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• BLOG: Supreme Court hears arguments in the Bilski case

  
  IAM Magazine — Authority: 127
  The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Bilski case this afternoon in Washington DC. One of those in the courtroom was Pavan Agarwal, a partner at law firm Foley & Lardner. I have just received this brief report from him on what happened today:The Supreme Court showed great interest in understanding the ...
  5 hours ago

• Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked to Mom of Criticized Teen

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 676
  An Illinois judge has decided that an anonymous commenter on a newspaper website will be unmasked, even though the mother of a teen about whom "Hipcheck16" allegedly made "deeply disturbing" comments hasnt yet decided whether to sue over the posting. The mother, Lisa Stone, is a trustee of Buffalo Grove in suburban ...
  6 hours ago

• Shell Must Pay $19.5 million judgment for Environmental Violations at California Stations

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 144
  OAKLAND, Calif. -- After finding "hundreds of environmental violations" at Shell gas stations statewide, California attorney general Edmund G. Brown Jr. said that his office has secured a $19.5 million judgment against the oil company and its affiliates, which will ensure compliance with the states hazardous waste and ...
  7 hours ago

• Bankruptcy Litigation in Usa

  
  Finance 411 — Authority: 450
  
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• Blog Glob: "Hawaii civil jury trials becoming a vanishing breed"

  
  idealawg — Authority: 431
  Excerpt: The “vanishing trial” is resulting in less courtroom experience for Hawaii’s litigators as parties on both sides of legal disputes seek faster and cheaper ways to resolve their differences. ... Even as the recession caused a spike in the number of civil lawsuits filed in Hawaii’s circuit courts ...
  12 hours ago

• Update: Jury Returns Verdict for University of Washington in Rape Case

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 130
  The jury hearing the civil case against UW arising out of an alleged rape of a student by a football player has returned a verdict for the defendants. According to the Seattle Times, the jury found UW not liable on the narrow reasoning that the plaintiffs educational opportunities had not been sufficiently harmed ...
  12 hours ago

• Scheduled SCOTUS Oral Arguments in Bilski v. Kappos – November 9, 2009.

  
  Anticipate This! | Patent and Trademark Law Blog — Authority: 103
  Oral arguments in Bilski v. Kappos are scheduled for today, November 9, 2009 .  Previous AT! coverage of Bilski here , here , here , and here . In short, the CAFC in  Bilski has held that business methods are not patentable unless they satisfy the machine-or-transformation test.  In other words, ...
  14 hours ago

• Banks Commercial Loan "Nightmare" and Other Web Notes

  
  The D & O Diary — Authority: 467
  The onslaught of bank closures continues. The FDIC’s closure of five more banks this past Friday night brings the 2009 YTD total number of bank failures to 120 – including twenty-one in just the last three weeks alone. There are a variety of reasons for the growing number of bank failures, but clearly one ...
  18 hours ago

• Best Scheduling Software for Lawyers Allows Planning of Cases and Court Deadlines

  
  VST Platinum Blog — Authority: 153
  Do you know the difference between ‘reacting’ to your schedule and actually ‘planning’ your schedule out? Busy lawyers and law firms must be able to plan out their cases and future deadlines and not just react to them. Trialschedule online scheduling software for lawyers and law firms finally allows ...
  18 hours ago

• Federal Statutes Aid Trade Secret Prosecution

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By John Watkins , Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil The protection of trade secrets through litigation has generally been limited to civil lawsuits, typically filed under state law statutory or common law provisions. This is true even though federal and state statutes have provided criminal penalties ...
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• NHL Finally Takes Ownership of Phoenix Coyotes

  
  CONNECTICUT SPORTS LAW — Authority: 419
  By Dan Canavan After obtaining approval from Bankruptcy Judge Redfield T. Baum, the NHL officially became the owner of your Phoenix Coyotes on November 2, 2009.  After a series of bankruptcy setoffs and other creditor transactions, the NHL paid approximately $140 million for the Coyotes.  The NHL and the other ...
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• Francis gone free: Time served, probation and restitution for soft porn mogul

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 663
  Filed under: Internet , Scandals , Media World Finally, the federal government has accepted an offer from Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis. Earlier this year, the feds turned down his request for bailout money , but the filmmaker entrepreneur executive soft-core porn guru had better luck with the ...
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• BLOG: 3Com gets religion, but too late to save jobs and a once thriving business

  
  IAM Magazine — Authority: 127
  On 9th October, a company called US Ethernet Innovations LLC filed a lawsuit in the US against a number companies - including Acer, Apple, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett Packard, Sony, and Toshiba - which alleged that each has infringed a series of patents relating to ethernet technology. US Ethernet ...
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• 3Com gets religion, but too late to save jobs and a once thriving business

  
  IAM magazine - Blog — Authority: 124
  On 9th October, a company called US Ethernet Innovations LLC filed a lawsuit in the US against a number companies - including Acer, Apple, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett Packard, Sony, and Toshiba - which alleged that each has infringed a series of patents relating to ethernet technology. US Ethernet ...
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• Securities Law - Global Claiming - Are US Judgments Actually Binding

  
  GlobalTort — Authority: 129
  So, where and when are US tort and securities judgments binding on persons who live outside the US, and why should does it matter? Lets start with the latter question - why does it matter. Suppose, for example, a US bankrupcty court purports to enter a global injunction that bars future asbestos claims that anyone in ...
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• Being a Witness

  
  Sam Hasler's Indiana Divorce & Family Law Blog — Authority: 127
  Welcome to the hardest job most people will experience in the legal system - being a witness. From twenty-two years of conversations, I think it is safe to assume that most people do not realize that a witness testimony is evidence.  The Indiana Rules of Evidence devotes a whole article to witnesses .  Yes, words ...
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• How To Get the Birth Injury Attorney That You Need

  
  BabyNames& FamilyIssuesBlog — Authority: 149
  This article will be of assistance in finding a competent Birth Injury Attorney if your child suffered a birth injury. Five out of every one thousand live births involves a birth injury of some sort. Birth injuries can entail permanent injuries that will encumber the child throughout his or her life. Consequently, a ...
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• Should Anyone Rely On Asbestos Lawyers For High Compensation?

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 163
  Asbestos lawyers are there to fight for the worker that was exposed to asbestos. Since many companies continued to knowingly expose their employees to asbestos despite strict laws and heavy penalties, a good attorney is essential to achieving the closest thing to justice that you can. While some companies literally ...
  2 days ago

• Editorial: Quick, Patent It!

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A method for hedging financial risk in energy trading is a type of abstraction that should not qualify for a patent.
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• Letter: Yale’s ‘Innocent Mistakes’

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  To the Editor:.
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