Way back on January 5, Blawgletter summarized the four antitrust cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has taken on for its 2006 Term. For convenience, we’ll reproduce the summary here:
This item appeared in the October 2006 issue of Barnett’s Notes on Commercial Litigation.
I don’t watch Curb Your Enthusiasm, but a recent incident prompted me to run an Internet search on it. And on that Googling hangs a story.
The American Lawyer published an article about the firm during my first year as
Remember Mr. Freeze?
The D.C. Circuit today upheld a preliminary injunction freezing all assets of a company that participated in a fraudulent scheme. The scam involved a consultant that the plaintiff, Ellipso, Inc., hired to obtain financing for it. The consultant got the loan alright, but he didn’t disclose that he held a personal financial
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877).
Commodore Vanderbilt, railroad and shipping magnate and robber baron, nicely summed up why we have a court system:
What do I care for law? Hain’t I got the power?
Barry Barnett
The Federal Circuit issued two patent law decisions today. In the first, the court reversed a judgment of infringement against the manufacturer of a generic alternative to Pfizer’s Norvasc, which treats hypertension and angina. After a bench trial, the district court rejected the defendant’s "obviousness" defense, but the Federal Circuit disagreed, holding as a matter
The Eighth Circuit gave the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club, Minnesota chapter, a reprieve today. The federal government brought the case under the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 with the goal of seizing the Angels’ clubhouse. The government alleged that the Angels used the clubhouse to sell methamphetamine. According to the allegations, Club members
These guys have nothing to do with the case.
Blawgletter doesn’t often cover decisions from Florida’s intermediate appellate courts, but a decision out of West Palm Beach today justifies a deviation from the norm.
The ruling arises from the purchase of Sunbeam stock by a company that financier Ronald Perelman controls. The buyer sued Morgan
The Supreme Court of the United States Blog today presents an enlightening analysis of Monday’s decision in Regents of the University of California v. Credit Suisse First Boston (USA), Inc., No. 06-20856 (5th Cir. Mar. 19, 2007). (See Blawgletter posts here and here.)
SCOTUSblog notes, among other things, that Regents may enhance
The Eighth Circuit held today that the Federal Communications Commission acted within its authority in preempting state regulation of Internet telephone service — which goes by the popular name Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP. The court rejected challenges to the FCC’s determination that federal rules must prevail due to the impracticability of figuring out
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