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March 27, 2008 |

Parody of Wal-Mart trumps its trademark

Computer store owner Charles Smith has won a two-year legal battle with Wal-Mart, which has demanded he stop making and selling T-shirts and other items with slogans such as "Wal-ocaust" and "Wal-Qaeda." U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. found that Smith's products qualified as protected noncommercial speech because his goal was to criticize Wal-Mart, not to make a profit from his products. The judge noted that Smith had sold only 62 T-shirts, including 15 to one of Wal-Mart's outside law firms.
8 minute read
February 05, 2013 |

Vic Reynolds will be hands on as Cobb DA

Cobb County's new district attorney, Vic Reynolds (above), is an affable but disciplined teetotaler who likes sweet tea, popcorn and Labrador retrievers, and plans to personally prosecute some violent defendants and turn up the heat on all white collar criminals, particularly those who prey on the elderly.
5 minute read
October 07, 2011 |

Wal-Mart brings in consultants to stock shelves

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., once a case study in moving and selling goods, is now turning to consultants for help with the most basic of retail tasks: Keeping its shelves stocked.
5 minute read
May 01, 2013 |

$1M Settlement In Fatal Surgery

The attorney representing the sons of a woman who died when a surgical procedure went awry said the Fulton State Court jury had scarcely left the jury box to begin deliberations when his defense counterpart walked over and offered to settle for the doctor's $1 million policy limit. Steve Pickens (above left), and Shawn Bratton represented the plaintiffs in the death of a woman during outpatient surgery.
6 minute read
February 12, 2007 |

Payments to Wal-Mart plaintiff 'irregular'

Milberg, Weiss & Bershad's move to dismiss came just two weeks after the federal judge handling the case told the defense they could probe "highly irregular" payments to the lead plaintiff by the local counsel.
6 minute read
June 20, 2011 |

Supreme Court erects major barriers to class actions in Wal-Mart ruling

The Supreme Court on Monday handed a sweeping victory to Wal-Mart, the nation's largest employer, in the company's decade-long effort to thwart a discrimination class action filed on behalf of more than 1 million female current and former workers. The ruling is likely to hobble other large employment class actions as well.
6 minute read
February 14, 2013 |

Ford and allies try to stem retrials

A legal battle that could change the outcome in product liability cases all over the state escalated Tuesday in oral arguments at the Georgia Court of Appeals. Judge Michael Boggs (above) pressed Ford on a decision against the company in a similar case.
6 minute read
April 10, 2013 |

ABA Techshow: South by Southeast

The southeast exhibit hall at the ABA Techshow in the Hilton Chicago was more densely packed with vendors than the southwest hall. Sean Doherty, LTN's technology editor, was not able to get through it all in a day but managed to get some news and hear David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times and Scientific American, declare the end of email.
8 minute read
June 14, 2004 |

U.S. firms eye the Great Wall

China's evolution toward an open economy is enticing several law firms to expand into the global market.
7 minute read
March 01, 2010 |

Opposites Attract

Craigslist & eBay are as different as Windows 7 & DOS, but both save money & energy.
8 minute read

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