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Seyfarth Shaw | Retail Detail: The Landscape Of Patent Litigation Has Changed
In response to these multi-defendant patent cases, the AIA includes a new joinder provision that heightens the claimant's pleading requirement before it may join multiple defendants in a single patent lawsuit. Prior to the AIA, NPEs generally could
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:50P
DoD, Tricare sued over data theft
by Gene Rector Air Force Times is reporting that a class action lawsuit has been filed against the Defense Department and Tricare over patient data lost in San Antonio, Texas, on Sept. 13. The suit as seeking $1000 in damages for each of the 4.9
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:47P
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP | US Class Actions with Non-US Citizens as Class
This raises numerous questions for courts, including how to deal with defendants in a class action where non-US class members may have the opportunity to bring a second, subsequent lawsuit against the same defendants in the plaintiffs' home country.
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:46P
Soldier sues Burger King over needles in Triple Stacker
Army Staff Sgt. Clark Bartholomew filed the federal lawsuit in Honolulu this week. He says he bought a Triple Stacker burger at the Schofield Barracks Burger King in December and took it home to eat. Bartholomew claims one needle pierced his tongue and
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:45P
Kirkland & Ellis | Nationwide Agents Out of Luck in Employment Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday dismissed an insurance agents' association's employment lawsuit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., saying the agents needed to show they'd been harmed by changes to their Nationwide contracts in order to
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:44P
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP | News & Events
March 17, 2011 – Neither federal bankruptcy nor federal environmental statutes address the interaction between the two areas of law. As a result, there are many questions as to how bankruptcy
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:43P
Irving ISD trustees to consider single-member districts
A lawsuit challenging the district's at-large election system did not succeed last year. But the judge said the system could be changed without another suit if the 2010 US Census showed that a district with a majority of eligible Hispanic voters could
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:43P
Ex-prison officials claim they were fired as political favor
The former superintendent for the Woods Run prison and two other top officials claim in a federal lawsuit filed today that the governor engineered their firing as a favor to the prison guards union, not because of an investigation into the sexual abuse
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:43P
West Virginia Gets Hit With Redistricting Lawsuits
CHARLESTON (AP) -- West Virginia officials have been hit with the first of several expected lawsuits challenging redistricting. Kanawha County lawyer Thornton Cooper filed his Supreme Court petition Thursday targeting the redrawing of House of
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:41P
Wellington condo association sues exterminator over termites
Sheffield Woods at Wellington Condominium Association won a $413000 jury verdict in its lawsuit against Orkin Inc. In the verdict reached Tuesday, a Hillsborough County jury found that Orkin failed to control subterranean termites and failed to
Updated: 10/14/2011 02:27P
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