Friday, September 27, 2013

Treasure Hunters Fined $1M for Bad Faith Litigation

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• Treasure Hunters Fined $1M for Bad Faith Litigation

• Martha Stewart Fires Pre-Emptive Shot Against Alleged Troll

• $10 Million Gift Means Full Scholarships at Chicago Law

• Coast Guard Immune in Boarding Ecuadoran Fishing Boat

• Law Schools Get Down to Business

• Injustice for All from False Confessions

• Walking a Tightrope in White-Collar Investigations

• The Supreme Court's Reliance on Amicus Curiae in the 2012-13 Term

• My Asian Eyes

• Senate Considers Changes to Surveillance Law

Treasure Hunters Fined $1M for Bad Faith Litigation

In a blistering decision, a federal judge in Florida ordered a treasure hunting company to pay more than $1 million in attorney fees and sanctions for a "continuous, core campaign of bad faith, deception, and deflection." Read More »

Martha Stewart Fires Pre-Emptive Shot Against Alleged Troll

Martha Stewart's company has come out with guns blazing against an alleged patent troll, asking the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin to declare that its iPad apps do not infringe on patents asserted by Lodsys Group LLC of Marshall, Texas. Read More »

$10 Million Gift Means Full Scholarships at Chicago Law

Financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein has given $10 million to his alma mater to support as many as 60 full-ride scholarships during the next three years. Read More »

Coast Guard Immune in Boarding Ecuadoran Fishing Boat

A federal appeals court has blocked a group of Ecuadorian fishermen from pursuing most of their $5 million claim against the U.S. Coast Guard for unlawfully boarding their vessel, imprisoning some of them and destroying cargo and fish while searching for drugs in international waters near the Galapagos Islands in 2005. Read More »

Law Schools Get Down to Business

Finance and accounting, management, leadership and entrepreneurship — all components of a business education, not a legal one, right? Not anymore. A growing number of law schools are borrowing a page from the MBA playbook and adding courses intended to give students a foundation in business, in addition to the law. Read More »

Injustice for All from False Confessions

As we continue to hear about more wrongful convictions rooted in false confessions, we should push for two important reforms: broadening the cases in which police electronically record interrogations, and developing a more rigorous and independent process for state executive branches to consider and resolve false-confession claims. Read More »

Walking a Tightrope in White-Collar Investigations

One way to pursue the best possible resolution is to cooperate with a government investigation. But what does cooperation actually entail and does it mean capitulating to the government's allegations or suspicions? Read More »

The Supreme Court's Reliance on Amicus Curiae in the 2012-13 Term

In this, our third year analyzing the high court’s amicus docket for The National Law Journal, we wondered whether this steady increase in volume has influenced the Court’s receptiveness to amicus briefs. And for amici curiae, we questioned whether it is getting harder to stand out in the crowd. Read More »

My Asian Eyes

TV anchorperson Julie Chen had cosmetic surgery to make herself more appealing (less Asian) to viewers. Would you go that far for your career? Read More »

Senate Considers Changes to Surveillance Law

By Alex Zank As Senate Intelligence Committee members and top security officials defended controversial telephone data collection programs Thursday on Capitol Hill, they also said they're working on legislation to amend the scope of the surveillance. Committee Chairwoman Senator Dianne... Read More »



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