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Appeals Court Relaxes Restrictions on Bundled Discounts

Lane County, Ore., is not exactly a Mecca of consumer choice. When it comes to health care, for instance, the county's 323,000 residents have only ...
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Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #8. Red Alert

When it comes to U.S. consumers there are three things companies should never mess with--their pets, stomachs and kids. Thanks to poor oversight in factories ...
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #6. Going Green

"Green" was the word on everyone's lips this year, as Al Gore collected his Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness of climate change, hybrid vehicle ...
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #4. Tug-of-War

The Supreme Court dealt a decisive blow to many pending pay discrimination suits with its May decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. ...
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #19. Investors Lash Out

Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific Atlanta has all the trappings of a great courtroom drama: sympathetic plaintiffs, an emotionally charged issue and high stakes for ...
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #17. Extreme Makeover

For all the talk about the importance of stare decisis during John Roberts' confirmation hearings, the Roberts Court hasn't been shy about making bold changes ...
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #9. EU Muscle

While U.S. courts took significant steps to relax domestic antitrust policy in 2007, European competition regulators stepped into the gap and emerged as the world's ...
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #16. Black Eye for GE

General Electric Co. enjoyed a reputation as an incubator for successful future general counsel during the past 40 years--that is until one of its own ...
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #7. No Respect

Like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, European in-house counsel don't get much respect. Companies in the EU frequently neglect to give general counsel C-suite status, ...
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Year in Review: #14. DOJ Backlash

For years bar organizations, business groups and civil liberties advocates criticized the DOJ's infamous Thompson Memo, which gave prosecutors free rein to demand waiver of ...
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