By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Pfizer Inc., et al.v. Mylan Inc. et al. 1:10-cv-06463; filed August 20, 2010 in the Southern District of New York • Plaintiffs: Pfizer Inc.; Pfizer Products Inc.; C.P. Pharmaceuticals ...

The essence of traditional international trade theory is that poorer countries produce goods and services with resources that they have in abundance, mainly low skilled labor and sometimes natural resources. They export these goods, and import goods from the richer countries that require s ...

LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. v. Whirlpool Corp., 2010 WL 3397358 (N.D. Ill.)Previous reporting in this case that is exploring the increasing role of materiality in false advertising cases. Whirlpool moved to exclude LG’s damages expert Mohan Rao and portions of the rebuttal expert report of LG’s ...

In an April 29, 2010 complaint against JG Wentworth posted on complaintsboard.com, a South Addiosn , Maine woman descirbes the horror show that a woman with closed head injury allegedly suffered suffered at the hands of JG Wentworth in a chilling warning to state and federal governmental regulators. ...

[JURIST] Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran [GlobaLex backgrounder] on Saturday concluded the one-day trial of Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election [JURIST news archive]. During the Tehran trial, conducted by head judge Pyrbasy, Ahari faced char ...

When Courts and Congress Don’t Say What They Mean: Initial Reactions to Morrison v. National Australia Bank and to the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Provisions of the Dodd-Frank, by Richard W. Painter, University of Minnesota Law School; Douglas Dunham, Skadden, Arps, Slate,...

Defendant was charged as a result of a search warrant executed on computers and a server where he worked. It is clear he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the computer files to have standing to challenge whether the search was overbroad or became a general warrant. United States v. Nagle, ...

Andrew Cohen has an to this past week's commutation by the Governor of Ohio of the death sentence that had been facing Kevin Keith despite his claims of innocence ( ). The commentary is titled "Death Row Reprieve: Does Ohio Also Owe Kevin Keith a New Trial?", and here is one of many ...

[This is the headline over a report by Marcello Mega on page 44 of today's Scottish edition of The Mail on Sunday. The story does not (as yet) appear on the newspaper's website. The following excerpts have accordingly been typed out by me.]The Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is to publis ...

Borys Grochulski (University of Minnesota, Department of Economics) & Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia Business School) have published Risky Human Capital and Deferred Capital Income Taxation, 145 J. Econ. Theory 908 (2010). Here is the abstract: We study the structure of optimal wedges and capital taxes ...