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With demand for corporate work slack through most of the year and clients continuing to apply rate pressure, 12 elite Am Law 100 firms — with a handful of exceptions — made only slight gains in both gross revenues and profits in 2012, according to The American Lawyer's reporting.
1st Court Overturns Yates Conviction and Orders New Trial
Citing the effect of false testimony by an expert witness for the prosecution, Houston's 1st Court of Appeals on Jan. 6 overturned Andrea P. Yates' 2002 murder conviction and ordered a new trial for the mentally unstable Houston woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001.Protecting Sensitive Computer Codes
WO RECENT cases have considered the impact of the posting of identical, highly sensitive computer code on the Internet. Applying different bodies of intellectual property law, they reached opposite conclusions as to whether the continued posting should be enjoined. Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley , 1 applying the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, affirmed a permanent injunction against the posting of, and hyperlinking to, sites containing a computer code known as DeCSS. DeCSS "descrambles" the protecCourt Cites False 'Law & Order' Testimony in Overturning Yates Conviction
Citing the effect of false testimony by an expert witness for the prosecution, Houston's 1st Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned Andrea P. Yates' 2002 murder conviction and ordered a new trial for the mentally unstable woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub. The witness had testified that an episode of "Law & Order" -- about a woman with postpartum depression who drowned her children and was found insane -- aired before the crime. No such episode was ever shown.
Conference Call: Supreme Court Asked to Take California Labor Case
On labor issues, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Labor Relations Board haven't always seen eye to eye. But both bodies are hoping the Supreme Court will decide this week to review a California law that bars employers from using certain state funds to influence the outcome of a union election campaign.Greene's Pressure Treating Rentals Inc. v. Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
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