Friday, April 18, 2014

Judge Names Committee to Audit BP Oil-Spill Claims

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• Judge Names Committee to Audit BP Oil-Spill Claims

• Scalia, Ginsburg Offer Amendments to the Constitution

• Colorado Law to Inherit $10 Million from Alumnus

• Class Action Against Homeopathic Remedy Company To Go Forward

• MDL Judge Dismisses Stroke Patient's Birth Control Failure-to-Warn Claim

• Litigant's Unmasking Is Ordered

• Plaintiffs Sue GM Over Loss of Eye, Loss of Teeth in Ignition Switch Suit

• Dewey: Don't Let it Happen to Your Law Firm

• UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE LLC

• DIGITALGLOBE INC.

Judge Names Committee to Audit BP Oil-Spill Claims

A federal judge overseeing the $9.2 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement has approved creation of a committee headed by a local law professor to audit oil-spill claims. Read More »

Scalia, Ginsburg Offer Amendments to the Constitution

Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg discuss their proposed amendments to the Constitution, their writing styles and government surveillance. Read More »

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Colorado Law to Inherit $10 Million from Alumnus

Alumnus Byron Chrisman and his wife, Carlene, have pledged $10 million to the University of Colorado Law School as part of their estate. When realized upon their deaths, the donation will be the largest ever made to the Boulder law school. Read More »

Class Action Against Homeopathic Remedy Company To Go Forward

A class action which contends that children’s cold and flu products sold by a 100-year-old California homeopathic remedy company are nothing more than “flavored water” has been certified by a California federal judge. Read More »

MDL Judge Dismisses Stroke Patient's Birth Control Failure-to-Warn Claim

A plaintiff who was a teenager at the time she was prescribed a birth control patch can't sue over allegedly inadequate warnings against the stroke she later suffered, a federal judge has ruled. Read More »

Plaintiffs Sue GM Over Loss of Eye, Loss of Teeth in Ignition Switch Suit

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against General Motors, LLC allege that a locked ignition switch in a Chevy Cobalt led to a car accident that cost one plaintiff his eye and the other to lose her teeth and require several facial reconstruction surgeries. Read More »

Dewey: Don't Let it Happen to Your Law Firm

Dewey & LeBoeuf's collapse offers a grim example to other major law firms about failed oversight. Read More »

UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE LLC

Working at United Launch Alliance LLC, is, in fact, ­rocket science, but its general counsel says that creating a first-class legal department isn't. Kevin MacCary believes it's more about developing talent and fostering inclusion and volunteerism than numbers and statistics. Read More »

DIGITALGLOBE INC.

When DigitalGlobe Inc. launched a merger with its rival in the U.S. satellite imaging market, the in-house legal team had to navigate challenges from a constellation of federal government interests. Read More »



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