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Ruling Rejects Early Appeal of Privilege Determinations
Supreme Court Rejects Certified Question From 5th Circuit in Kidnap Case
Under federal law dating back to 1802, one way for a case to wind up before the Supreme Court is for a federal appeals court to certify a question to the justices. It has never been a frequently traveled path to the high court, but it has been allowed from time to time -- though not since 1981. On Monday the justices rejected such a request by the 5th Circuit to resolve a statute-of-limitations issue that could affect prosecution of long-ago civil rights cases in the South.Financial Guaranty Insurance Company added to the mountain of litigation that monoline insurers have brought against financial institutions by filing three suits against Ally Financial Inc. (formerly GMAC). FGIC is relying on a firm not typically seen in the mortgage-backed securities litigation arena: Jones Day.
The Bigger the Law Firm, the Bigger the Closet?
Law firms with the highest percentage of openly gay and lesbian attorneys are more apt to be smaller firms, with fewer than 300 attorneys, according to a new survey. Theories vary as to why, but it might be that smaller firms are just more up-front about the numbers of gays and lesbians in their workforce. A Seyfarth Shaw associate on the board of the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association says that, at a large firm, there is "an incentive to not be 'out' at work."Survivors of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos' "reign of terror" represented by Kohn, Swift & Graf can't reach $42 million in assets that the tyrant shifted to a New York investment account--at least not yet, New York's Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
DLA and Piper (and Gray) Make Merger Official
London's DLA and the partners of Piper Rudnick voted to merge the firms Saturday, creating what on Jan. 1 will be the world's third-largest law firm measured by number of attorneys and fifth-largest measured by revenues. The merged firm, which touts strengths in litigation, corporate finance, real estate and global government affairs, will operate in the United States, Europe and Asia. DLA is one of only a few U.K. firms to try combining with a major U.S. firm.An appellate court ruled on Thursday that the Federal Aviation Act preempts the state regulation of all airlines. The decision came in a long-running litigation in which major carriers have been accused of conspiring to keep cargo shipping rates artificially high.
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