Author: Harrision Stewart
Full 9th Circ. Urged To Resolve Net Neutrality Split
Legal Org. Tells High Court Arbitration Bids Have No Deadline
Biz Groups Ask High Court To End Calif. Arbitration Carveout
As Mo. Supreme Court Lets Talc Verdict Stand, J&J Plans to Petition for SCOTUS to Review $2.1B Award
Pennsylvania Supreme Court to Decide Whether Trial Courts May Act as Gatekeepers
Evan M. Tager, Featured Expert Contributor, Judicial Gatekeeping of Expert Evidence Evan M. Tager, a Partner in the Washington, DC office of Mayer Brown LLP, with Jonathan S. Klein, an Associate with the firm. May a court exclude an expert opinion reliant on scientific studies that offer no meaningful support for the expert’s conclusions? Most federal … Continued
Supreme Court Leaves Standing for Privacy and Cybersecurity Cases Unresolved
Guest Commentary By Michelle Visser, a Partner, David Cohen, Of Counsel, and Nicole Gelsomini, an Associate, with Orrick For a printer-friendly PDF of this commentary, click here Two recent Supreme Court developments—within just a week of each other—highlight both the central role of Article III’s injury-in-fact requirement in privacy and cybersecurity cases and the still-fractured … Continued
When Prescribing Cures for “Overpriced” Drugs, Government’s First Duty Is Do No Harm
By Glenn G. Lammi, Chief Counsel, Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Studies Division, and Corbin K. Barthold, WLF Litigation Division, Litigation Counsel. Overpriced. Excessive. Escalating. Gouging. Politicians and talking heads of every political stripe utter such words about the cost of prescription drugs with alarming regularity. Something must be done, they proclaim. But the purported problem … Continued
Department of Justice Announces First-of-its-Kind Prosecution of Opioid Distributor
Gregory A. Brower, Featured Expert Contributor, White Collar Crime & Corporate Compliance Gregory A. Brower is a Shareholder with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP in Las Vegas, NV and Washington, DC, and a member of Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Policy Advisory Board. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unveiled the unprecedented criminal charges … Continued
Updated Vertical Merger Guidelines May Be on the Horizon
M. Sean Royall, Featured Expert Contributor, Antitrust & Competition Policy — Federal Trade Commission By M. Sean Royall and Richard H. Cunningham, Partners, and Chris Wilson and Chris Kopp, Associates, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Click HERE for a printer-friendly version The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) promulgated the … Continued