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September 09, 2009 |

Chadbourne Challenges Tribune Co. Fee Examiner's Call

Stuart Maue, the company serving as the court-appointed fee examiner in the Tribune Co. bankruptcy case, is being so thorough that Chadbourne & Parke -- counsel for the creditors committee -- is taking the rare step of challenging the fee examiner's call to cut $13,639 from the firm's $1.68 million fee request. The dispute highlights the growing importance of fee oversight, a practice which is not outlined specifically in the federal bankruptcy code and varies wildly between courts and judges.
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February 01, 2010 |

Litigation Fraud Allegations Hotly Disputed in Dole Banana Case

After months of silence, plaintiffs lawyers are adamantly denying allegations that fraud underlies a raft of lawsuits accusing Dole Food Co. of poisoning workers with the pesticide DBCP on banana plantations in Central America and elsewhere. Allegations emerged after a Los Angeles judge issued a written order in June noting actions by lawyers in Nicaraguan DBCP cases. In interviews, attorneys pressing DBCP claims argued that the judge's conclusions were unfair and a distraction from genuine claims.
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Eleventh Circuit Punts on Constitutional Questions in Long-Awaited Tobacco Ruling, Leaving Both Sides to Declare Victory
Publication Date: 2010-07-22
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It's a rare appellate ruling that has both the plaintiffs and defendants in billion-dollar litigation claiming to be thrilled.

November 22, 2004 |

Courts Should Keep Door Open For Videotaped Depositions

Plaintiffs' lawyers should be given wide latitude to videotape depositions of defendant doctors in medical malpractice actions, a Lancaster County judge has ruled.
6 minute read
August 06, 2007 |

Patent Reform Finds Traction in House and Senate

Legislating patent reform is like finding a recipe to feed diverse cultures that long have hated each other's foods. But now that major patent reform bills have come out of the "oven" and onto the House and Senate floors in the U.S. Congress, will those cultures find enough in the pot to appeal to their divergent tastes?
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November 19, 2003 |

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December 31, 2012 |

Recession-rattled investors lose faith in stocks

Defying decades of investment history, ordinary Americans are selling stocks for a fifth year in a row.
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July 24, 2003 |

Obscure Alien Tort Claims Act Resurfaces With Alarm

If you're a business and you haven't yet been sued under this law, don't worry, you will be.
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September 17, 2004 |

Majoras: We'll Stay Course

Deborah Majoras today will be publicly sworn in as the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a job she technically took over last month when Timothy J. Muris resigned. In her first interview on competition policy since returning to government, Majoras discusses her views on oil industry consolidation, merger remedies and international antitrust enforcement.
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