Joey Dauben really likes domain names.
A company that has registered almost 635,000 Internet domain names, Dauben Inc., adores typing mistakes. Microsoft, for example, complained about Dauben's use of 86 domain Microsofty names, including "mocrosoftoffice.com", "micriosoftsupport.com", and "otlookexpress.com".
Today the Fifth Circuit considered a preliminary injunction that barred Dauben from exploiting domain names "confusingly similar" to
The Fifth Circuit held last week that a potential contractor’s revelation of a choice between options doesn’t necessarily a trade secrets misappropriation claim make.
The case involved a dispute between CQ, Inc., and TXU Mining Co., L.P., over TXU’s solicitation of help for cleaning lignite coal. CQ applied for a TXU lignite-cleaning contract. CQ won first place standing. But TXU
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has begun ruling on transfer motions it heard on March 26 in San Diego. The Panel granted transfer and centralization in five MDL matters, denied one, deemed one moot, and declined to reconsider another.
The results:
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Transfers (transferee court in parentheses) MDL No. 2020 — In re Aetna, Inc., |
Blawgletter has worked at one place, a law firm, since getting a bar card in 1985. At some point, the firm tried to distill its approach to trial work into one document. The current version appears below:
How We Handle Cases
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In handling complex litigation, our firm is guided by two principles, both of |
Two insurance companies, National Travelers and ReliaStar, disagreed about whether Coinsurance Agreements between them had terminated. The arbitration that the Coinsurance Agreements mandated generated a finding of non-termination and a $21 million damages award to ReliaStar. The three arbitrators also ordered National Travelers to pay ReliaStar $3.8 million in attorneys' fees and expenses for conducting the
Asiana admitted fixing cargo and passenger prices on routes between Korea and the U.S.
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced today three new guilty pleas and $214 million in fines "for conspiring to fix prices in the air cargo industry."
The culpability-confessing carriers — Cargolux Airlines International S.A., Nippon Cargo Airlines
Companies that set up mutual funds — outfits like Fidelity, Vanguard, and Oppenheimer — also "advise" the funds on their investments. People who buy shares in a mutual fund pay a fee for the advisory services. And these folks depend on the fund's board of directors to hold the fee at a reasonable level.
Almost 60 years ago,lack of
The equitable remedy of accounting exists for rare cases in which "accounts between the paries are of such a complicated nature that only a court of equity can satisfactorily unravel them." Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood, 369 U.S. 469, 478 (1962) (internal quotation marks omitted). The court may appoint a special master to review
Today the Eleventh Circuit vacated a class certification order after finding "numerous flaws, both procedural and substantive" in the district court's analysis. Vega v. T-Mobile USA Inc., No. 07-13864 (11th Cir. Apr. 7, 2009).
Blawgletter sees nothing remarkable in the basic decision. The plaintiff, Henry Vega, made quite the hash of his basic claim
A new decision may change Google's ad sales model.
The Second Circuit dealt a blow last week to Google's approach to selling advertisements that appear with search results.
Rescuecom Corp., the plaintiff, accused Google of infringing the Rescuecom trademark. Google did so, the complaint said, by offering the trademark to Rescuecom's competitors as a "keyword". Once a