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Antitrust litigator David Gelfand, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, is joining the Justice Department's Antitrust Division as deputy assistant attorney general for litigation.
Lobby Talk: Getting Over China Syndrome
Congressional debates over strict new controls on high-technology exports are putting American companies and their Washington advocates on edge: If such rules were to be implemented, U.S. computer, aerospace and nuclear firms could find their access to China's market of more than a billion people seriously impeded. In some ways this is a problem of the companies' own making. Only now have they begun a belated counter-offensive to protect their interests.Friday was a good day for Yahoo, which saw headaches involving licensing fees for its LAUNCHcast music service and patents for parametric searching disappear.
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Thursday halted the operations of FilmOn, a controversial online television streaming service. The judge found the television broadcast networks suing FilmOn X LLC for copyright infringement were likely to succeed.
Study says vacancies to blame for massive immigration court backlog
The failure of the Bush and Obama Administrations to fill immigration judge vacancies has driven the backlog of cases and wait times for decisions to all-time highs, according to a Syracuse University research organization.Comcast-NBC Merger Deal May Spark Antitrust Turf Battle
A fight may be brewing between antitrust regulators at the Department of Justice and the FTC over review of the $30 billion Comcast/NBC deal announced Thursday. The merger review is all but certain to be high-profile, and has already triggered statements from members of Congress about potential anti-competitive effects. But it's still undecided which agency will handle the review. "It should be a colossal clearance fight," said one antitrust lawyer. "Both agencies appear to have justifiable claims."The estate of a woman who died after taking the Wyeth diet drug Redux claimed the company was negligent in asking the FDA to approve such a dangerous product. The Sixth Circuit overturned a lower court and said the estate's state law negligence claim can proceed.
D.C. Firms View China With Caution
Dozens of U.S. firms have swept into the Chinese market in recent years -- 39 of the largest 250 U.S. firms have offices in Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong. But Washington, D.C., firms have been late to the game, with some justification. Most of the law firm money to be made stems from burgeoning corporate activity -- foreign investment, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions -- which is largely the province of big firms in New York and L.A. Still, China won't be ignored -- there's just too much money at stake.Both Sides Play Victim in Death Penalty Case
The death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis came before the Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday, with his lawyers claiming he is the victim of mistaken identity and a prosecutor claiming that the state is a victim of an unfair public opinion campaign. Attending the oral argument were representatives from the organizations that have turned the case into a cause celebre, including Amnesty International, the ACLU, the NAACP and the Southern Center for Human Rights.Trending Stories
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