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In Weird En Banc Ruling, Fifth Circuit Punts on Climate Change Class Action, Leaving Mess for Supreme Court
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
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After a three-judge appellate panel reinstated a property owner's class action alleging that oil and chemical companies contributed to Hurricane Katrina's ferocity, the Fifth Circuit granted the defendants' motion to rehear the case en banc. Then, because it couldn't muster enough judges to hear it, the appellate court dismissed the appeal.

June 07, 1999 |

After The Hype, Tort Reform Moves Slowly

When House Majority Leader Rep. Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) spoke on the Y2K liability bill in May, just before the House passed it 236-190, he depicted the plaintiffs' lawyers opposing the measure as "a bunch of buzzards and vultures [waiting] to feed off the carcasses." One or another tort reform proposal has been a nearly constant element on the congressional agenda. But measured by their own aspirations, Republicans have managed to enact little legislation on the matter.
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February 01, 2007 |

PRO BONO SCORECARD 2007: Scoring the Firms

26 minute read
December 06, 2004 |

Billing Rates for Junior and Senior Associates

This chart presents a sampling of hourly rates charged by law firms that establish billing rates based on associate class.
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November 19, 2007 |

National Rankings

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June 01, 1999 |

Foreign Plaintiffs Can Bring Benlate Lawsuits in Delaware

The Delaware Supreme Court has opened the door to Benlate lawsuits against DuPont, producer of the controversial fungicide that is alleged in numerous lawsuits to cause birth defects. The court reversed a lower court's finding that a lawsuit brought on behalf of six children born in England, Scotland, Wales and New Zealand should be heard in those countries. The children suffer from severe eye defects allegedly caused by their mothers' exposure to Benlate.
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January 13, 2004 |

Docket Watch

Docket Watch presents are cases coming before the Supreme Court this week and next and the lawyers who will argue them.
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January 12, 2004 |

January 2004 Docket Watch

During the next two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court reviews whether the Telecommunications Act of 1996 pre-empts a Missouri law barring municipalities from providing telecommunications service to the public. The Court will also consider whether judges are required by the Sixth Amendment to give extra admonitions to pro se defendants who are pleading guilty, such as the value of an attorney's independent opinion on the risks of forfeiting a defense.
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May 04, 2000 |

Making Gains, But Still Far to Go

As recently as the 1970s, African-American lawyers were routinely mistaken for messengers by co-workers. Into the 1980s, women lawyers were asked to fetch coffee for male counterparts. The dozen or so minority and woman lawyers who were among the first to reach partnership status in Washington, D.C law firms all have stories like these to tell. Today, minorities account for 3.3 percent of partners in major firms in the District and women make up just over 15 percent of the city's partners.
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May 06, 2002 |

Black Farmer Class Action in Turmoil

More than one year after dozens of pro bono lawyers swooped in to bail out plaintiff`s counsel in a huge class action involving black farmers, the plaintiffs are still trying to undo mistakes by the case`s originial attorneys.
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