To illuminate a modest living room for three hours a night for two months, you would need about a million lumen-hours of light. Now consider three inflation-adjusted numbers. One: in 1800 a subject of George III could get that much light for around £9,500. Two: in 1900 a subject of Queen Victoria could get it … Continued
Featured Expert Contributor, White Collar Crime & Corporate Compliance Gregory A. Brower, a Shareholder with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP in Las Vegas, NV and Washington, DC, with Stanley L. Garnett, a Shareholder in the firm’s Denver, CO office. The charges federal prosecutors have filed in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college-admissions corruption scandal have thrust … Continued
Featured Expert Contributor—Civil Justice/Class Actions Frank Cruz-Alvarez, a Partner in the Miami, FL office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., with Erica E. McCabe, an Associate in the firm’s Kansas City, MO office. On March 8, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Kamal v. J. Crew Grp., Inc., et al., … Continued
Featured Expert Contributor, Antitrust & Competition Policy — Federal Trade Commission M. Sean Royall, a Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, with Richard H. Cunningham, a Partner and Emily Riff, an Associate, both with the firm. For a printer-friendly version of this post, click here. On February 25, 2019, the Third Circuit issued a … Continued
Featured Expert Contributor, Legal & Regulatory Challenges for Digital Assets By Daniel S. Alter, a Shareholder in the New York, NY office of Murphy & McGonigle P.C. A common criticism of Sigmund Freud is that he built a theory of the human psyche based largely upon experiences of the mentally ill. The U.S. Securities and … Continued
Here at the WLF Legal Pulse, we routinely discuss class-action lawsuits filed against consumer-product makers, especially those who manufacture packaged foods. Plaintiffs’ lawyers have been clogging the aisles of grocery stores for years dissecting food labels for any possible regulatory misstep and perhaps signing up new clients in the process. We could write far more … Continued
Lighthouse Resources, Inc. v. Inslee, a federal lawsuit of great national consequence pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (here and here are our past posts on it), has reached a critical point after a year of pre-trial developments. In its January 3, 2018 complaint, Lighthouse Resources (LHR) and BNSF … Continued
One act in the nationwide climate-litigation sideshow recently got the proverbial hook from a Pennsylvania-based federal judge. From chambers that are fittingly just around the corner from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Judge Paul S. Diamond refused to “make the Executive a subsidiary of the Judiciary,” which is exactly what the plaintiffs in Clean Air Council, … Continued
By the end of the reign of Trajan, in what would later be called AD 117, the impending decline of the Roman Empire could be seen by anyone who looked closely at the coins. In the days of Nero, a half-century before, more than nine parts in ten of a denarius was silver. When Trajan … Continued
Stephen A. Wood, Chuhak & Tecson, P.C. A printer-friendly version of this post can be downloaded here. In 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar, 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2016), a watershed in False Claims Act jurisprudence. The Petitioner asked the Court … Continued