Last Week At WLF

New Publications

• Influential Federal Court Mandates Daubert Analysis At Class Certification Stage
  By Jennifer L. Brown, a San Francisco-based partner in the law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.’s Global Product Liability and Class Action and Complex Litigation groups.

• Global Warming Lawsuits: Poised For Supreme Court Hot List?
  By Victor E. Schwartz, Phil Goldberg, and Christopher E. Appel, attorneys in the law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.’s Public Policy Group.

• California’s Unprecedented Green Chemistry Law Advances
  By Gene Livingston, a shareholder in the Sacramento office of the law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

 

 

New Briefs:

• Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp.
  On July 7, 2010, the Washington Legal Foundation filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit urging it to reject an appeal filed by the Alaskan village of Kivalina.

New Commentaries From The Legal Pulse:

• The Times Reproduces the FTC’s Flawed Position on Drug Patent Settlements – Glenn Lammi
• CMS Administrator Appointed: Will Patient Care Take a Recess? – Dan Popeo
• The Administration Was Against Preemption Before It Was For It – Cory Andrews