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Understand Predictive Coding Options
Recent cases have thrust predictive coding, also referred to as computer-assisted review, into the spotlight. Reading the recent case law alone, however, will not teach in-house counsel how to evaluate whether and how to use predictive coding.Attempts To Expand Public Nuisance Laws To Reach Products
The current fad in high-profile products litigation involves suits by government entities to recover public expenditures from product manufacturers. Thus far, those suits have focused on various allegedly "bad" (although legal) products that the government claims has contributed to public nuisances, increasing costs for such public services as medical care, police patrols, insurance and criminal prosecutions.Plaintiffs Groups Mount Effort to Undo Supreme Court's 'Iqbal' Ruling
On May 18, the U.S. Supreme Court gave corporate defendants a gift that keeps on giving: the Iqbal decision, which has made it easier than ever for defendants to shut down lawsuits before they get to the costly discovery stage. Now, four months later, civil rights and consumer groups and trial lawyers are beginning to push back. They met last week in Washington, D.C., to lay plans for a two-pronged battle to undo what they see as a devastating blow to their lifeblood litigation.ADP estimates U.S. companies added 114,000 workers in July
A slowdown in hiring means consumers are unlikely to boost the spending that fuels 70 percent of the economy, raising the risk the recovery may stumble.Trade Secrets Suit Against Disney, ABC Gets Second Life
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a 1998 verdict against ABC Radio Networks Inc. and Walt Disney Co. for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract, finding the trial court erred in throwing out the $40 million judgment. Children's Broadcasting Corp. had accused ABC of breaching a contract to combine forces to establish a national network of radio stations providing children's programming.The S&L Payouts That Never Came
When Charles Cooper argued and won United States v. Winstar at the Supreme Court, plaintiffs lawyers thought thrifts and investors would recover billions of dollars. The landmark 1996 ruling found the government liable for breaking contracts with savings and loan associations as regulators tried to avert the 1980s S&L fiasco. But so far, actual damage awards have fallen far short of what everyone -- even the government -- anticipated.Attempts to Expand Public Nuisance Laws to Reach Products
It is shortsighted to seek to apply public nuisance law to products. Injuries caused by products are properly addressed through other tort law.Important Issues Percolate in Bankruptcy Appeals
As a wave of bankruptcy filings makes its way through the courts, unresolved questions that will significantly affect future consumer and business bankruptcies are bubbling up in appeals to the district and circuit appellate courts.Trending Stories
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