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Business to keep justices busy
THE NATION'S BUSINESS community experienced a banner year in the Roberts Court last term. Was it a one-term stand or the start of a long-term relationship The U.S. Supreme Court's October 2006 term was notable not only for business-related victories but for the sheer number and variety of business-related cases decided.Premerger notification requirements complicate bankruptcy sales
Sales of distressed assets or equity interests must still comply with Hart-Scott-Rodino's requirements regarding anti-competitive transactions.Drinker Biddle & Reath v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
The unfiled discovery that plaintiff seeks is exempt from public disclosure under N.J.S.A. 47:1A-9b, and its common-law right-of-access claim is denied because the state's interests in confidentiality outweigh plaintiff's interest in disclosure.Court Topples $1.8M Verdict vs. Foster Wheeler in Asbestos Case
New Jersey's statute of repose has led an appeals court to throw out a nearly $1.8 million verdict against Foster Wheeler in a wrongful death suit stemming from an asbestos-clad boiler it installed at Exxon's Bayway refinery.Recalling a stock market crisis
''THE PANIC OF 1907,'' a vivid history of a crash 100 years ago, landed on my desk just before the U.S. Federal Reserve lowered the discount rate last week. The timing was right for a book that describes how panics arise-and what it takes to arrest them. As a mountain of shaky mortgages subsided into a sinkhole this month, I had started counting Bloomberg stories in which market pros uttered the word ''panic.Study: One in 10 federal judges took expenses-paid trips
A nonprofit group's research has restoked the debate about federal judges who accept all-expenses-paid trips for educational seminars.Study Suggests Veteran Advocates Sway Supreme Court
The Court's docket continues to shrink. Yet dramatic new research by Georgetown University Law Center professor Richard Lazarus shows that more and more of the Court's cases are brought and argued by the seasoned veterans who have honed Supreme Court practice into a fine, and exclusive, art form.More In-House Lawyers Question the Billable Hour
Veta T. Richardson, president and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel, responds to our article, "AFAs Trending Down in U.S. and U.K."Oil Rig Disaster Creates Gusher of Legal Work
From Texas to Florida, the litigation rush is on, as thousands of gallons of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the April 20 explosion of a drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana.Drinker's Request for Depositions Denied in ExxonMobil Case
Drinker Biddle & Reath has lost a nearly five-year-long battle to obtain deposition transcripts from an environmental suit against ExxonMobil for use in defending its own clients in other litigation.Trending Stories
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