• Mountain Air Enterprises, LLC v. Sundowner Towers, LLC

    Publication Date: 2017-07-31
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Civil Procedure
    Industry: Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-07-31
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Ehrlich Law Firm, Jeffrey I. Ehrlich; Law Office of Erik A. Humber and Erik A. Humber for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Abramson & Brown, Law Offices of Joe R. Abramson, Joe R. Abramson; Degani & Galston, Law Office of Katharine J. Galston and Katharine J. Galston for Defendants and Appellants.

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    Assertion of affirmative defense not "action" (Chin, J.)

  • July 26, 2017 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    DNA Sequencing Patent Feud Sparks New Court Fight

    Peace broke out last week between rivals Illumina Inc. and Qiagen N.V. as the companies settled a contentious suit in California. But before lawyers could pack up their files, a new patent war was taking shape in Delaware.

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  • July 25, 2017 | The Recorder

    DNA Sequencing Patent Feud Sparks New Court Fight

    Peace broke out last week between rivals Illumina Inc. and Qiagen N.V. as the companies settled a contentious suit in California. But before lawyers could pack up their files, a new patent war was taking shape in Delaware.

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  • Abbey House Media v. Simon & Schuster, 16-305-cv

    Publication Date: 2017-07-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Antitrust | Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Kearse, Hall, Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant: Harold R. Collins, Donald R. Pepperman, and Taylor C. Wagniere, on the brief, Maxwell M. Blecher, Blecher Collins & Pepperman, P.C., Los Angeles, California.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee Simon & Schuster, Inc.: James W. Quinn and Yehudah L. Buchweitz, on the brief, Gregory Silbert, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York. For Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee Penguin Group (USA) LLC: Saul P. Morgenstern, Margaret A. Rogers, and Alice C.C. Huling, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, New York. For Defendant-Appellee Hachette Book Group, Inc.: Linda H. Martin and Samuel J. Rubin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, New York. For Defendant-Appellee HarperCollins Publishers, L.L.C.: C. Scott Lent, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, New York. For Defendants-Appellees Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, DBA Macmillan and Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GMBH: Joel M. Mitnick, John J. Lavelle, and Bianca Cadena, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, New York.

    Case Number: 16-305-cv

    Book Publishers Defeat Antitrust Appeals at C

  • Diesel Ebooks v. Simon & Schuster, 16-726-cv

    Publication Date: 2017-07-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Antitrust | Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Kearse, Hall, Chin, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant: Collin R. White, on the brief, Derek T. Ho, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee Simon & Schuster, Inc.: James W. Quinn and Yehudah L. Buchweitz, on the brief, Gregory Silbert, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York. For Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, DBA Macmillan and Defendant-Appellee Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GMBH: Joel M. Mitnick, John J. Lavelle, and Bianca Cadena, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, New York. For Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee Hachette Book Group, Inc.: Linda H. Martin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, New York, and Samuel J. Rubin, Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, New York. For Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C.: Charles Scott Lent, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, New York. For Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee Penguin Group (USA) LLC: Saul P. Morgenstern, Margaret A. Rogers, and Alice C.C. Huling, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, New York.

    Case Number: 16-726-cv

    Book Publishers Defeat Antitrust Appeals at C

  • July 17, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Book Publishers Defeat Antitrust Appeals at Circuit

    The suits were filed by independent publishers in response to the Second Circuit's earlier ruling that Apple and five publishing companies, all of whom were party to the current suit, had conspired when they simultaneously switched from a wholesale business model to an agency pricing model, but the court agreed that neither company could attribute its demise to the unlawful conspiracy.

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  • June 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal

    Fees Rejected in Madoff Feeder Fund Settlement

    Attorney fees are too high in the $1.34 billion final distribution agreement with Tremont Group Holdings Inc., Bernie Madoff's second-largest feeder fund that lost billions in the Ponzi scheme collapse, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said.

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  • June 18, 2017 | The American Lawyer

    Deal Watch: Five Firms Advise on Amazon's Bid to Buy Whole Foods

    Wachtell, Weil, Sullivan & Cromwell, Paul Hastings and Latham & Watkins are advising various parties on e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc.'s $13.4 billion offer to acquire organic upscale grocery Whole Foods Markets Inc.

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  • June 15, 2017 | National Law Journal

    These 3 IP Boutiques Still Reign at Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    Intellectual property boutiques Fish & Richardson; Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner; and Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox maintain dominant positions in America Invents Act litigation, but global Am Law 50 firms continue making inroads at the PTAB.

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  • June 14, 2017 | The Recorder

    Weil v. Elliott

    9th Cir.; 16-55359 The court of appeals reversed a bankruptcy court judgment and remanded. The court held that the 12-month statute of limitations on…

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