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August 26, 2009 | Delaware Law Weekly

District Court Reverses Earlier Ruling That Patent Is Unenforceable

With the case on remand from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Delaware district court reversed a patent unenforceability ruling recently, which means an infringement suit brought by a division of Johnson & Johnson can proceed.
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October 30, 2008 | New York Law Journal

New SEC Enforcement Manual: Better Late Than Never

Amy Walsh, a partner at Kostelanetz & Fink, writes that since its establishment in 1934, the policies and practices governing the Securities and Exchange Commission have existed under a shroud of mystery accessible only to those who previously worked at the SEC or to those who represented parties in front of the commission.But recently the SEC's Division of Enforcement issued a 122-page Enforcement Manual that addresses a multitude of subjects, ranging from waiver of the attorney-client privilege to the best practices for Bates stamping documents.
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September 05, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Disloyal Employees

Peter J. Pizzi, chair of Connell Foley's Internet and information law practice, writes that most courts have interpreted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which offers injunctive relief and damages when a former employee "without authorization" has accessed a company's network in order to abscond with proprietary information, to include departing employees. Recently, a district court has gone against this precedent.
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July 10, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Court Reverses Summary Judgment In School Bus Accident

The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to the Pierce County School District in Katina Nixon's negligence action, on her own behalf and as the “next friend” of her daughter, after Nixon suffered injuries when a school bus struck her vehicle from behind while she was nine-months pregnant, holding that the trial court erred in finding that Nixon failed to show a genuine issue of material fact as to the cause of her child's injuries.
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May 24, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Google wins ruling in libel case

A resort operator's attempt to force Google to turn over information about the sender of an email criticizing the company's treatment of native Jamaicans has been rebuffed in a decision that grapples with the nature of libel claims in the Internet age.
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August 19, 2005 | Law.com

Calif. Court: Judicial Immunity No Shield for Thuggery

Judicial immunity is not absolute, a California appeal court has ruled in a bitterly contested case in which a lawyer acting as a referee was accused of assaulting a litigant. "A judge's robe is not a king's crown," Justice M. Kathleen Butz wrote, adding that judicial immunity "was never intended to protect acts of thuggery." Under the same rule, she said, a judge could "step down from the bench and choke an unruly litigant under the 'judicial' auspices of restoring order to the courtroom."
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November 01, 1999 | Law.com

Pass or Fail?

A federal judge will decide whether Texas' high-school exit exam unfairly discriminates against minorities. The case is being closely watched by educators nationwide and has the potential of impacting Gov. George W. Bush's presidential race. Bush proposed that federal education funding be tied to student testing. The suit may also impact Bush's crackdown on social promotions. Lawmakers earlier this year voted to base promotion in lower grades in large part on a student's performance on statewide tests.
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November 08, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News

The Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia will be closed Friday for Veterans Day. The library will reopen on Nov. 14 and resume normal business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Wednesday hours are 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.jenkinslaw.org.
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January 18, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

Holding Lawyers Accountable for Bad Settlements

Three recent cases in New Jersey have started to erode Puder and reassert the Ziegelheim beachhead that once protected victims of attorney malpractice. Do these cases signify a move back to the days of Ziegelheim and the protection it afforded those clients victimized by shoddy lawyering?
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October 14, 1998 | Law.com

Daily Decision Alert: Vol. 6, No. 197 -- October 14, 1998

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