minute read

October 21, 2009 | Law.com

Former AG John Ashcroft has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that he can be held responsible for wrongfully detaining people as material witnesses after the 9/11 attacks. U.S. citizen Abdullah al-Kidd sued Ashcroft after he was jailed as a material witness in a terrorism case against another man. In a request filed Monday, Ashcroft said the three-judge panel's Sept. 4 ruling was flawed and gutted immunity laws designed to allow prosecutors to carry out their office without fear of frivolous suits.

By Rebecca Boone

3 minute read