litigation

Bankruptcy Highlights Necessity of Preventing Data Breaches

Daniel Schwartz
March 22, 2012 13:18

With all the focus lately on social media, it’s easy for forget that there are other laws and issues that remain vitally important to employers. One of them is the need for employees to understand the importance of compliance with data privacy laws.  I talked in 2008 about a new law in...

7 of the strangest lawsuits making headlines

March 22, 2012 12:45

The following lawsuits exemplify the lighter, and sometimes bizarre, side of the legal world.InhouseBlog.comMore of the strangest lawsuits showing the lighter, and sometimes bizarre, side of the legal world. [via: 7 of the strangest lawsuits making headlines at InsideCounsel] Like this post?...

Defective PA Act 91 Notice May Subject Pending Foreclosures to Litigation

March 22, 2012 09:30

By Patrick Thomas Woodman, Esq. On January 30, 2012, the Pennsylvania Superior Court issued an opinion in the Vukmam case (259 WDA 2011 Superior Court of Pennsylvania) affirming a trial court Order that vacated a Sheriff Sale based on what the court found was a defective Act 91 Notice to the...

Another Copyright Infringement Case Over Unauthorized Database Distribution of Court Filings

Michel-Adrien Sheppard
March 21, 2012 23:08

This is a follow up to the Library Boy post of February 27, 2012 entitled Thomson Reuters Sued Over Use of Facta in Litigator. That post described a class action lawsuit that was recently certified by an Ontario Superior Court of Justice judge and that alleges that the database company Thomson...

UCL Class Actions in California Expand Beyond "All Natural" Claims

March 21, 2012 22:17

The “All Natural” class action litigation in California has continued into 2012, as expected.  The claims in California are being filed under California’s consumer-friendly unfair competition law (or UCL), which is codified in sections 17200 and 17500 of the California...