• November 7, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Fosamax MCL Moved to Middlesex County

    MULTICOUNTY LITIGATION REASSIGNMENT – FOSAMAXA notice was previously published advising of the Supreme Court's October 6, 2008 Order designating all pending and future litiga

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  • November 7, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Levaquin MCL Moved to Middlesex

    MULTICOUNTY LITIGATION REASSIGNMENT – LEVAQUINA notice was previously published advising of the Supreme Court's June 16, 2009 Order designating all pending and future litigat

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  • Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-11-06
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    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2014-11-05
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: McKenna Long & Aldridge, Thomas F. Winfield III and Michael H. Wallenstein for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Mayer Brown, Donald Falk, Neil M. Soltman, Michael F. Kerr, Germain D. Labat, Matthew Marmolego; Cooley, Steven M. Strauss, M. Ray Hartman III and Summer J. Wynn for Defendants and Appellants.

    Case Number: No. B242864

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 12633 UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. S

  • November 1, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

    Patent Law Made Easier

    What a difference six months can make. A two-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in September that a method for guaranteeing online financial transactions

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  • October 30, 2014 | The Recorder

    Ninth Circuit Clears Path for ERISA Suits

    SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs lawyers are cheering after an early test seemed to confirm that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision will make it easier for workers to hold their employ

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  • Harris v. Amgen, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-10-30
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    Date Filed: 2014-10-30
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Jerome Farris and William A. Fletcher, Circuit Judges, and Edward R. Korman, Senior District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen J. Fearon, Jr. and Garry T. Stevens, Jr., Squitieri & Fearon, LLP, New York, New York; Stephen M. Fishback and Daniel L. Keller, Keller, Fishback & Jackson, LLP, Tarzana, California; Francis M. Gregorek, Betsy C. Manifold, and Rachele R. Rickert, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, LLP, San Diego, California, Mark C. Rifkin (argued), Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, LLP, New York, New York; and Thomas James McKenna, Gainey & McKenna, New York, New York, for Appellants.
    for defendant: Emily Seymour Costin, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Steven Oliver Kramer and Jonathan David Moss, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan Rose, Alston & Bird, LLP, Washington, D.C.; John Nadolenco, Mayer Brown, LLP, Los Angeles, California; Brian David Netter, Mayer Brown, LLP, Washington, D.C.; and Robert P. Davis (argued), Mayer Brown, LLP, New York, New York, for Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 10-56014

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 12366 STEVE HARRIS; DENNIS F. RAMOS, AKA Dennis Ramos; DONALD HANKS; JORGE TORRES; ALBERT CAPPA, On Behalf of Themselves and All O

  • October 29, 2014 | National Law Journal

    Actos Punitives Verdict Remains 'Really, Really High'

    A federal judge reduced a $9 billion jury verdict in the first federal trial over diabetes drug Actos by 99 percent, but what’s left still would rank among the largest punitiv

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  • October 29, 2014 | The American Lawyer

    Patent Litigation Shows No Signs of Going Out of Style

    In 2013 the number of patent litigation lawsuits filed in U.S. district court rose yet again, demonstrating that companies will do whatever it takes to protect their intellectua

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  • October 28, 2014 | The Recorder

    Ninth Circuit Hands Target a Win, and a Warning, on Defibrillators

    SAN FRANCISCO — Large retailers do not have a duty to keep defibrillators on their premises to aid customers in case of cardiac arrest, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circ

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  • Verdugo v. Target Corporation

    Publication Date: 2014-10-28
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    Date Filed: 2014-10-28
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Otis D. Wright II, District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson, Susan P. Graber, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Griffith Eisenstein, David G. Eisenstein Law Offices, Carlsbad, California; Robert A. Roth, Tarkington, O'Neill, Barrack & Chong, Berkeley, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Ryan Moore Craig and Benjamin R. Trachtman, Trachtman & Trachtman, Mission Viejo, California; Donald Manwell Falk and Richard Caldarone, Mayer Brown LLP, Palo Alto, California, for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 10-57008

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 12286 MICHAEL VERDUGO, brother of Decedent; ROSEMARY VERDUGO, mother, successor and heir of Mary Ann Verdugo, Decedent, Plaintiffs