The National Law Journal 2003 - Abstracts

The National Law Journal 2003
TitleSubjectAuthors
$100 million award for pool accident; lawyer used mock trials, video in the case over the disabling of a 2-year-old.(Florida)(Brief Article)LawDee McAree
A danger of air travel: blood clots; suits grow over long-flight perils.LawTresa Baldas
America and England may become new meccas for suits; claimants worldwide see U.S. and England as ripe for legal actions.(Global Big Suits)LawBrennan J. Torregrossa, Steven Clark
A new life in Montana was a nice thought.(Stewart S. Hudnut, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, Illinois Tool Works Inc.)LawSusan Mandel
Antitrust enforcement.LawJanet L. McDavid, Robert F. Leibenluft
Archiving documents; court administrators need a standard that will last.(The Litigator's Toolbox)LawDavid Horrigan
A tightrope victory; nine more notable wins.(verdicts for the defense)LawJune D. Bell
Battling digital piracy; recording industry has taken a multipronged response to illegally downloaded music.(Intellectual Property)LawLawrence Iser, James Toma
Business regulation.(reasons fighting corporate corruption has become so extreme that it criminalizes otherwise normal economic activity)LawGeorge J. Terwilliger III
But is it art? One court in.(classification of items for sale in a museum gift shop as art)(Intellectual Property)LawHeather Angelina Dunn
Class action, part II.LawLinda S. Mullenix
Classwide arbitration.LawGeorgene M. Vairo
Contact sport.(Suzie Thomas, general counsel for the Houston Texans)LawBill Jeffreys
Cross-burder injunction against claimant denied; court takes 'globalist' approach to conflicting insolvency actions.(Bankruptcy)LawLuis Salazar
Digital headache; e-discovery costs soar into the millions, and litigants seek guidance.(NLJ Business)LawMark Ballard
DMCA resists challenges, despite recent acquittal.(Digital Millennium Copyright Act)(Intellectual Property)LawJoseph Chovanes
Expert spoliation.LawGregory P. Joseph
FCC to increase flow of wireless spectrum; new block is likely to cost less than old ones and attract new money to the mobile communications industry.(Telecommunications)LawGregory Staple
Feud engulfs S.F. defender's office; ten months from election to changeover.(San Francisco, California)LawSue Reisinger
First trial for Bayer's Baycol set to start; plaintiff in Texas case seeks $100M.LawAndrew Harris
Forum non conveniens.LawJohn I. Bkanck Jr.
Grounded by the IRS; the Ninth Circuit ruled that two IRS lawyers committed fraud in a tax case.(Dixon v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue)LawGary Young
Hotel industry faces need for restructuring; downturn in tourism may lead to workouts and Chapter 11 filings; early focused action is key.(Bankruptcy)LawFrancis L. Carter, Jeffrey T. Kucera, William J. Simonitsch
Justices torn on drug program; a case watched by many other states.(Supreme Court case regarding Maine's discount drug program)(Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America v. Concannon)LawTony Mauro
Language issues abound in litigation; translators and interpreters need to know colloquialisms and terms of art.(The Litigator's Toolbox)LawSteve Seidenberg
Liberal U.S. discovery rules extend their reach; foreign corporations may be subject to our rules on our turf.(Global Big Suits)LawRichard M. Rothman, Konrad L. Cailteux, Danielle Krause
Local telephone competition remains a big issue; search for a solution as much on the table as when 1996 act was enacted.(Telecommunications)LawOwen D. Kurtin
Mandates. .(power of federal appellate courts to recall their mandates)LawMark R. Kravitz
Online law school's first graduates: one problem: no accreditaton by ABA.LawMichael Ravnitzky
Peripheral defendants begin to get some relief; one recent N.Y. ruling limited damages; another set up a deferred docket for less-impaired plaintiffs.(Asbestos Litigation)LawAlan C. Eagle, Frank J. Giliberti
Privilege is simply a domestic issue; care should be taken in complex litigations, as foreign privilege rules may become a factor.(Global Big Suits)LawFrederick M. Zullow, Rekha Ramani
Pro bono: 2002 awards.LawElizabeth Amon, Steve Seidenberg, David Hechler
Proper test procedures.LawEdward J. Imwinkelried
Punching the clock is not so simple;an old statute holds new perils for employers, as workers increasingly sue, alleging wage and hour violations.(Employment Law)LawMark J. Neuberger
Rand new man; Robert T. Reville leads the Institute for Civil Justice.(California)LawGail Diane Cox
School expenses.LawBarbara Handschu, Mary Kay Kisthardt
SEC acts on selective disclosures; the agency announced its first Regulation FD enforcement actions, plus a new rule on financial data.(Corporate Governance)LawEric DeJong, Paul Sassalos, Stewart Landefeld
Setting standards for future asbestos liabilities; two courts addressed this complex and important area of law.(Asbestos Litigation)LawMark P. Goodman, Steve Vaccaro
Suits over shuttle crash face hurdles; law changed after disaster in 1986.LawAndrew Harris
Texas criminal law firm challenges an IRS rule; what's in a name? Just about everything, according to some criminal lawyers.(Law Office Enterprise)(Cover Story)LawMark E. Battersby
There ought to be a law.(need for civil procedure rule to cover electronic discovery)LawJerold S. Solovy, Robert L. Byman
The TEACH Act.(Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act)LawMary J. Hildebrand, Jacqueline Klosek
Tort reform advances in Mississippi (for starters); action is foreseen in other states.LawMark Ballard
U.S. signs on to Madrid Protocol; treaty allows for single application for member nations.(Intellectual Property)LawKeith W. Medansky, Emily Sexton
Web site disclosures; Sarbanes-Oxley has led to new SEC rules on the posting of important public-company information.(Corporate Governance)LawJonathan B. Newton, Amar Budarapu
When scandal hits; corporate executives are calling Reid Weingarten.(NLJ Business)Law 
WiFi market is likely to boom in the next few years; Wireless Fidelity users may number 5 million in 2003, with revenue in the billions.(Telecommunications)LawEric W. DeSilva
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