Apple v. Samsung - What Happened - What's Next?
On Friday, August 24, a nine member jury entered a verdict in favor of Apple and awarded almost $1.05 billion in damages. Apple filed suit against one of its largest competitors, Samsung Electronics,...
View ArticleThree (or is it Four?) Teams on This Legal Gridiron
With the preseason underway and the regular season right around the corner, football fans are gathering in front of their TVs and crowding stadiums across the country with copious amounts of food and...
View ArticleEthics 20/20: The Impact of Technology
Every day, we see the impact of technology on the practice of law. Blogs, social networking, electronically stored information, and other legal resources create enormous economies and unprecedented...
View ArticleClass Actions and The Supreme Court
As the rest of us return from the last long weekend of summer, the U.S. Supreme Court send us scurrying back to our computers this morning with news that it has accepted Travelers' cert petition in...
View ArticleDiversity and Voir Dire: Why Attorneys Should Use Diversity to Relate to Jurors
IntroductionCases can be won and lost on voir dire. Success in jury selection relies on an attorney's interpersonal skills, mainly an attorney's ability to stand in front of a group of strangers and...
View ArticleRETAILERS WHO “SPY” BEWARE
Retailers providing consumers with electronics on a rent-to-own basis face many challenges in ensuring that they are paid for the electronics that they rent. In particular, computers are small and...
View ArticleThirty-Six Million Have Participated in Class Actions and It’s Not for the Money
An astounding four out of ten Americans have been invited to participate in a class action suit. Fifteen percent, the equivalent of 36 million people, actually participated in one, and most do not...
View ArticleIt’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … barber? Barbershop Sued by DC Comics over...
DC Comics has filed a trademark infringement suit against a Florida barbershop owner in federal court. The suit accuses the owners of “Supermen Fades to Fros LLC” of using signs, promotion materials...
View ArticleRent to Own Computers and the FTC
Wired Magazine recently reported that seven rent-to-own companies and a software manufacturer are settling charges with the Federal Trade Commission. The charges claimed that computers rented from the...
View ArticleEthics Experts Question Bank of America’s Request for Legal Fee Credit
Bank of America’s new plan to seek reductions in its legal fees from certain outside law firms have some experts questioning the ethics of this unusual practice. The bank is seeking a credit on its...
View ArticleThe Benefits Of Joint Representation
It is common in product liability litigation for the defendant company’s outside legal counsel to represent both employees and former employees of the company in deposition. In the absence of a claim...
View ArticleNCAA Sends Mixed Signals with New Enforcement Program
On Tuesday October 30th, the NCAA Board of Directors announced the adoption of a new enforcement structure that, among other things, creates additional levels of infractions, enhances accountability...
View ArticleTrademark Licensors As "Apparent Manufacturers" In Product Liability Cases
Although by no means a “hell hole” jurisdiction, it is difficult for a peripheral asbestos defendant to obtain summary judgment in Bridgeport Superior Court in Connecticut. Once summary judgment is...
View ArticleON YOUR MARK…., GET SET…., SHOP!
With the start of the holiday shopping rush just a week away, retailers should be mindful of their responsibility to keep customers safe when large crowds gather to take advantage of well-advertised...
View ArticleUPDATE: Players Respond to NFL’s Motion to Dismiss Concussion Litigation
On October 31, 2012, lawyers representing thousands of former NFL players filed an opposition brief to the NFL’s current motion to dismiss pending in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, insisting that...
View ArticleAs Rocky Marciano Reminds Us–The Government-Informant Privilege Applies in...
What does Rocky Mariciano, one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, have to do with evidentiary privileges? Plenty, as it turns out, for it was a libel case arising from Mariciano’s comments...
View ArticleClimate Change Legislation Post-Sandy
Even before Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast, climate change policy had been on the forefront of federal and state legislative agendas. However, the size and scope of Sandy has brought a...
View Article“How much is not enough? Blog asks whether class action litigation will...
Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch recently noted a viral Facebook photo involving a “footlong” sandwich that appeared to be less than 12 inches long:...
View ArticleA Change in the Insurance Winds–An appellate district split threatens to...
The Zhang case is a dispute following a fire at the plaintiff’s commercial property wherein the uninsured Zhang accuses the defendant-insurer of misconduct. The first two actions in the plaintiff’s...
View ArticleFrye Decision in BMW Case Results in Exclusion of Plaintiff's Experts
In a thoughtful decision handed down in Reeps v. BMW of North America, LLC, 2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 33030(u), on December 16, 2012 in New York County Supreme Court, the Hon. Louis B. York excluded the...
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