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Pleading Standards and Bernie Madoff
The SEC's civil action against defendants allegedly involved in the Madoff ponzi scheme ran up against federal pleading standards in a recent decision from the Southern District of New York. The case is SEC v. Cohmad Securities Corp., No. 09-CV-5680,...
Claim Against Donald Rumsfeld Survives Motion to Dismiss (and Iqbal)
Last week Judge Wayne Andersen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's motion to dismiss a lawsuit that was filed against him by two contractors who allege they were...
Further Commentary on Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick
Readers who are following yesterday's SCOTUS decision in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick may be interested in today's commentary by Professor Howard Wasserman (Florida International) over at PrawfsBlawg: Copyright and the (hopefully) end of drive-by jurisdictional rulings. See also additional coverage...
Commentary on Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick: A Win for Jurisdictional Clarity
Below, Professor Scott Dodson (William & Mary) comments on today's SCOTUS decision in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick: Today, the Supreme Court decided Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick and held that ยง 411(a) of the Copyright Act is not jurisdictional. At issue...
SCOTUS Cert Grant of Interest: Harrington v. Richter
This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Harrington v. Richter, No. 09-587, a habeas case out of the Ninth Circuit. Here are links to the opinion below, the docket, and SCOTUSblog's wiki on the case. From a federal-courts standpoint,...
