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San Bernardino Set to Become Third California Municipality to Go Bust in Three Weeks
In eyeing a Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing, the Inland Empire city—which is being advised by Stradling Yocca—follows Stockton and Mammoth Lakes.Federal Jury Awards $18.9 Million in Copyright Case
A federal jury on Tuesday awarded nearly $18.9 million to The Graham Co., a Philadelphia insurance brokerage firm, in its copyright infringement case against a former employee and the brokerage firm he now works for. The suit claimed that Thomas Haughey took copies of two massive company manuals when he left Graham in 1991 to join USI Holdings, and that USI used the copyrighted manuals on a day-to-day basis and routinely reminded its employees to consult the books when preparing sales proposals.N.Y. Court Admits Expert Testimony On Consumer Confusion In Trademark Infringement Suit
Expert testimony on consumer confusion is admissible in a trademark infringement action, a federal judge in New York ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Joanna Seybert denied cross-motions by Bacardi & Company and New York Lighter Co. to exclude one another's experts from testifying in Bacardi's infringement action.
N.J.-Based Gibbons Opens Office in Delaware
Newark, N.J.-based Gibbons has opened an office in Wilmington, Del. The new office will focus on product liability, business and commercial litigation, financial restructuring and creditors' rights, with plans to become a full-service office. The office will be managed by William R. Firth III, of Gibbons' Philadelphia office, who says he hopes to open up a multidiscipline practice similar to other Gibbons offices and will explore hiring laterals with books of business as well as merger opportunities.Lawyers Taking Classes to Sharpen Their Sales Skills
As a junior associate, Jo Bennett concentrated on sharpening her legal skills, not on drumming up business. But when her practice group moved to a new firm, Bennett saw partnership on the horizon and knew she would have to present herself as a business-getter. Enter Human Resource Group, one of a number of consulting companies offering classes for lawyers whose legal education consists of civil procedure and torts rather than sales technique.Psychiatric Association May Sue HMOs
Voting 2-1, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society might have legal standing to sue a group of HMOs on behalf of its member psychiatrists and their patients, challenging what it claims are unfair refusals to pay for psychiatric services. The court said the PPS may be able to prove it has "associational" and third-party standing to press its members' claims.Allocatur May Boost Support for Street
Ordinarily, a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to grant allocatur isn't the sort of news event that would make it onto the radar screens of most voters.Outside Counsel Can Take Lead in Derivative Suit Investigations
A Pennsylvania judge has dismissed a shareholder derivative suit, disagreeing with the plaintiffs' argument that the attorney for the special committee was too involved in the investigation and was not independent from the defendant company, Superior Group Inc. The judge found that the plaintiffs "failed to substantiate" claims that John G. Harkins Jr. was not impartial because he had counseled Morgan Lewis & Bockius, in unrelated matters, and that firm represented defendants in the shareholder suit.The End of False-Marking Whistleblower Suits?
A recent order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is likely the final nail in the coffin for whistleblower cases against companies that falsely label products as patented.Trending Stories
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