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Susan Beck's Summary Judgment: Why the Wal-Mart Litigation Makes Our Legal System Look Bad
Publication Date: 2012-10-17 Practice Area: Industry: Court: Judge: Attorneys: For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number:
Women who worked for Wal-Mart waited 11 years for their discrimination case to wind its way through our legal system, winning rulings on class certification the entire way until the Supreme Court reversed. Now, the plaintiffs in Texas are told that they waited too long to bring a smaller class action. Gotcha!
Forecasting the Future of FCPA Enforcement
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales examines the current climate of FCPA enforcement and looks to the future of the government's strategy for building and winning cases under the law.
Under Watchful Eye, Circuit Fares Better
Ninth Circuit Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain showed he knows how to read the high court in a term that saw fewer smackdowns.Audio helped sway judge to give Jackson doc jail
LOS ANGELES AP - The voice of Michael Jackson helped put the man who killed him behind bars.It wasn't the familiar voice of hits such as "Billie Jean" and "Thriller," but the slow, slurring recording of the singer that was found on his physician's cell phone that helped convince a judge to sentence the doctor to jail for four years.Pro Bono Is Not the Answer to The Access-to-Justice Crisis
More pro bono won't make legal services more accessible. The problem is legal costs, which are kept high by restrictions such as the ban on nonlawyer ownership of legal businesses.NLRB Memos Offer Cautionary Guidance on Social Media
David Schwartz, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, writes: Social media use in the workplace catapulted onto the labor law scene in October 2010, when the NLRB filed a complaint against a non-union employer for discharging an employee who posted negative comments about her supervisor on Facebook. Though the case ultimately settled, it revealed the Board's expansive interpretation of employee social media rights and foreshadowed subsequent efforts to regulate social media activity in the workplace.
Will FCPA Investigations Lead to Tax Charges?
In his Tax Litigation Issues column, Jeremy H. Temkin, a principal in Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, writes that a recent widely-read article in the New York Times on allegations that Wal-Mart violated the FCPA raises the specter that the company could be subject to inquiries by the IRS. Whether such a risk materializes for Wal-Mart or any company making corrupt payments to foreign officials depends in large part on the deductibility of the payments in question.
Vic Reynolds will be hands on as Cobb DA
Cobb County's new district attorney, Vic Reynolds (above), is an affable but disciplined teetotaler who likes sweet tea, popcorn and Labrador retrievers, and plans to personally prosecute some violent defendants and turn up the heat on all white collar criminals, particularly those who prey on the elderly.TRENDING STORIES
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