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DOJ Seeks Supreme Court Review of Tobacco Ruling
After six years, the Justice Department's effort to "disgorge" big money from Big Tobacco may be in its final throes. Alleging decades of conspiracy to hide health risks from the public, the government is seeking $280 billion in past profits from nine tobacco companies. The DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to clarify whether companies can be forced to surrender profits for their past transgressions under civil RICO. The Court will consider the appeal, among others, in its private conference Friday.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.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.It's a rare appellate ruling that has both the plaintiffs and defendants in billion-dollar litigation claiming to be thrilled.
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.American Original: The Life and Constitution Of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
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?Trending Stories
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