Justice Department Opposes New Google Book SettlementThis posting was written by Darius Sturmer, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.Despite the substantial progress reflected in the proposed amended settlement agreement in The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc., the U.S. Department of Jus ...

Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: Please settle this quickly-escalating dispute between me and my fiancée. She calls it a "sleazy lap dance at a strip club." I call it "humanitarian aid." Who is right? Answer: Did the ev ...

Opponents of the plaintiffs' bar stepped up their rhetoric today with the release of a report trying to detail the lawyers' influence in Washington. The report is part of a series called Trial Lawyers Inc., produced by the New York-based...

Below is a Reuter’s article about the first Bear Stearns High Grade Fund arbitration case won by an investor. John Rich and Ross Intelisano of Rich & Intelisano, LLP were lead trial counsel and Jake Zamansky and Ted Glenn of Zamansky & Associates were co-counsel. "Investor in Defunct Bear Fund Win ...

On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asked California's largest for profit health insurance provider, Anthem Blue Cross, to send a letter detailing what she termed an "extraordinary" rate hike proposed for California customers. Blue Cross is owned by parent company Well P ...

Judgment enforcement is a tricky thing. It's even harder when there are multiple creditors going after the same pot of money. In the case of Full Throttle Films, Inc. v. National Mobile Television, creditor Full Throttle tried to collect ~$400k....

In October, we mentioned that the giant department store, Macy's, was having some trouble disposing of its sensitive documents. Reports surfaced that internal documents, some of which included the Social Security numbers of Macy's customers, were being disposed of on the streets of St. Louis, in lid ...

By –       Kurt R. Karst Two recent rulings out of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania stemming from allegations about antitrust violations from the submission of citizen petitions have once again raised the issue of so-called “sham” citizen petitions and, insofa ...

By: JORDAN ROBERTSON AP Technology Writer Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a wa ...

Judge Vaughn Walker, the presiding judge in the trial over California’s Prop 8, has been outed by the San Francisco Chronicle.  “The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S ...