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Civil cases surge 25% to post-Woolf high

The number of civil cases launched in the High Court has jumped by 25% in a year - reaching its highest level since the advent of the Woolf Reforms in 1999. According to research carried out by the Ministry of Justice and exclusively obtained in advance by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC), the number of commercial cases in 2006 reached 61,691 - up from 49,442 the previous year.
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Inside Counsel

Louis Vuitton Wins Suit Over Spears Video

Louis Vuitton won a lawsuit against Sony BMG, a Sony subsidiary and MTV Online over a Britney Spears music video that featured a car upholstered in counterfeit Vuitton-logoed fabric.
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Inside Counsel

Toy companies hit with lead lawsuit

California Attorney General Jerry Brown and Rocky Delgadillo, a Los Angeles city attorney, announced they would file a lawsuit against Mattel Inc., Toys R Us Inc. and 18 other companies on Nov. 19, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Inside Counsel

Judge Dismisses Apple Backdating Suit

A shareholder suit against Apple was thrown out Nov. 14 after a federal judge found the company's backdating scandal did not negatively impact its stock price.
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Inside Counsel

Comcast Sued Over BitTorrent Blocking

A California man filed a lawsuit Nov. 13 against Internet service provider Comcast, alleging that the company's use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, their user contracts and anti-fraudulent advertising statutes.
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International Edition

Arbitration: Running the line

Arbitration is widely recognised to be an autonomous system for the settlement of disputes, where the parties' choice is paramount, and the tribunal is given power to decide its own competence. In this scheme, national courts at the seat of arbitration are required to limit their interventions to supporting the arbitral process (See the New York Convention, Article II).
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International Edition

Paul Lasok: EU referendum would clear air

In the UK, treaty-making is a matter for the Crown acting in conjunction with Parliament. The few instances of referendums and the like are insufficient to give rise to a constitutional convention saying that a referendum must be held if a treaty such as the European Union (EU) Reform Treaty is to be ratified. Whether or not there should be a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty is therefore a political rather than a legal question. This is except for the idea once floated by the Conservative Party of holding a referendum after ratification with a view to backing out of the Reform Treaty if it found against it, which does have legal implications. The professed purpose of such a post-ratification referendum is to engineer a breach by the UK of a legally binding promise that it had entered into freely and in accordance with domestic procedures and processes.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

Yahoo Settles With Jailed Chinese Journalists

Yahoo settled a lawsuit on Nov. 13 brought by two Chinese journalists who were arrested based on information the Internet search giant provided to the Chinese government.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

University Sues Google Over Patent

Boston's Northeastern University and Jarg Corp., a start-up company co-founded by an associate professor, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google Inc. on Nov. 6.
3 minute read

Inside Counsel

Merck Settles Vioxx Suits for $4.85 Billion

Merck & Co. Inc. agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle 27,000 lawsuits over heart attacks and strokes related to the pain medication Vioxx, which was pulled from the market in 2004.
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