David Horrigan

November 22, 2013 | Legaltech News

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejects arguments of Judge Shira Scheindlin's lawyer.

By Monica Bay and David Horrigan

2 minute read

October 25, 2013 | Legaltech News

Is EDRM a Jack of All Trades and Master of None? As Socha and Gelbmann transition from leadership, it's a good time to examine how the E-Discovery Reference Model is used and misused.

By David Horrigan

5 minute read

May 01, 2002 | Law.com

In what may be the largest award of attorney fees ever in a copyright case, a federal judge in Houston awarded Compaq Computer more than $2.7 million. U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon denied a motion to reconsider an earlier decision that Ergonome Inc., an ergonomics training company and publisher, and its two principals pay Compaq attorney fees in a suit claiming Compaq infringed on an Ergonome publication.

By David Horrigan

1 minute read

February 01, 2002 | Law.com

Gary Kremen, who won $65 million in damages from his suit against Stephen Cohen and others for the hijacking of his Internet domain name "sex.com," is now suing VeriSign in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, claiming the domain name registrar was liable for negligently allowing Cohen to steal the name. The closely watched case is the first Internet governance case to reach a federal appeals court.

By David Horrigan

2 minute read

March 23, 2009 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has allowed a class action alleging deceptive cigarette marketing to go forward, rejecting an attempt by the makers of Marlboro Lights to evade the U.S. Supreme Court's December pre-emption decision in Altria Group v. Good. The commonwealth's court of last resort also held that, although Massachusetts law defers to federal regulatory boards, the tobacco maker failed to show that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had given affirmative permission to use the descriptive terms, "light" and "lower tar and nicotine," on cigarette packs.

By David Horrigan / Special to the National Law Journal

3 minute read

May 05, 2003 | National Law Journal

On an august day in 2001, 2-year-old Zaniyah Hinson went on a field trip with her classmates from the Abundant Life Academy of Learning. The toddler-and 13 others-were packed into a seven-passenger Chevrolet Astro van. She never returned home.

By David Horrigan

2 minute read

January 12, 2004 | National Law Journal

A trial judge should have struck a doctor�s patients from his jury, a Kentucky appeals court rules.

By David Horrigan

3 minute read

October 06, 2003 | National Law Journal

Arkansas attorney Jesse Boomer Daggett II failed to perfect his appeal of an $800,000 jury verdict. On Sept. 25, the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed a lower court's grant of summary judgment to Daggett in the malpractice case, concluding that had he properly prosecuted the appeal, he could have won a reversal of the underlying verdict.

By By David Horrigan

2 minute read

November 24, 2003 | National Law Journal

After a California jury found that Varian Medical Systems Inc. had been defamed by the Internet postings of two former employees, California's 6th District Court of Appeal was faced with a novel question: Were the defamatory postings libelous or slanderous?

By David Horrigan

3 minute read

December 15, 2008 | National Law Journal

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a copyright infringement verdict against the great-grandson of artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in a fight over the right to reproduce sculptures created by the French impressionist.

By David Horrigan / Special to the National Law Journal

4 minute read