• Vivid Entertainment, LLC v. Fielding

    Publication Date: 2014-12-15
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    Date Filed: 2014-12-15
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges, and Jack Zouhary,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Corn-Revere (argued) and Ronald G. London, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Janet L. Grumer and Matthew D. Peterson, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California; Paul J. Cambria, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, Buffalo, New York; and H. Louis Sirkin, Santen & Hughes LPA, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Thomas R. Freeman (argued) and Mitchell A. Kamin, Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Licenberg, P.C., Los Angeles, California; and Tom Myers, Laura Boudreau, Samantha R. Azulay, and Christina Yang, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles, California, for Intervenors/Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 13-56445

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 13872 VIVID ENTERTAINMENT, LLC; CALIFA PRODUCTIONS, INC.; KAYDEN KROSS; and LOGAN PIERCE, Plaintiffs-Appellants, p class=

  • December 15, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Class Action Certification Got Tougher in 2014

    Surveying the class certification opinions from 2014 in cases involving alleged false advertising of food and beverage products demonstrates the continued difficulty in certifying these class

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  • December 15, 2014 |

    Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp.

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis  Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp.358 N.C. 160Supreme Court of North Carolina.Dan RHYNE and Alice Rhynev.K–MART…

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  • December 11, 2014 |

    Hewes v. Langston

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis Hewes v.Langston853 So.2d 1237Supreme Court of Mississippi.George P. HEWES, III and Brown &…

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  • December 11, 2014 |

    Christian v. Am. Home Assur. Co.

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis  Christianv.Am. Home Assur. Co.577 P.2d 899Supreme Court of Oklahoma.Bobby D. CHRISTIAN, Appellant,v.AMERICAN…

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  • December 11, 2014 |

    Zarrella v. Minnesota Mut. Life Ins. Co.

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis  Zarellav.Minnesota Mut. Life Ins. Co.824 A.2d 1249Supreme Court of Rhode Island.Ann ZARRELLA et…

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  • December 10, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

    How Puffery Can Blow Up Into False Advertising Litigation

    In September on CorpCounsel.com (an affiliate of the Law Journal) we wrote about the particularly dire consequences of making advertising claims supposedly supported by surveys, studie

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  • Alvarez v. Tracy

    Publication Date: 2014-12-08
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    Date Filed: 2014-12-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel L. Kaplan (briefed and argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender, and Keith J. Hilzendeger, Research and Writing Specialist, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, Arizona, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Linus Everling, General Counsel, and Thomas L. Murphy (briefed and argued), Deputy General Counsel, Gila River Indian Community Office of the General Counsel, Sacaton, Arizona, for Respondent-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 12-15788

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 13630 FORTINO ALVAREZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. RANDY TRACY, Actin

  • December 8, 2014 |

    Bausch & Lomb Inc. v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co.

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis Bausch & Lomb Inc. v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co.330 Md. 758Court of Appeals of Maryland.BAUSCH & LOMB…

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  • December 8, 2014 | National Law Journal

    Class Action Certification Got Tougher in 2014

    Surveying the class certification opinions from 2014 in cases involving alleged false advertising of food and beverage products demonstrates the continued difficulty in certifying these clas

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