The National Law Journal 1995 Claudia MacLachlan |
Title | Subject | Authors |
5th Circuit next for tobacco suit. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
ABA to weigh Congress' income tax alternatives; leading politicians say they have devised the fairest way to tax consumption and encourage Americans to save. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
ADEA back pay, punies are held taxable by court: lawyers for both employers and employees say the ruling will make settling bias cases more difficult and costly. (Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Commissioner v. Schleier) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
A slow move into brave new world: Sen. Pressler's second telecommunications bill rises from ashes of first. (Larry Pressler) (includes related articles on Judge Harold H. Greene and communications lawyer Richard E. Wiley) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Bombing prosecutors invoke seldom-used statute: but are they abusing the procedural safeguards? (Oklahoma City bombing) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Cable operators dismayed by 'must carry' ruling. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
'Castano' to 5th Circuit: a gamble? Judge in tobacco class case allows interlocutory appeal. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Cigarette makers claim gain in court; state judge says A.G. can't bring common law claims. (attorney general) (West Virginia) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Congress returns to legal, regulatory reform. | Law | Marcia Coyle, Karen Donovan, Harvey Berkman, Claudia MacLachlan, Marianne Lavelle |
Court sides with lawyer on expenses; Ninth Circuit says deductions are permissible in some contingency-fee cases. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Did Business Week fold too easily? Its strategy to publish sealed documents proves unsettling to some media lawyers. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
FBI mole's digging pushes privilege issues to surface; will Archer-Daniels-Midland be successful at invoking attorney-client privilege to protect internal documents? (Mark E. Whitacre) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
FDA draws first in tobacco wars; agency uses obscure section of 1976 law to declare cigarettes are 'medical devices.' (Food and Drug Administration) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
GOP bill would strew litigators; Justice Dept. says House idea could hamper cases. (proposal to shift litigators from Justice Dept. to U.S. Attorneys' offices) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Government wastes no time on Microsoft appeal. (antitrust case) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Heirs hope for a more sympathetic forum; they place their bets on new lawyers, court to stop widow's allegedly spendthrift ways. (heirs of W. Averell Harriman) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
'Help wanted' for Mass. tobacco suit; state invites private lawyers to help it recoup health costs due to smoking. (Massachusetts) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Legal Services come under attack - again. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Microsoft investigators press ahead: the Justice Department's antitrust probe will continue after release of Windows 95. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Microsoft stalled by Tunney Act; but experts say the law ties Judge Sporkin's hands. (antitrust settlement between government and Microsoft Corp., Stanley Sporkin) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
New proposal would break LSC into block grants; a Republican breaks ranks with party over measure, saying states wouldn't pick up the slack. (Legal Services Corp.) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Novel twist in Intuit lawsuit; claim cites Microsoft's harm to 'future market.' | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Probing the backlog: the NLJ finds that most intractable cases involve business disputes. (National Law Journal analysis of federal district court backlog) | Law | Marcia Coyle, Claudia MacLachlan |
Recent tobacco rulings give both sides the jitters: the anti-tobacco effort has suffered setbacks in West Virginia and Florida, but has advanced in Minnesota. | Law | Claudia Maclachlan |
'Slam dunk' seen for Microsoft in its antitrust pact appeal; lawyers watching D.C. Circuit arguments put their money on software giant. | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
The justices close ranks on 'knock and announce.' | Law | Marcia Coyle, Claudia MacLachlan |
Tobacco firm sues on data: company accuses lawyers of stealing documents. (Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp.) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Tobacco papers rolled up: university cuts off access to documents after Brown & Williamson protests. (University of California at San Francisco) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Tobacco 'secret' in S.F. library: Brown & Williamson has sued to protect files that are publicly available in a medical school collection. (University of California at San Francisco Medical Center) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
Toward term's end, court rules on Aguilar, taxes. (U.S. Supreme Court) | Law | Marcia Coyle, Harvey Berkman, Claudia MacLachlan |
TV deregulation is driving the deals; media moguls buy networks to control new shows, reruns. (includes related article on lawyer Samuel C. Butler, involved in both ABC & CBS deals) | Law | Claudia MacLachlan |
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