Via Drug and Device Law ("always thoughtful, if usually misguided"):
We blogged not too long ago about the two Supreme Court personal jurisdiction cases involving so-called "stream of commerce" jurisdiction. In the Brown case we pointed out how the lower court had unprecedentedly applied the "stream of commerce" to a case involving general
Lawyers have a lot of technical training and experience. They spend three years in a hybrid humanities / vocational graduation school, devote a few months to cramming a summary of one or two state’s laws into their brains, regurgitate and forget it all over two or three days, then spend a couple years learning, through
Readers here are doubtlessly familiar with the tragic death of Declan Sullivan. Unfortunately, Declan’s death was not, in the big sense, unusual: every day, people die in the course of jobs they suspect to be dangerous. The intense media focus on Declan’s case, however, gives us a unique opportunity to explore the serious —
[Update, May 2012: Leo E. Strine, Jr., Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, referenced this post in his thoughtful new law review article, Our Continuing Struggle With the Idea That For-Profit Corporations Seek Profit, 47 Wake Forest L. Rev. 135 (2012).]
[Updates: Francis Pileggi has his take (courtesy
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Corporate Counsel reported yesterday:
The new federal whistleblower law is proving a hot item for many plaintiff law firms. Attorneys say that tipsters with visions
As you, the reader of a legal blog, undoubtedly know, earlier today Judge Walker released his opinion in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which everyone knows as the Proposition 8 suit. (Back when it was filed, I wrote about why the suit was against Schwarzenegger, rather that against the State of California.)
As you also know, the
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Yesterday the Third Circuit released a unanimous precedential opinion in Reedy v. Evanson:
While working as a cashier at a convenience store, nineteen-year-old Sara R. Reedy was sexually assaulted and robbed at gunpoint by a serial sex offender. She reported the crime to
As The Legal Intelligencer reported,
When a top-level executive suddenly quits to take a job at a competing firm, the courts have the power to block the start of the new employment if the evidence shows that such an injunction is needed to prevent a likely misappropriation of trade secrets, the 3rd U.S. Circuit
The False Claim Act envisions a broad definition under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(b) for when a defendant “knowingly” makes a false or fraudulent claim to the federal government:
(b) Knowing and Knowingly Defined.— For purposes of this section, the terms “knowing” and “knowingly” mean that a person, with respect to information—
(1) has actual knowledge
Talking Points Memo reports the latest on the Shirley Sherrod fiasco:
Shirley Sherrod said this morning on CNN that she would like to “get back at” Andrew Breitbart.
Asked if she would consider a defamation suit against Breitbart, the conservative blogger who posted the edited clip that got her fired, she said, “I really