Internet gambling proponents suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court refused to strike down a 2006 law in which Congress banned all Internet gambling transactions that would be illegal in the gambler's state.
The New York Supreme Court, New York County, denied a motion to dismiss a complaint by a personal manager who seeks unpaid commissions from artists he managed.
The Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, affirmed a quantum meruit award based on contract-negotiation representation that attorney Todd Musburger provided to talk show personality Gary Meier.
Although alien tort claims are still relatively novel, long-standing principles of insurance law, and judicial precedents established based on more familiar fact patterns, should provide helpful guidance to companies facing these claims.
Cases of interest in neighboring states.
This article discusses the Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Rodriguez v. West Publishing Co., 563 F.3d 948 (9th Cir. 2009), that specifically considered the viability of incentive awards and their impact on the adequacy of class representatives.
The first part of this article about the Supreme Court's ruling Ricci v. De Stefano discussed what statisticians really have to say about disparate impact. The conclusion herein addresses the results of, and lessons to be learned from, the Ricci case.
National rulings you need to know.
This article examines the little-known and infrequently granted remedy of expungement in federal courts.
