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The Supreme Court on Monday announced it was granting review in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, a test of the scope of the pre-emption provision of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. It also noted that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. "took no part" in the decision to take the case. Though the justices almost never reveal their reasons for recusal, this one is almost certainly based on Roberts' stock ownership in Pfizer, which also became an issue in last year's landmark pre-emption case Wyeth v. Levine.
Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts. Those estimates do not include potential payouts for wrongful death and injury lawsuits, which could reach in the tens of millions each.
A recent report concluded law firms -- attractive targets because they maintain sensitive client data -- are being targeted by sophisticated and well-funded teams of cyberattackers. But firms don't often realize they've been infiltrated and rarely go public with security breaches.
As a corporate and finance attorney at Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer, Travis Leach occasionally represents sports industry figures -- often with their side businesses or other ventures. Those industry connections were the genesis for Snell's newest subsidiary: a sports agency called Athlete Management Professionals. Major firms often represent professional athletes, but it's unusual for one to open its own stand-alone sports agency, said Leach, who is running the venture with five other Snell attorneys.
It's a potentially explosive lawsuit focusing on the safety record of a major automaker. And it has nothing to do with Toyota. A small army of defense lawyers for once-mighty General Motors is battling in Connecticut court to seal court documents that indicate that poorly designed seat backs may have led to numerous deaths and injuries. Those documents were from a Philadelphia case that involved a woman who was killed in an accident involving a GM-made vehicle.
A new public opinion poll being released today found that more than 60 percent of voters think that televising U.S. Supreme Court proceedings would be "good for democracy." The poll, conducted by PublicMind, also indicates that more than half of voters believe that Supreme Court justices, who currently enjoy life tenure, should be limited to 18 years on the bench. The Supreme Court has clung to its long-standing opposition to cameras despite a steady but generally low-intensity campaign to change its mind.
Consumer bankruptcy lawyers are "debt relief agencies" under a 2005 federal bankruptcy law and restrictions on the type of advice they can give clients are constitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In a challenge brought by a Minnesota law firm, the justices unanimously held that the plain language of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act clearly indicates that lawyers function as debt relief agencies when they provide bankruptcy help to consumers covered by the law.
With technology, a legal department can speak with a single voice, think with a single mind, and act like a partnership even with lawyers dispersed around the world. Consultant Rees W. Morrison discusses 20 techniques that increase coherence and effectiveness in a spread-out department.
Opponents of Chicago's handgun ban in McDonald v. Chicago argued that the high court should solely rely on secondary sources and not digital searches of original material that aim to prevent "Barbie dolls in the archeological dig," where advocates read modern facts into the historical record.
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