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Rock, paper, scissors: life insurance beneficiary designation beats will

  • Bryan Cave LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

The U.S. District Court in Minnesota, in Hall v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, D. Minn., No 0:11-cv-01269-DWF-LIB, 11513, declined to give

The Supreme Court - May 13, 2013

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

The Supreme Court of the United States announced decisions in three cases today: Bowman v. Monsanto Co., No. 11-796: Respondent Monsanto brought a

Dendrite - one size may not fit all

  • Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

The Internet did not create the tension between one person's right to speak anonymously and another person's right to sue for libel, but it sure has

Supreme Court decides Millbrook v. United States

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 27 2013

On March 27, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Millbrook v. United States, No. 11-10362, holding that the waiver of sovereign

Warrantless cell phone searches a look at the case law

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

When a person is arrested with a cell phone, law enforcement officers will likely want to search the phone's contents. Today's smart phones are a

Of cars, emails and money

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 16 2009

When a state Supreme Court opinion starts with the sentence "trial courts need not tolerate deliberate and willful discovery abuse", it is easy to guess that lawyers have not been behaving nicely

Back to the future for damages in California, future damages must relate back to past paid (not billed) medical charges

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

In Corenbaum v. Lampkin, --- Cal.Rptr.3d ----, 2013 WL 1801996 (Cal.App. 2 Dist.), the court made it clear that when calculating damages in a

Caldwell v. Cablevision Systems Corp.: the New York Court of Appeals rules that high-paid witness testimony is admissible, but may require a jury charge as to potential bias

  • Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 11 2013

In a unanimous decision written by Judge Eugene Pigott, the New York Court of Appeals held in Caldwell v. Cablevision Systems Corp. that the

Supreme Court decides Moncrieffe v. Holder

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

On April 23, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Moncrieffe v. Holder, No. 11-702, holding that, under the categorical approach for determining

A hot topic in aggregate litigation: parens patriae suits

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

"Access to justice in a mass society is the central civil-justice issue of our day. Individual litigation of mass-injury claims is a luxury that