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Fourth Circuit Makes Bid to Let Agencies Ban Mandatory Arbitration

By Barry Barnett on December 11, 2013

BedbugThe Fourth Circuit ruled that Rent-a-Center (RAC) won't have to answer in court for leasing a trundle bed full of bedbugs to Christine and Antwan Seney.

The vermin had bitten the Seneys' son, for whom they'd gotten the trundle, and when RAC retrieved the rental its movers dragged the bed through the Seneys' home, spreading…

Posted in Class Actions, Commercial, Corporate, and Contracts

U.S. E-Book Complaint Lays Out “Agency” Pact with Apple

By Barry Barnett on April 11, 2012

You've likely heard by now that the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple and a bunch of e-book publishers for fixing prices on, well, e-books.

You can see the complaint here.

The key part comes in paragraph 7, which explains Apple's "agency" plan for thwarting Amazon's effort to cut all…

Posted in Antitrust, Class Actions, Intellectual Property

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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