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Judge Knocks Out Damages Expert in Suit Against Facebook

One week before trial, a judge in Virginia has disqualified a damages expert proffered by Rembrandt Social Media, a nonpracticing entity that accuses Facebook of infringing two of its patents.
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Corporate Counsel

Sharing Privileged Information During Due Diligence

Careful planning and thoughtful legal advice during routine due diligence for an impending transaction can help ensure the continued privilege status of shared information and facilitate closing the deal.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Report Recommends Disclosure of Differences in Lab Findings

The state inspector general's suggestion would require disclosure of information that could prompt a prosecutor to back away from a rape or murder case while arming the defense with a powerful cross examination tool in matters that do go to trial.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

New Trial Ordered Where Defendant Was 'Stupefied' at Questioning

Three robbery defendants will get a new trial because statements one of the accused gave police were made while he was impaired by pills taken in a suicide attempt.
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Legaltech News

Director's Messages With Counsel on Company Email Not Privileged

The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that a director's communication with his personal attorney over the company's email system were not privileged.
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National Law Journal

Feds Defend New Manslaughter Case Against Blackwater Guards

Federal prosecutors in Washington today began defending the government's new case against four former Blackwater security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead.
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National Law Journal

Appeals Court Hears Arguments in GPS Tracking Cases

A federal appeals court on Tuesday heard two cases about warrantless tracking, a procedure fraught with uncertainty in the wake of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held such GPS uses are Fourth Amendment searches.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

High Court Raises Employers' Workers' Comp Modification Burden

An employer will need to do more than just provide an expert's job-market survey to prove that jobs are available to injured employees when seeking to modify workers' compensation benefits in the wake of a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision.
6 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Manibusan

By | December 03, 2013
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New York Law Journal

'Brady' and the Unfulfilled Promise of an Even Playing Field

Jay Goldberg, a member of Jay Goldberg P.C., writes that almost a decade ago, the Second Circuit observed that there is an informational gap that exists between the defense and the prosecution, but what has been done to close the gap? Is there a way to assure that we will stop hearing that some innocence project has proven that a man was wrongly convicted? Action must be taken lest our criminal justice system be thought by the public to be fraught with miscarriages of justice.
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