Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse and Customhouse in Louisville. Construction ended in 1932 . . . a Depression year.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has summoned lawyers handling 35 different MDL matters to Louisville, Kentucky on May 27 and May 28. Several of them look mammoth.
Blawgletter cannot recall a session with so many cases
Who decides the "reasonableness" of attorney fees — judge or jury?
The Tenth Circuit held that it depends. If you ask for fees just because you won, the person in the black robe does the work. But if you seek fees as "damages", the question must go to the jury.
The dispute pitted Chevron against J.
Debra Cassens Weiss at ABA Journal reports the new U.S. News & World Report rankings of the bestest U.S. law schools (plus tuition dollarage) as follows:
1) Yale University, $46,000
2) Harvard University, $41,500
3) Stanford University, $42,080
4) Columbia University, $45,674
5) New York University, $42,890
6) University of California, Berkeley, $30,944 in-state, $43,189
The Ninth Circuit today upheld a $49 million settlement of antitrust claims against West Publishing for its rough tactics in marketing bar exam prep courses.
The panel rejected objectors' point that the district court should have judged the pact by looking at treble damages instead of single damages. "It is our impression that courts generally determine fairness
The events at issue span twenty years, resulted in congressional hearings, and involve litigation in three circuits. We are not sure if the appropriate literary metaphor belongs to Tolstoy or to Kafka, but we are going to set forth the history of this case in some detail.
Yesterday Blawgletter noted the confirmation of Christine A. Varney as the new head of the Antitrust Division in the U.S. Department of Justice. See Varney Takes Charge.
Today the Division announced that Ms. Varney has already filled six key leadership positions. They all look like heavy hitters.
The press release says:
ANTITRUST DIVISION SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 million.
Christine A. Varney, late of Hogan & Hartson, yesterday got a welcome to her new job as head of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. Attorney General Eric Holder said Varney "will help lead the Department with dedication, sound judgment and integrity . . . [in] aggressively
Hedge fund managers?
You know the financial center of gravity has shifted when the "barbarians" of the 1980s start taking pains to distinguish themselves from an upstart swarm of buccaneers.
Now the "private equity" outfits that hostilely boarded many a corporate vessel – firms like KKR, Blackstone, Carlyle Group, and TPG — pose as stodgy. In comparison
The Supreme Court of Texas today adopted "a rule short of completely barring mandamus review" of orders that compel arbitration — but only just.
Their Unanimous Honors acknowledged the court's practice of regularly granting mandamus relief from orders denying arbitration. Yes, Justice Brister explained, the court does deem the remedy of appeal from final judgment inadequate as a matter of law
The Fifth Circuit did yesterday something it does seldom — it affirmed rejection of a motion to compel arbitration. Nicholas v. KBR Inc., No. 08-20140 (5th Cir. Apr. 15, 2009).
The decision turned on whether the party seeking arbitration waived the right to get it. The Fifth Circuit agreed with the district court that
