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Attorney Seeks to Combine 100-Plus Lawsuits Over Gulf Oil Spill
An attorney wants more than 100 lawsuits filed against BP and other companies involved in the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill combined quickly in a single federal court to avoid what he called legal chaos that could delay potential payments of billions of dollars in damages. Louisiana lawyer Daniel Becnel on Wednesday asked a federal judicial panel to order the lawsuits in five Gulf Coast states centralized in New Orleans or a federal court elsewhere in Louisiana, the state so far hardest hit by the spill.
Coming up With Rules for the Driverless Road
Google's self-driving car is just around the corner. But regulators and lawyers have to figure a few things out first. Like, what happens when one crashes?Woman Wins $2.7 Million in Wrongful Firing Suit
A federal jury has awarded nearly $2.7 million to a woman who said she was forced out of her job when she declined to lie on behalf of a man accused of sexual harassment. Loretta Aqeel claimed that the director of the nonprofit agency she worked for cut her salary by 40 percent, fired her when she protested and hindered her efforts to obtain another job. Ironically, the verdict Aqeel won last month is more than 46 times what was collected by the woman who claimed she was sexually harassed.
Third Circuit Restates Prediction of Third Restatement Adoption in Pa.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has sent a strong signal that the federal trial courts in Pennsylvania should apply the Restatement (Third) of Torts, not the Restatement (Second) of Torts, to products liability cases in an order issued this week.High-Tech Forensics Labs Fight Corporate Cybercrimes
Kris Haworth pounded away at her keyboard, navigating a labyrinth of computer data in her search for evidence. The board of directors for a $5 billion company suspected revenues were being inflated. Using data-mining and tracking software so powerful that they once qualified as government secrets, she found what the directors were looking for in e-mails thought to have been deleted.Technolawyer.com: What's Next?
For lawyers and firms shaping technology plans, Dennis Kennedy has some predictions for what the rest of the year will bring to the world of legal technology, and he asks other tech experts for their views. What's on everyone's mind? Outliners, remote access, open source, ASPs, digital cameras, and most of all: security.Trending Stories
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