• December 5, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Unjust Enrichment Claims

    The field of products liability always has inspired lawyers to use old tools in creative new ways. Indeed, strict liability was crafted from warranty and negligence principles. But as ne

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  • November 19, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Pfau Issues Order To Expedite Election Cases Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau issued an order yesterday laying out deadlines for the expedited consid

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  • September 17, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Courthouse Cost-Containment A federal courthouse building in Amarillo is among six "non-resident federal court facilities" targeted to cut costs. The rented space has a court

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  • Consolidated Cigar Corp. v. Reilly

    Publication Date: 2000-07-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2000-07-19
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Torruella, Chief Judge, Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge, and Lipez, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James V. Kearney, et al.
    for defendant: William W. Porter, et al.

    Case Number: No. 00-1274

    TORRUELLA, Chief Judge. Before the Court is a challenge to regulations promulgated by the AttorneyGeneral of Massachusetts which restrict the sale, promotion, and labeling of tobacco products in

  • January 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Legal Issues Stall Volkswagen-Porsche Merger

    Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn said Monday that a proposed merger with fellow German automaker Porsche isn't possible because of legal obstacles and tax issues that have cropped up since th

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  • January 3, 2011 | National Law Journal

    4th Circuit to settle Web search showdown

    More than three dozen technology and consumer products companies and trade groups have piled on as amici to a trademark fight between Rosetta Stone Ltd. and Google Inc. in a case that observe

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  • August 2, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    Partner Named to Federal Evidence Rules Committee Paul Shechtman, a partner with litigation boutique Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, has been named one of two privat

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  • May 2, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Sidebar

    Philly v. Jersey: You might say that Douglas Eakeley, a commercial litigation partner at Roseland, N.J.'s 150-lawyer Lowenstein Sandler, has made a career out of unpopular causes. As chairma

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  • February 12, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Score: Dodgers' Fees, Concussion Suits, and Penn State Alums

    While the various groups bidding to acquire Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers push the potential purchase price toward $1 billion, the bankrupt franchise keeps racking up legal

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  • May 29, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New City Bar Head Has Record of Public Service

    Patricia M. Hynes, who was set last night to become the 63rd president of the New York City Bar Association, brings to her new post a long commitment to public service. She

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