Last Week At WLF

New Publications:

• Appeals Court Rejects Certification For Injunctive Relief In Class Action
  By LeAnn W. Nealey, a member of Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC in the firm’s Ridgeland, Mississippi office.
• Comments Needed On OMB Report To Congress On Regulations
  By Stephen I. Richer, Director of Outreach at Washington Legal Foundation, and Adam Bethke, a research assistant at WLF.
• Court’s Educational Media Ruling: A Dubious Detour From Commercial Speech’s Protective Path
  By Rebecca K. Glenberg, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia.

Litigation Updates:

• Gonzalez v. State of Arizona
  On April 27, 2011, the U.S. Court Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed to reconsider its recent decision striking down a portion of Proposition 200, an initiative adopted in 2004 by Arizona voters. The decision was a victory for WLF, which filed a…
• In re: Dissemination of Comparative Effectiveness Research to Patients and Providers to Increase Adoption
  On April 25, 2011, WLF urged the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to clarify the standards that will govern federally funded “academic detailers” who provide pharmaceutical and other treatment information to health care providers….

From the Legal Pulse:

• Arizona Law Injects Transparency into AG Contracts with Private Lawyers – By Tiger Joyce, American Tort Reform Association
• It’s Deja Vu for Louisiana Economy as Law School Clinic, Activists Challenge Air Permit – By Glenn Lammi, Washington Legal Foundation
• Creatures Furry and Not: The New Oil Czars? – By Stephen Richer, Washington Legal Foundation
• Cash-Strapped State Courts Remedy: A Litigation Excise Tax? – By Dan Popeo, Washington Legal Foundation
• Supreme Court Observations: AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion – By Andrew McBride and Thomas McCarthy, Wiley Rein LLP