News
February 22, 2012
Corporate Counsel |
February 22, 2012
Whistle-blower Stephanie Schweizer wasn't interested in settling her government-contracting fraud suit for $1.2 million, an amount far from the $165 million in claims she lodged against the international copy and printing equipment company where she had worked.
Wall Street Journal Law Blog |
February 22, 2012
Judge Judy may look like a judge, but she’s really an arbitrator. Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. and his colleagues on the Delaware Court of Chancery may act like arbitrators sometimes, but they’re judges, through and through.
Tags: Arbitration - ADR, Delaware
UPI |
February 22, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court spanked West Virginia's highest court Tuesday, saying arbitration law applies even when suing nursing homes for alleged wrongful death.
Tags: Arbitration - ADR, Judiciary, West Virginia
February 21, 2012
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
February 21, 2012
Two Democratic senators looking to amend the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act urged U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to clarify what the Department of Justice considers a bribe of a foreign official. They said the lack of transparency has made it expensive for companies to comply with the law.
Washington Post |
February 21, 2012
BP PLC, operator of the Macondo well that caused the United States’ worst oil spill, may reach a settlement for the disaster this week after a partner agreed on fines, an Oppenheimer & Co. analyst said.
Tags: Environmental Litigation
National Law Journal |
February 21, 2012
Everything about the impending trial over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is big — the potential damages, the range of legal issues, the thousands of exhibits, the cast of lawyers. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans has made it clear that he intends to prevent the case from getting too big.
The Economist |
February 21, 2012
SECTIONS 404 and 406 of the Dodd-Frank law of July 2010 add up to just a couple of pages. On October 31st last year two of the agencies overseeing America’s financial system turned those few pages into a form to be filled out by hedge funds and some other firms; that form ran to 192 pages.
Wall Street Journal |
February 21, 2012
A federal lawsuit getting attention in Delaware involves people unaccustomed to being named as defendants: judges.
Tags: Arbitration - ADR, Class Action, Delaware
National Law Journal |
February 21, 2012
State courts across the United States are bracing for another year of austerity as a new budget cycle threatens once again to limit funding for the courts.
Tags: Judiciary
Wall Street Journal |
February 21, 2012
The $25 billion mortgage settlement negotiated on Feb. 9 by the administration and 49 state attorneys general with five big banks has been greeted with considerable political suspicion. Conservatives see a shakedown and liberals dismiss it as too little. The biggest loser is the rule of law.
