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Sanctions against two attorneys who insist that former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld caused the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks have been upheld by a unanimous 2nd Circuit panel that refused to disqualify itself from the case. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

NEW YORK – Despite “serious reservations” about a perceived proliferation of ex parte applications for expedited discovery in online file-sharing cases, a New York federal judge on Jan. 30 found that good cause exists for a plaintiff to engage in “cabined, expedited discovery” with respect to several John Doe defendants (Digital Sin Inc. v. John [...]

BROOKLYN, NY – The New York federal judge overseeing the pamidronate multidistrict litigation on Jan. 30 dismissed the claims of the last nine plaintiffs in the litigation after they did not oppose a finding that their claims involving the generic version of Aredia are preempted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s generic preemption ruling in Pliva, [...]

The next Citizens United may have nothing to do with campaign finance or the First Amendment. In a case the Supreme Court will hear this month, corporations argue that they have no liability under a 1789 statute for torts committed abroad in violation of international law or U.S. treaties. View full post on Law.com – [...]

PHILADELPHIA – A John Doe copyright infringement defendant on Jan. 30 was denied reconsideration of a ruling that cleared the way for a subpoena to be served that could reveal his true identity (K-Beech Inc. v. John Doe, No. 11-7083, E.D. Pa.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10716). View full post on LexisNexis® Mealey’s™ Daily Legal [...]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A Tennessee federal judge on Jan. 27 said the state’s discovery rule tolls a plaintiff’s shoulder pain pump case against Stryker Corp. and that the plaintiff’s complaint adequately pleaded elements of fraud (Jacob Cates, et al. v. Stryker Corp., et al., No. 3:10-546, E.D. Tenn., Knoxville Div.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9825). [...]

Lawyers in Guantanamo Sept. 11 case seek deadline extension that would likely …Washington Post11 attack asked the Pentagon on Thursday to extend a deadline for pretrial motions, which could again delay a case that has been stalled by political and legal disputes for years. The attorneys for Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi sent …Sept. [...]

PHILADELPHIA – A confessed murderer who sued Eli Lilly and Co. alleging that its Prozac antidepressant caused him to kill his father missed the statute of limitations for filing his claim, a panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 31 (Kurt Danysh v. Eli Lilly and Company, No. 11-3883, 3rd Cir.). [...]

A federal judge has ruled that the SEC could substitute the executor for the estate of Charles Wyly Jr. in an insider trading case against the now-deceased billionaire. The ruling establishes for the first time that the SEC can continue to seek disgorgement against defendants even after they have died. View full post on Law.com [...]

An insurance company for Penn State has asked a Philadelphia court to declare it should not have to provide coverage or pay the university’s defense costs in a suit stemming from the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal, unless the abuse in the underlying case began in what appeared to be a narrow time frame. View [...]