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A presiding judge who said he was just trying to be cost-conscious has been publicly admonished by a court watchdog commission for canceling a colleague's court reporter services as a way of prompting the other judge "to engage in a dialogue about court expenses."
Thanks to a ruling this week by a Manhattan federal judge who will soon leave the bench for private practice, Vivendi shareholders will have to wait a while to argue to the 2nd Circuit that their securities claims against the company never should have been dismissed on Morrison grounds.Related story: N.Y. Federal Judge Leaves Bench to Start New Firm
In a case of first impression, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a court system supervisor may be liable as an individual under the federal law that allows employees to take 12 weeks of job-protected leave for medical reasons. The issue has split the circuit courts.
Dimitrios Biller, the former in-house attorney for Toyota Motor Sales USA who accused the automaker of discovery violations in products liability cases, has lost a 9th Circuit appeal to overturn a $2.5 million arbitration award against him.
After nearly five years of litigation, a Dubai court has dismissed patent claims that a Saudi citizen filed against Juniper Networks in 2007. A Saudi inventor suing an American company under an American patent in Dubai? As Juniper's senior director for IP litigation and patents said, "There was no playbook for this one."
At the request of prosecutors, a judge has ruled that all but six instances of priests who were reported to have committed sexual abuse or other improprieties can be admitted into the unprecedented trial of a high-ranking church official in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Patent merchant Ocean Tomo is suing a former managing director for the alleged theft of trade secrets and confidential client information. Ocean Tomo says a forensic analysis of a company laptop Steve Lee returned after he resigned found that more than 10 gigabytes of data had been copied.
The ABA has advocated for more inclusion of women, but the organization's leadership remains largely male. A report by the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession found a few causes for concern, including the 10 percent drop in the percentage of women serving as section or division chairs.
Paul Laurin, lead counsel for Fox Sports in the Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy, has joined Barnes & Thornburg, becoming the latest attorney to depart from imploding Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff, which began dissolving after a jury issued a $10 million verdict against it and two senior attorneys.
Instead of accepting a judge's decision to cut more than $1 billion from Oracle's record $1.3 billion copyright infringement verdict against SAP, Oracle and its lawyers at Bingham McCutchen and Boies Schiller have opted to risk winning an even smaller award in a new damages trial.
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