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A husband and wife injured by a texting driver are trying to break new ground by suing the person with whom he exchanged messages just before the crash. The couple claim that because Kyle Best was answering a text from Shannon Colonna, Colonna was “electronically present” in Best’s pickup when it hit their motorcycle, causing [...]

The accelerating demise of Dewey & LeBoeuf continued Thursday as more partners defected for Am Law 200 shops and a spin-off boutique. Plus, the struggling firm found itself hit with its first suit under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act, and federal regulators moved to take over underfunded pension plans covering nearly 1,800 Dewey employees. [...]

Legal scholar warns antitrust suit against Google would stifle free speechThe Hill (blog)By Brendan Sasso – 05/09/12 10:05 AM ET Google has the same right to organize its search results as a newspaper has to decide which stories to cover, according to legal scholar Eugene Volokh. In a white paper released Wednesday, Volokh, a legal [...]

Gibbons is not liable in a malpractice suit by an ex-client whose invention was copied by a competitor after the firm secured a patent, the Federal Circuit has ruled. The suit claimed the firm’s attorneys drafted the patent too narrowly, allowing another company to build a nearly identical tool without infringing the patent. View full [...]

In a suit against major ratings agencies, a New York federal judge has found that plaintiffs lawyers produced strong evidence that the agencies not only bestowed their blessings on doomed securities, but also collaborated with banks to create risky financial products and tailored their ratings to seduce investors to buy in. View full post on [...]

An attorney for the Authors Guild urged a federal judge Thursday to reject Google’s motion to dismiss its Copyright Act claim over Google’s digital library, and asked that the case be certified as a class action. Counsel for Google argued that the Authors Guild lacks standing to sue on behalf of individual authors. View full [...]

Reversing an earlier ruling, the Eleventh Circuit has rejected Morgan Keegan’s arguments that the SEC hadn’t identified any materially misleading statements by the investment firm in its case over $647 million in auction-rate securities gone bad. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, has failed to convince a New York state court judge that he is immune from a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him. Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon this morning declined to dismiss the civil case stemming from Strauss-Kahn’s alleged conduct. View full post on [...]

A Texas jury has returned a $13.7 million verdict in favor of an attorney and his wife who alleged they were wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting the wife of a former legal client and that hundreds of anonymous online posts about the case harmed their reputations and caused emotional trauma. View full post on Law.com [...]

Two days after being ordered by a federal judge to bare all, at least in regards to financial records and internal communications, adult website Perfect 10 chose to end its long-running copyright battle with Google. Perfect 10 had claimed that individuals could see free thumbnails of its content by using Google. View full post on [...]