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That May Be A $500 Bow Tie I'm Wearing

Kendall Gray

September 02, 2010 18:16

I will admit it.  My sense of style is not for everyone.  Atypical.  Iconoclastic. Nerdy. Or just bad.  I would accept any of those words as accurate descriptors. But as I sit here in my Brooks Brothers seersucker suit and my Brooks Brothers regimental stripe bow tie, I am...

Mobile Content Providers Settle Unauthorized Billing Class Action

September 02, 2010 17:00

While the FCC has taken an interest in mobile marketing by carriers -- most notably with investigations of carrier early termination fees and proceedings examining wireless consumer "bill shock" -- it also is helpful to remember that the mobile content providers are subject to...

California Legislature Fails to Pass 33% Renewable Portfolio Standard

September 02, 2010 16:24

An alert written by Stoel Rives partner Seth Hilton: Last night, the California legislature failed to pass Senate Bill 722—the 33% Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) legislation—by the close of the legislative session. The bill would have increased California’s RPS to 33% for ...

FDCPA Fee-Shifting Applies To Appellate Proceedings, Tenth Circuit Holds

September 02, 2010 16:07

 In Anchondo v. Anderson, Crenshaw & Associates, L.L.C, --- F.3d ---, 2010 WL 3261155 (10th Cir. Aug. 16, 2010), the Tenth Circuit held that, like that of the Truth in Lending Act (TLA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act’s (FDCPA) fee-shifting provision encompasses...

Grandma Robbed by Nazis - Grandson Sues Spain to Recover Stolen Paintings

September 02, 2010 12:24

In August, 2009, the Ninth Circuit decided en banc by 9-2 that a California resident Claude Cassirer can sue Spain to recover his grandmother's oil painting "Rue Saint-Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie," painted by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro and taken by the Nazi...

Class Certification Denied in Microwave Popcorn Litigation

September 02, 2010 11:55

A federal court has denied class certification in a proposed consumer fraud class action arising from the sale of microwave popcorn with artificial butter flavoring. See Courtney Fine v. Conagra Foods, Inc., No. CV 10-01848 SJO (C.D. Calif., Aug. 27, 2010). The facts: Diacetyl is a naturally...

Whch Mass Tort Cases Deserve Settlement?

September 02, 2010 10:00

Fordham Law professor Howard Erichson (http://law.fordham.edu/faculty/1095.htm) has posted a new working paper that addresses the thorny issue of settlements in mass tort cases.  Titled Uncertainty and the Advantage of Collective Settlement, (forthcoming, DePaul Law Review) it posits six...

ALJ Rogers Issues Final ID Finding No Infringement In Bulk Welding Wire Investigation

September 02, 2010 01:48

On August 31, 2010, ALJ Rogers issued a lengthy Final Initial Determination in Inv. No. 337-TA-686, Certain Bulk Welding Wire Containers and Components Thereof and Welding Wire, finding that...

En Banc Federal Circuit Affirms ITC Decision on Patent Misuse

September 02, 2010 01:43

On August 30, 2010, the en banc Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of the ITC in Inv. No. 337-TA-474 (Princo Corp, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al., Fed. Cir. 2007-1386). The...

New York Enacts Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights

September 01, 2010 22:53

On August 31, 2010, just in time for Labor Day, New York Governor David Paterson signed into law the “Domestic Workers Bill of Rights” (“Bill of Rights”), which grants certain employment protections to household domestic workers such as nannies, caregivers and housekeepers....