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New Jersey federal district court judge Dennis Cavanaugh found that Glenmark destroyed more than a year's worth of potential evidence.
Gibson Dunn's Miguel Estrada had argued that limits set by the Supreme Court in the Skilling case on prosecutors' use of the honest services law tainted Black's entire conviction. But Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner disagreed.
Pfizer's Wyeth unit and its lawyers at Dechert have had a full week managing the company's long-running Prempro mass tort woes.
Judges Not Bound by Guidelines' Minimum, Maximum Sentences
In a splintered and complex decision that may throw federal criminal cases into short-term chaos, the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12 took the bite out of the federal sentencing guidelines and may have handed back to federal judges the discretion in sentencing they lost 20 years ago after the guidelines were enacted.Justices to Take Up Lawyer Ethics, Errors
How lawyers do their jobs -- from the type of advice they give clients to the calculation of fees -- moves to the fore in the new U.S. Supreme Court term in six cases that could dramatically alter the day-to-day practice of law. The justices in recent terms typically have taken two or three cases, or even none, involving lawyering. The upswing may reflect a larger movement toward greater scrutiny of the legal profession, particularly in the wake of corporate and government scandals involving lawyers.United Technologies Corporation's Pratt & Whitney unit was on the hook for as much as $11 billion in a patent infringement suit. But two weeks ago UTC's lawyers at Bartlit Beck knocked out Rolls Royce's damages report, and on Friday they knocked out the case.
Pfizer had lined up Kathleen Sullivan and the plaintiffs had hired Arthur Miller. But the two won't be sparring before the U.S. Supreme Court over claims that Pfizer did not obtain adequate consent and caused deaths and injuries during a meningitis drug trial on Nigerian children.
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