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August 06, 2013 |

Obama Pitches Mortgage Reform - Again

President Barack Obama is proposing to overhaul the nation's mortgage finance system, including shutting down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — a plan with bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.
4 minute read
July 29, 1999 |

A Bitter Pill

In the big drug makers' struggle with generic producers, billions are at stake. To defend their turf and patents, companies employ numerous tactics, some of them questionable. Earlier in July, a group of drugstore chains filed a federal antitrust suit in Miami against Abbott Laboratories, Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Geneva Pharmaceuticals, alleging that Abbott signed "unlawful agreements" with Zenith and Geneva and paid them not to market a generic version of Abbott's high blood pressure drug.
5 minute read
February 19, 2004 |

Virginia Seeks Review of Ruling on Prayer

The Supreme Court may decide this week to consider whether the Virginia Military Institute's tradition of pre-dinner prayer violates the First Amendment. The Virginia ACLU has sued on behalf of two cadets, contending the courts shouldn't view the matter differently than prayer in elementary and secondary schools. This is the second time in a decade that a VMI tradition has come before the Court -- the last issue involved women's admittance to the state-run college.
6 minute read
July 19, 2012 |

JOBS Act Warning: Slow! Men at Work

In his Corporate Securities column, John C. Coffee Jr., the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, discusses the JOBS Act, a brief overview of which shows the Law of Unintended Consequences remains in full force and effect. Passed quickly, the JOBS Act does some things that the business community may not have wanted - if it had time to focus.
23 minute read
July 23, 2007 |

Can You Afford the Fight?

Too often patentees don't punish "smaller" acts of infringement. Million-dollar litigation makes no sense when the best-case scenario is $1 million in damages. But defending patents doesn't have to cost so much.
8 minute read
October 01, 2012 |

A Big Week for Freddie Mac

With litigation wins and a favorable inspector general report, it was a helluva week for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, its former executives, and their defense lawyers.
3 minute read
August 03, 2011 |

Time Warner posts higher 2Q net income

Media conglomerate Time Warner said Wednesday that its second-quarter profit grew 14 percent, thanks to higher revenue from its TV channel business, video games and movies such as "The Hangover Part II."
2 minute read
September 21, 2011 |

Delaware judges take aim at attorney fees

8 minute read
January 31, 2008 |

Longtime IRS Lawyer Joins Nixon Peabody

Susan P. Reaman, a 30-year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service, has joined Nixon Peabody's syndication practice as counsel in the Washington office. Reaman authored �1.42-2, which involves the waiver of the requirement that an existing building eligible for the low-income housing credit was last placed in service more than 10 years prior to acquisition by the taxpayer. A recipient of numerous awards during her tenure at the IRS, she has also testified before Congress on low-income housing tax credits.
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