Lord Justice Jackson’s recommendations, which were by and large implemented in their entirety and came into force on 1 April 2013, were intended to be “a coherent package of interlocking reforms, designed to control costs and promote access to...
A recent report revealed that a member of the Fernley (Nevada) Youth Football League board of directors allegedly embezzled more than $24,000, and law enforcement has opened a criminal investigation into the matter. A discrepancy in the...
The Council and European Parliament recently agreed on new procedural rules for the adoption of trade defence measures (i.e. anti-dumping, antisubsidy, and safeguard measures) by the European Commission. The new rules increase the Commission’s powers...
A man applies to be a weather anchor. The station instead hires “younger attractive females.” The man then sues the station, alleging discrimination.... By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger
Hunter v. CBS Broadcasting, Inc. - California Court of Appeal reverses denial of CBS’s anti-SLAPP motion to strike plaintiff’s gender and age discrimination claims, finding that selection of weather anchors is protected activity in furtherance of...
This morning, a six-justice majority of the Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the Fourth District of the Appellate Court, holding in The Venture-Newberg-Perini, Stone & Webster v. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission that temporarily...
Can you strike a prospective juror simply because he is gay? A small number of states, including California, prohibit peremptory challenges based on sexual orientation, but the issue is unsettled in most jurisdictions, including in the federal...
Those of us with an interest in renewable energy have long wondered if offshore wind would ever reach its promise. The knots into which Cape Wind has been tied provide an object lesson – and an abject lesson – in how not to incentivize new...
ZeroAccess is one of the world’s largest botnets – a network of computers infected with malware to trigger online fraud. Recently, after having eluded investigators for months, ZeroAccess was disrupted by Microsoft and law enforcement agencies....
This Reed Smith client alert looks at the recent amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, which came into force in November 2013.... By: Reed Smith
