In their latest column on Federal E-Discovery, litigation partners Chris Boehning and Dan Toal discuss two
recent federal district court decisions, including one from the Southern District of New York, that threaten sanctions on...
Well, at least almonds, according to
a recent federal district court
Well, at least almonds, according to
a recent federal district court ruling against a group of California almond growers.A federal judge has rejected a challenge by fifteen California organic almond growers to halt the mandatory treatment of raw almonds as required by the Almond Board of California.
Not exact matches
By 2001, the five growers who had been sued went to the U.S.
Federal District Court of Maryland with the defense that questioned: «Can a plant long well known in nature and cultivated and eaten by humans for decades, be patented merely on the basis of
recent realization that the plant has always had some heretofore unknown but naturally occurring beneficial feature?»
A
recent ruling by a
federal appeals
court may shield school
districts in a growing number of states against some types of lawsuits brought against them in
federal courts.
The blawg summarizes and provides links to
recent opinions by the Board of Immigration Appeals,
federal district and appeals
courts, and the U.S. Supreme
Court.
As detailed in this
recent post, a
federal district court in Alabama will be sentencing for former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth Chairman Richard Scrushy, and the case is filled with intrigue.
Judge William G. Young At the
recent annual meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, U.S.
District Judge William G. Young, in accepting the Great Friend of Justice Award, delivered a thoughtful and impassioned speech decrying the decrease in jury trials in the
federal courts.
Childress discusses a
recent ruling out of a
federal district court in New Jersey holding that undisclosed ghostwriting violates legal ethics rules and Rule 11 of the FRCP and, as such, «should not be permitted in
federal court in New Jersey.»
In a
recent decision, the
federal court for the Northern
District of Indiana denied an insurance companies» request to throw out a plaintiff's Indiana personal injury lawsuit.
Former
federal District Court judge Nancy Gertner submitted a column in a
recent edition of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (subscription required) about the current #MeToo movement.
A
recent decision issued by a
federal district court in North Carolina challenges the familiar principle that in a borrower's bankruptcy, the lender, if it is oversecured as of the bankruptcy filing date, is entitled to receive post-petition interest, attorneys» fees and other charges arising post-petition to the extent of the value of its collateral.
Dozier claims that an Idaho
federal district court agrees with him in this
recent decision which purports to hold that cease - and - desist letters are protected by copyright law.
In their latest New York Law Journal column on
Federal E-Discovery, litigation partners Christopher Boehning and Daniel Toal discuss a
recent district court decision that applied the new version of Rule 26 (b)(1) of the...
A
recent U.S.
District Court case involved the issue of whether a landlord's refusal to make the entrance of an older apartment building wheelchair - accessible was unlawful in violation of the
federal Fair Housing Act (the «FHA»).