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 ...

56% of lawyers personally maintain a presence in an online community/social network such as Facebook, LinkedIn, LawLink, or Legal OnRamp. This compares with 43% in the 2009 and 15% in the 2008. Such are the findings of the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center Survey of ABA ...

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 ...

When Is a Liquidation not Really a Liquidation? When It's a Chapter 7 Case in Arizona! So how often does a Chapter 7 bankruptcy get filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona? Well, the last time I checked, pretty frequently. About 82% of all cases filed, if I remember my ...

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, ...

The local and national news has picked up on the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy filing of American Shingle & Siding, Inc.  The case was filed on September 2, 2010, as Chapter 7 Case No. 10-85541-MGD (click here for the petition).  The schedules were not filed with the petition, but the peti ...

From an unpublished California Court of Appeal opinion, : Robbins v. Taylor It is a rare case in which the person who allegedly engaged in complicated machinations to disguise his true ownership of a corporation — purportedly in an effort to deceive those who had business dealings wi ...