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By Jonathan Ringel | May 8, 2018
"Fumbled Call" revisits a dramatic Atlanta trial involving big football and big lawyers.
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By Shepard Goldfein and Karen Hoffman Lent | May 7, 2018
Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists Shepard Goldfein and Karen Hoffman Lent discuss a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral argument. The court's decision will help clarify whether the Sherman Act can be used to police anticompetitive behaviors that were supposedly compelled by foreign law.
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By Gene Lee, Joseph Reid and Caroline A. Teichner | May 7, 2018
On April 16, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in 'WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical', a case raising important issues about the extraterritorial reach of U.S. patent law—namely, whether a patentee can recover lost profits stemming from the non-infringing use, outside the United States, of a system found to infringe domestically under §271(f) of the Patent Act.
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By Stephen A. Miller and Isaac A. Binkovitz | May 7, 2018
In the United States, antitrust law strives to eliminate price-fixing affecting the U.S. market. That price-fixing activity sometimes occurs outside the United States, and some defendants ensnared in antitrust inquiries have invoked a plausible defense that can be summarized as: A foreign government made me do it!
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By Marcia Coyle | May 7, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently threw her support behind the new law clerk hiring plan by saying she will "take into account" in her own hiring whether judges and law schools comply with the new process.
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By Marcia Coyle | May 7, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently threw her support behind a hiring plan developed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Law Clerk Hiring—a committee which includes Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Sidney Thomas.
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By Angela D. Giampolo | May 4, 2018
Much of our focus on LGBTQ rights centers at the federal level because those decisions impact the entire United States, but there are many ongoing battles in a multitude of states that concern LGBTQ equality.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 4, 2018
“There isn't a political fire on the left when it comes to judicial nominations," says Elliot Williams of the progressive lobbying shop The Raben Group. The firm registered to advocate for the Committee for a Fair Judiciary.
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By Michael Marciano | May 2, 2018
Alisa Tiwari, a participant in Yale's San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project, said she first became interested in taking court action after reading last December that the U.S. Department of Justice, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions' direction, had repealed guidance calling for more compassionate and less stringent treatment of poor, young and disabled Americans, as well as people of color.
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By Karen Sloan | May 2, 2018
This year's crop of speakers run the gamut from a Supreme Court justice and deputy attorney general to an ESPN basketball caller and a podcast host.
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