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February 21, 2007 |

9th Circuit Tackles Natural Gas Price-Fixing

With billions of dollars riding on the outcome, the 9th Circuit is expected to define the scope of federal regulatory power and the ability of private litigants to recover antitrust damages in the deregulated world of natural gas selling. The legal battle stems from three related cases of alleged price-fixing and market manipulation by natural gas suppliers during the 2001 California energy crisis. The outcome will influence how regulatory agencies respond to alleged market manipulation.
3 minute read
February 26, 2004 |

Georgia County's Maps Designed to Discriminate, Suit Alleges

A former DeKalb County, Ga., commissioner is alleging in a federal suit that African-American county officials drew district maps designed to boot her from the commission and gain a black majority. The suit goes forward as the state Legislature scrambles to draw new maps after a federal judge in an unrelated case ruled that the districts approved by the General Assembly's Democratic majority in 2002 violated the principle of one man, one vote.
5 minute read
September 06, 2005 |

11th Circuit: Jail Was Right to Conduct Strip Search

The 11th Circuit has reluctantly ruled that a Georgia county's policy of strip-searching every prisoner booked into jail violated the Constitution. The court noted that the policy didn't violate individual prisoners' rights as long as jailers had "reasonable suspicion" they might possess weapons or contraband. The 11th Circuit made the ruling in the case of a woman who sued a sheriff and jail supervisor after she was strip-searched following her misdemeanor arrest for a domestic-violence dispute.
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November 29, 2005 |

Court Rejects Ford Appeal -- After Paralyzed Girl Settles

Family members of a Georgia girl who was paralyzed in a car accident and then won a $47.7 million verdict against Ford Motor Co. faced a choice -- they could wait for the state Supreme Court to decide whether to take up Ford's appeal or settle the case for presumably less than the jury award. The family settled for what both sides said is a confidential sum. But because the justices did not find out in time that the case had been resolved, they recently denied Ford's petition for certiorari.
5 minute read
February 21, 2007 |

9th Circuit Tackles Natural Gas Price-Fixing

With billions of dollars riding on the outcome, the 9th Circuit is expected to define the scope of federal regulatory power and the ability of private litigants to recover antitrust damages in the deregulated world of natural gas selling. The legal battle stems from three related cases of alleged price-fixing and market manipulation by natural gas suppliers during the 2001 California energy crisis. The outcome will influence how regulatory agencies respond to alleged market manipulation.
3 minute read
December 29, 2003 |

Old Faces Fade, New Ones Battle

21 minute read
November 29, 2006 |

Judge Clears Way for Discrimination Suit by White Employees of Ga. County

A federal judge has called evidence that DeKalb County, Ga., officials discriminated against white county employees "unusually compelling" and is allowing the case to proceed to trial. Despite the decision, the DeKalb County attorney said the county had won a "resounding victory" because the judge had dismissed 50 of the 80 claims against the defendants. One official is accused of asking a black co-worker to "dig up dirt" on white employees; the co-worker later lost his job, and is a plaintiff.
5 minute read
November 02, 2001 |

Physician Assistants Take Aim at Blue Cross

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 25 cleared the way for two Alabama physician assistants to pursue a class action against the state's Blue Cross health insurance program. The plaintiffs in Hobbsv. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama charge that the insurer refuses to pay assistants for rendering the same types of medical services as doctors who are paid under the program.
3 minute read
January 07, 2003 |

U.S. Seeks Share of Breast Implant Payout

Nine years and at least $1 billion ago, class action plaintiffs settled their claims with makers of silicone breast implants. But ever since the settlement, the U.S. government has argued that taxpayers should be reimbursed for Medicare payments made on behalf of women who claimed implants made them ill. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on the matter.
4 minute read
December 28, 2012 |

The Score: The NFL Agents of The Am Law 200

With the National Football League playoffs less than two weeks away, The Am Law Daily takes a look at the player agents who hail from Am Law 200 firms. Elsewhere in our latest look at sports and the law: an ex-Miller Canfield partner sues the firm over his request for a leave of absence to coach football; a Cooley partner defends his client Roger Clemens; and a Wilmer alum is hired to help turn around the NFL's Cleveland Browns.
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