Gary Young

July 14, 2003 | National Law Journal

It's ok for a Pennsylvania courthouse to have the Ten Commandments on public display. It's not OK for an Alabama courthouse to have the Ten Commandments on public display.

By Gary Young

4 minute read

March 19, 2003 | Law.com

Mike Espy, former congressman and secretary of agriculture, is proud of his latest venture: the Jackson, Miss.-based School Litigation Group. The group is helping some of the poorest of Mississippi public school employees get the overtime pay they've been wrongly deprived of for years -- part of a national increase in federal court cases seeking overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

By Gary Young

10 minute read

September 01, 2003 | National Law Journal

In March, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the U.S. government had the unquestioned authority to keep an illegal immigrant in detention for six months, but then must free him if he met certain conditions. In July, the 11th Circuit ruled that another man, who had been in detention since 2001, had no right to be released.

By Gary YoungStaff reporter

4 minute read

July 31, 2002 | Law.com

The procession of huge bankruptcy cases filed recently reveals a significant trend for U.S. bankruptcy courts and venue selection. After a decade-long dalliance with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., bankruptcy lawyers and their clients are once again favoring the Southern District of New York. What makes New York so attractive?

By Gary Young

6 minute read

May 05, 2003 | National Law Journal

The joint press release issued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Dial Corp. last week sheds little light on why two parties that had been vowing to fight to the finish just days before suddenly agreed to step back from the brink of trial and settle their highly publicized sexual harassment case.

By Gary Young

6 minute read

May 17, 2004 | National Law Journal

Settlements in class action securities fraud cases showed their first decline in seven years in 2003, according to a new study.

By Gary Young Staff reporter

5 minute read

March 01, 2002 | Law.com

In 1998, Malvern, Pa.-based IKON Office Solutions eliminated its legal department and put Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in charge of all its legal work. The experiment lasted only a year, and Don H. Liu was hired as general counsel to rebuild the department. Two-thirds of his in-house attorneys are either minorities or women, a fact that reflects Liu's lifelong commitment to promoting diversity in the workplace.

By Gary Young

7 minute read

October 03, 2001 | Law.com

Finding that the Federal Arbitration Act left it no choice, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed an arbitration award despite calling it "incomprehensible." Judge Richard A. Posner's opinion in IDS Life Ins. Co. v. Royal Alliance Associates illustrates in the starkest of terms the great deference that the act compels judges to pay to arbitrators, at least in the view of the 7th Circuit.

By Gary Young

5 minute read

March 28, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By Gary Young

4 minute read

September 27, 2004 | National Law Journal

A recent ruling that was meant to bring clarity to the copyright status of digital sampling already has some segments of the music industry warning of disaster.

By Gary YoungStaff Reporter

4 minute read