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In Rambus's IP War, It Was an Especially Manic Monday
Publication Date: 2009-02-23
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Both the U.S. Supreme Court and San Jose federal district court judge Ronald Whyte delivered good news to the litigious high tech company. But Whyte's came with a small dose of bad as well.

As Their Cravath Lawyer Bows Out, Record Companies Win Summary Judgment Against Lime Wire File Sharing Service in Copyright Case
Publication Date: 2010-05-12
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The day after Cravath's Katherine Forrest filed a withdrawal motion, her clients won a big summary judgment ruling holding Lime Wire liable for infringement. She said there's no connection between the events: She's turning the case over to Munger because she's tied up with the United merger.

October 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

From Russia with Litigation

Legal work may be scarce in some regions, but a bear awakens in the east.
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September 12, 2003 | Law.com

Proposition 54 Would Make Race Discrimination, Not Race, Private

With only a month to go before the next election, lawyers need to tell the public about the true impact of California's Proposition 54: It will allow the state to perpetrate racial discrimination without detection. Although those who write about California initiatives often try to portray initiatives as being much better or much worse than they truly are, for those who understand Prop 54, no hyperbole is necessary -- its purpose and effect is to allow discrimination.
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August 12, 2005 | Law.com

Milberg Weiss Called on 'Reverse Auction' Bid

Two New York plaintiffs firms are battling in federal court over whether one got too chummy with defendants in its efforts to become lead counsel in a class action. The tactic is known as a "reverse auction," by which attorneys talk to prospective defendants in advance and try to strike a deal that gives claimants an incentive not to sue. Both firms have filed putative class actions against KPMG and Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood over tax-avoidance plans they developed and sold jointly in the late 1990s.
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October 16, 2001 | Law.com

Novice New Jersey Judge Hears Thorny Issue of Disclosure of Alleged Tire Defects

A novice New Jersey Superior Court judge must decide a case that pits a corporation's right to guard trade secrets against a watchdog organization's assertion of the public's right to know about dangerous products. Sacramento, Calif.-based Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety is moving to lift a broad protective order in a suit charging that defective Goodyear tires caused the crash of an Air Force vehicle.
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December 23, 2002 | Law.com

Kirkland Dismissed From Enron Shareholder Suit

The federal judge in Houston overseeing the shareholder class action against Enron has dismissed claims against Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis, one of two law firms named as defendants in the case. Judge Melinda Harmon's 302-page decision, issued Friday, applies to motions to dismiss filed by banks, law firms and others that shareholders have charged took part in Enron's collapse.
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July 16, 2009 | Law.com

Tolkien Film Trilogy Rings False for His Heirs

Despite more than $6 billion in box office receipts, DVD sales and merchandising from the film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings," his heirs have yet to receive a cent, even though Tolkein sold the film rights to his trilogy in 1969 for $250,000 and 7.5 percent of all future movie receipts. Now the heirs, represented by Greenberg Glusker, have filed suit against New Line Cinema, a Time Warner subsidiary, claiming the studio has used all sorts of accounting wizardry to get out of paying them.
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January 18, 2006 | Law.com

Wilson Follows L.A.'s Suit on Salaries

Firm CEO John Roos says he wants to be able to attract the best candidates. "All of our competition had something to do with [the decision]," he said.
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April 10, 2006 | Law.com

Bar Review Suit Looks to Expand

A California lawyer who sued the makers of the BAR/BRI law review course for alleged antitrust violations has filed a motion for class certification on behalf of 300,000 law students. Eliot Disner, a partner at Los Angeles-based Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket -- which merged this month with Virginia-based McGuireWoods -- filed the year-old case on behalf of seven law school students who were allegedly overcharged about $1,000 each for the course. The case seeks triple the $300 million in damages.
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