The Legal Pulse

Bradford E. Biegon, Hollingsworth LLP

• E-Discovery Pitfall: Court Sanctions Lawyers & Client for Lackluster Data Search

Steven G. Bradbury, Dechert LLP

• Supreme Observations: American Needle v. NFL

Konrad L. Cailteux, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

• Foreign Tort Suits Under 221 Year-Old Law Ruled Out Against Corporations

Jonathan R. Cone, Crowell & Moring

• Certification Certitude: The Federal Circuit Rejects Broad False Claims Act Liability Theory

Robert T. Cruzen, Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

• Media Queue v. Netflix: Fees and Burdens in Patent Litigation
• Smartphone Patent War Outcome at International Trade Commission: Impact and Implications

Kelly Savage Day, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP

• Supreme Court Observations: PLIVA v. Mensing
• Preemption of State-Law Tort Claims: Change of Heart in Federal Agencies?

Nirav N. Desai, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

• Supreme Court Observations: Microsoft v. i4i

J. Brady Dugan, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

• What Does High Court’s Skilling Ruling Mean for Criminalizing Economic Conduct?

Donald Falk, Mayer Brown LLP 

• Supreme Court Observations: Rent-a-Center v. Jackson, Impact on Arbitration

Murray Feldman, Holland & Hart LLP

• Preliminary Injunctions in the Ninth Circuit: “Serious Questions” After High Court’s Winter Decision

Anthony J. Franze, Arnold & Porter LLP

• Lessons from the Rubashkin Amicus Debacle: The Government’s About-Face Calls for a DOJ Policy on Friend-of-the-Court Briefs

Arnold I. Friede,  Arnold I. Friede & Associates

• FDA Speech Regulators’ Counterproductive Crackdown on Disease Awareness Communications

Bryce L. Friedman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

• Alcohol Ad Ban Upheld Based on “Common Sense” View of 1st Amendment Rights

Eric J. Fues, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

• Prior Invention – “That which infringes, if later, would anticipate, if earlier – Prevails in Patent Suit

Gregory G. Garre, Latham & Watkins LLP

• Five Questions on the “Tenth Justice”

Peter Glaser, Troutman Sanders LLP

• Supreme Court Observations: AEP v. Connecticut 

Thomas C. Goldstein, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

• Five Questions on the U.S. Supreme Court Term

 Jeremy T. Grabill, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

• Foreign Tort Suits Under 221 Year-Old Law Ruled Out Against Corporations

Eric Grannon, White & Case LLP

• Is an Antitrust Violation a “Crime Involving Moral Turpitude”? DOJ Thinks So

Kevin T. Haroff, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

• Supreme Court Observations: Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms

 Douglas A. Henderson, Troutman Sanders LLP

• Supreme Court Observations: AEP v. Connecticut 

Jeff Ifrah, Ifrah Law Firm, PLLC

• Five Questions for . . . Jeff Ifrah on White Collar Crime Developments

R. Stanton Jones, Arnold & Porter

• Lessons from the Rubashkin Amicus Debacle: The Government’s About-Face Calls for a DOJ Policy on Friend-of-the-Court Briefs

Michael L. Junk, Hollingsworth LLP

• Court Excludes Expert Who Contradicted His Own Testimony in Mass Tort Drug Case

Michael L. Kiklis, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

• Supreme Court Observations: Bilski v. Kappos

Alexander W. Koff, Whitford Taylor Preston LLP

• Five Questions on Intellectual Property Rights and China
• Intellectual Property Rights Protection in China: Is it Time to Believe?

Elaine Kolish, Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative

• Five Questions on Self Regulation of Advertising

Joseph J. Lewczak , Davis & Gilbert LLP

• FDA Moving Towards Mandating Food Label Changes?
• Does FTC’s Pursuit of More Food, Drink Marketing Info Signal Commerial Speech Command and Control?

Charles R. Macedo, Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

• Nine Opportunities for Federal Circuit Guidance on Patents Post-Bilski

Jonathan L. Marcus, Covington & Burling LLP

• A Favorite Prosecutorial Tool – “Honest Services Fraud” Law – Limited

Jordan Miller

• After High Court Ruling, NFL Still on Pins and Needles

Charles Moore, White & Case LLP

• Supreme Court Should Protect Contract Rights in AT&T Mobility Case

Glen D. Nager, Jones Day

• Five Questions on the U.S. Supreme Court Term

Brad R. Newberg, Reed Smith LLP

• The Supreme Court Left Most Copyright Litigants Wanting in 2010
• Video Game “Bot” Provides Platform for Latest Judicial Pronouncement on Copyright & Software

Neil F. O’Flaherty, Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Bode Matz PC

• FDA’s 510(k) Device Review Improvements: Right Steps But Many Open Questions

 Cynthia Hujar Orr, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

• New Report Finds Stunning Erosion of Criminal Intent Requirements in Federal Law

Professor Mark Osler, Baylor Law School

• High Court’s Dillon Ruling: Institutionalizing Injustice in Institutions of Complexity and Centralization

Brian H. Pandya, Wiley Rein LLP

• Last Gasp for False Patent Marking Cases?  The Public Patent Foundation Challenges the Constitutionality of the America Invents Act  

Archis Parasharami, Mayer Brown LLP

• Supreme Court Observations: Rent-a-Center v. Jackson, Impact on Arbitration

Nicholas I. Porritt, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

• Supreme Court Observations: Scalia Opinion Rejects “F-Cubed” Securities Suits in Morrison

Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky, Baker & Hostetler LLP

• Judges Rightly Leave War in Military’s Hands with Maqaleh v. Gates Ruling

 Robert T. Rhode, Crowell & Moring

• Certification Certitude: The Federal Circuit Rejects Broad False Claims Act Liability Theory

Gerardo Rodriguez-Albizu, Diaz Reus & Targ, LLP

• Proving Money Laundering Just Got Tougher

Ilya Shapiro, The Cato Institute

• States Shouldn’t Take Solace in Today’s High Court Takings Ruling
• ObamaCare Challenge Gains Steam

Claudius C. Sokenu, Arnold & Porter LLP

• Corruption Is Profitable for U.S. Government: FCPA Crackdown Continues

R. Ben Sperry

• State High Court Gets It Right on Punitive Damages
• For Video Gaming Likenesses, If You’re “In the Game,” Are Your Rights Being Violated?
• Case on ObamaCare will Go On: District Court Denies the Federal Government’s Motion to Dismiss in Virginia v. Sebelius

Robert Greene Sterne, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

• Supreme Court Observations: Microsoft v. i4i

The Honorable Dick Thornburgh, K&L Gates LLP

• Supreme Court Observations: PCAOB Case & Separation of Powers

Tiffany A. Towers, Davis & Gilbert LLP

• FDA Moving Towards Mandating Food Label Changes?

Andrew J. Trask, McGuire Woods LLP

• Court Rules that Subclasses in Class Actions Require Their Own Lawyers

John D. Vandenberg, Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

• Media Queue v. Netflix: Fees and Burdens in Patent Litigation
• Smartphone Patent War Outcome at International Trade Commission: Impact and Implications

Michael Volkov, Mayer Brown LLP

• DOJ’s Improved Coordination = More Antitrust + FCPA Investigations

Professor Steven J. Willis, University of Florida Levin College of Law

• Florida Challenge to “ObamaCare” Fleshes Out Tax vs. Penalty Constitutional Issue