Trying cases
Trial lawyers believe they pay a trial judge a high compliment when they say "she'll let you try your case."
The praise implies a few things — that the judge doesn't make you do everything exactly the way she did when she practiced law, doesn't interrupt you on cross right as you go
The old firm used phone lines to help state fish and wildlife agencies issue fishing and hunting licenses. A new outfit said it did the same thing, only better, by employing the Internet.
Hoping to seize the future, the old firm buys the new one for about $1 million. Then it finds out the Internet-using
In the last 30 days, two U.S. courts of appeals have held (sort of) that no "settlement privilege" — a right to deny others access to the terms of your settlements with third-parties — exists.
In the first case, the Federal Circuit ruled, "in light of reason and experience, . . . that settlement negotiations
Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and almost the right word means the difference between "lightning" and "lightning bug".
Tell that to the Andersons of Mountrial County, North Dakota. The family lost a case because "drilling" doesn't mean the same thing as "drilling operations".
On May 3, 2004 and May 10, 2004, they
Can you use images that have fallen into the public domain without infringing the copyrights in them?
Yes and no, the Eighth Circuit held today.
The case dealt with pictures that movie studios used to promote Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Tom & Jerry shorts. Art & Vintage Entertainment
Each time you buy something with a debit card, you and the issuer of your card pay an "interchange" fee for using the network that handles the purchase. Visa and MasterCard run the biggest networks and reap the most fees — directly from your card issuer and indirectly from you.
A new law, the
If you work much on antitrust lawsuits, you learn the names of cases that inspire strong feelings on both sides of the "v." Concord Boat lives in that realm.
The Eighth Circuit ruled after a jury trial in Concord Boat Corp. v. Brunswick Corp., 207 F.3d 1039 (8th Cir. 2000), that 24 boat-makers had no antitrust