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A federal law on cigarette advertising preempts a New York City regulation requiring merchants to display in their stores gruesome pictures of lung disease, brain damage and decaying teeth, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Next Up, a Really Weighty Legal Issue
The latest Hollywood legal squabble involves what arguably shapes up to be one of the more egregious sins in Tinseltown: Suggesting that a celebrity could stand to lose a few pounds. Last month, Paula Abdul filed a $1 million complaint in L.A. Superior Court. The suit targets the "Hollywood 48-Hour Miracle Diet" and a panoply of its manufacturers and marketers. Abdul's lawyers say that the diet ads that mentioned her were defamatory, invasive and "calculatedly false."Why would Teva agree to shell out a quarter-of-a-billion dollars to end most of the propofol litigation just when its lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis and Goodwin Procter seemed on the verge of wiping out a $500 million jury award against the company? We've got some clues.
Lawyer Chided for Dragging Out Deal in Blue Cross Suit
A federal judge on Wednesday accused a class action lawyer of trying to delay a settlement that helped nearly 600 eating disorder patients so he could pursue a fight with a co-counsel over shares of a $2.45 million fee award. U.S. District Judge Faith Hochberg told New Jersey lawyer David Mazie that he put his own interests above "those of people who are dying" when he sought to make the division of fees an issue just before the preliminary settlement of a case against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield.After a little-known Pittsburgh firm lost the en banc Federal Circuit appeal that significantly tightened standards of business methods patents, the IP powerhouse took over the appeal--and, despite resistance from the U.S. solicitor general and a big swath of the patent bar, won a grant of certiorari.
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