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June 21, 2007 |

Citing Supreme Court Precedent, 11th Circuit Reverses Major Copyright Ruling

An 11th Circuit panel has reversed the circuit's 6-year-old opinion in a major copyright case, declaring the ruling's mandate on behalf of freelance photographers to be "moot." The ruling, called "curious" by an intellectual property expert, interpreted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded freelance writers' copyrights in a way that limited the copyright claims of freelance photographers. The panel sidestepped a precedent which binds it to the earlier circuit decision.
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January 30, 2012 |

Costly moments in electronic discovery

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A Conversation With Class Action Objector Ted Frank
Publication Date: 2011-03-04
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Ted Frank's purchase of a Grand Theft Auto video game eventually led him to quit his fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute and devote himself to objecting to class actions settlements that he believes are orchestrated mainly to enrich plaintiffs lawyers.

November 09, 2007 |

Merck To Settle Vioxx Litigation For $4.85 Billion

After three years of sticking to a hard-line policy of trying every one of the approximate 26,600 suits lodged over its painkiller Vioxx, Merck & Co. announced Friday that it had come to an agreement that could settle 95 percent of the cases.
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June 07, 2004 |

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Service manager fired for filing workers' comp claim. Breast reduction surgery led to infection and asymmetry. Negligent positioning of arms during surgery caused RSD. Unlicensed truck driver ran over 91-year-old woman. Evasive action when truck's brakes failed caused rollover. Defendant trucker claimed driver made unsafe U-turn into his lane. Chunk of concrete crashed through windshield, but its origin was disputed.
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February 10, 2012 |

5 Costly Moments in Electronic Discovery

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March 21, 2005 |

Pretrial Process for Vioxx Litigation Begins

Dozens of lawyers filed into a federal courtroom Friday for a first pretrial hearing in the federal Vioxx liability case, the start of a legal process expected to be complex, years-long and costly for the painkiller's maker, Merck & Co. After the pretrial activities, the federal cases will be returned to their original jurisdictions for trial. Drug industry analysts have differing estimates of Merck's potential total liability in the Vioxx cases: from $4 billion to $30 billion.
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July 01, 2005 |

Motivated by Race Court to Reconsider

Eliott C. McLaughlinSpecial to the Daily ReportA recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has forced Atlanta's federal appeals court to revisit a 17-year-old murder conviction and death sentence-and what one judge called "a shameful history" of an Ocmulgee Circuit prosecutor who excluded black citizens from jury pools.
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December 11, 2006 |

Response to Counterclaim

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October 30, 2007 |

Focus on copyright

The New York Times Co., Time Inc. and Newsweek Inc., among a dozen of the nation's largest publishers, have banded together with university presses, academic journals and national library associations to oppose a Florida freelance photographer whose 10-year battle to collect royalties from National Geographic could redefine the limits of copyright protection.
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