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• The Simple Solution To Judicial Immunity In The Luzerne County Corruption Case

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  Ashby Jones at the Wall Street Journal reports on absolute judicial immunity : In January, federal prosecutors filed fraud charges against Mark A. Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan, judges on the Luzerne County, Pa., Court of Common Pleas. Prosecutors alleged that the judges sent numerous juveniles to detention ...
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• A Panoply Of Cases On The Plain Meaning Rule In The Third Circuit

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  One of the positive parts of being involved with The Philadelphia Inquirers bankruptcy is, though Ive had to slog my way through over 1,500 separate filings (most of which are irrelevant to my clients) since The Inquirer filed bankruptcy in February, Ive also been privy to extraordinarily exhaustive briefings of ...
  2 days ago

• Representation, Outcomes, and Fairness in Legal Proceedings

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 535
  As my colleague Rebecca Blemberg recently blogged about , California has moved in the direction of recognizing a right to counsel for civil litigants with critical legal needs. The concept of a constitutional right to counsel in certain civil cases is often referred to as “ Civil Gideon, ” after the Supreme ...
  4 days ago

• The Verdict? A Very Successful Civil Trial Conference

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 535
  One of this Law School’s most noteworthy legacies is its production of many of the region’s most outstanding trial lawyers.  The legacy was fully evident on Friday, November 6, 2009 at the Civil Trial Evidence and Litigation Conference.  The sold-out event served as a “last call for Sensenbrenner Hall” of ...
  4 days ago

• Need to Subpoena Facebook or Other Social Media Sites?

  
  Wisconsin Lawyers Blog — Authority: 91
  Are you a tech savvy lawyer?  In order to answer “yes” you have to check out this site that directs you to the departments that will accept service of process for many websites.  I recently wrote about this at www.jonpgroth.com. For example, how would you know that Facebook has an email just for subpoenas ( ...
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• How Does Spousal Privilege Apply to Gay Marriage?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  The recent endorsement of same-sex marriage by a few states is raising some unexpected but inevitable legal issues. Specifically, the Volokh Conspiracy points out that courts now need to grapple with the effects of same-sex marriage on civil litigation and criminal trials. To wit, do the confidentiality provisions for ...
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• Wachtell, Bank of America, and The Limits of Advocacy

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  I have no problem criticizing Bank of America for deceptive conduct or blaming Wachtell for the failure of a legal stategy , but theres nothing obviously wrong with this : Eric Roth, a litigation partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz , apparently was telling the Bank of America Corp. leadership one ...
  2 weeks ago

• If Youre "Not Certain" Youll Be Joined To An Existing Lawsuit, Tell Your Insurance Carrier About It Anyway

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  Really, you should : The New York Court of Appeals held Pepper Hamilton had a duty to disclose in advance to the insurers the firms potential involvement in litigation concerning fraudulent loan securitization activities by its client, Student Finance Corp., according to a New York Law Journal article reprinted ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Ethics of Internal Corporate Investigations by In-House Counsel

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  At Legal Ethics Blog , Professor Andrew Perlman posts a hypothetical: I was recently a panelist at the Association of Corporate Counsels annual conference, and someone in the audience posed an interesting hypothetical. Imagine that in-house counsel is conducting an internal investigation and speaks with an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quinn Emmanuel v. Lucius Seneca and Sun Tzu On Checking Email 24/7

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  Yesterday, after posting a link to a productivity guide recommending email be checked twice daily, I saw this leaked email from a big name at a litigation powerhouse: Now more than ever there are many talented lawyers and law firms competing for our business. Doing really good legal work is not enough. Clients ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Game Theory Model of Medical Malpractice Settlements and Insurance Bad Faith

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  In a comment on Overlawyered , Ted Frank points to his draft paper (with Marie Gryphon), Negotiating in the Shadow of Bad Faith Refusal to Settle: A Game Theory Model of Medical Malpractice Pre-Trial Settlements and Insurance Limits : Recent empirical studies of Texas data by Hyman et al, Zeiler et al, and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Academic Abstention Should Not Be a Blank Check for Arbitrary and Capricious Conduct by Universities

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  Via Atrios , we have Stanley Fishs recent NYTimes column, The Rise and Fall of Academic Abstention : As recently as 1979, legal academics Virginia Nordin and Harry Edwards were able to say that “historically American courts have adhered fairly consistently to the doctrine of academic abstention in order to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reinert on the Actual Success of Bivens Claims and Its Implications for the Constitutional Rights of Federal Employees

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 535
  Alex Reinert (Cardozo) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming article in the Stanford Law Review : Measuring the Success of Bivens Litigation and its Consequences for the Individual Liability Model . Here’s the abstract: In Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics , 403 U.S. 388 (1971), ...
  4 weeks ago

• Twombly and Iqbal: Reality Check

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  In Bell Atlantic v. Twombly (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal (2009), the Supreme Court gave trial courts more latitude to dismiss a lawsuit at a very early stage, before the parties have had a chance to engage in discovery (the often lengthy and expensive fact-finding stage of civil litigation), if judges think the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Supreme Court To Review Enron "Honest Services" Mail Fraud Conviction

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  SCOTUSBlog reports : The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to rule on claims that “searing media attacks” on longtime Enron executive Jeffrey K. Skilling tainted his criminal trial and conviction on various fraud charges.  The case of Skilling v. U.S. ( 08-1394) also raises an issue on the scope of the federal ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pennsylvania Right-To-Know Lawsuits Piling Up; Is It Time For Fee-Shifting?

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 504
  The Philadelphia Inquirer reports : Since the beginning of the year, a new Pennsylvania law on public records has been sending tremors through state and local governments. Unprecedented numbers of citizens, civic groups, reporters and businesses have filed thousands of requests for government documents and data. ...
  8 weeks ago

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