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Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 20, No. 244 - December 20, 2011
Daily decision alert.Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Speech and Lawyer Websites
Does a lawyer's website constitute free speech, or is it commercial free speech, which is afforded lesser protection under the First Amendment? It's an important question a trial court soon will address because of the appellate work done by Lubbock attorney Robert Hogan.Litigation involving MBIA has been keeping investors on edge for four years now, as the bond insurer wages war with the banks whose financial products it insured in the run-up to the economic crisis. It's also generated some wrenching reversals of fortune for the lead lawyers battling over MBIA's 2009 restructuring, which the banks say allowed the company to shirk its obligations to structured finance policyholders.
Foreign executives feel antitrust crackdown
The government's intensified focus on international cartel prosecutions has led to an unprecedented number of jail sentences, a steadily climbing number of guilty pleas and record prison sentences against foreign executives. Antitrust lawyers representing foreign companies and executives said the trends will most likely continue, bringing a number of challenges for defendants in these cases.Judges' Associations Prepare To Sue State for Salary Hike
Volunteer attorneys for judges' organizations are drafting a lawsuit to force Governor Eliot Spitzer and the state Legislature to give state judges their first pay raise since January 1999. The complaint is being developed on a pro bono basis by Chadbourne & Parke partners Thomas Bezanson and George Bundy Smith, a former judge on the Court of Appeals.U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson in Delaware has once again punished the chip designer Rambus for shredding documents back in 1998 and 1999, shortly before it declared a patent war against much of the semiconductor industry.
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