Today, in anticipation of the district court's unsealing of the court file in the Company Doe case, the baby-carrier maker Ergobaby revealed that it is "Company Doe," the company that fought for two-and-a-half years for the right to litigate in secret its challenge to the publication of a report in the Consumer Product Safety Commission's […]
Author Archives: Scott Michelman
…and what it means for the economy. The good news? The economic rebound is permitting more Americans to retire. The bad news? That's generally not a good thing for an economy. Our best hope to fix the problem? Immigration. Read more here.
Funny and sad in equal measures. Here.
Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook are going to start telling us when the government wants our online data. The government, predictably, isn't happy. The Washington Post has the story.
Many people's eyes probably start to glaze over at the mention of amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. But a recent action by the federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules bears mentioning, and not just for civil procedure nerds.
Earlier this month, the Washington Post blogged about a study purporting to show that President Obama’s judicial appointments are (in the words of the headline) “liberal, but not that liberal.” That may well be a fair characterization; anecdotally, it sounds right. But the study purports to do something much more serious than give an off-the-cuff […]
As the New York Times reports today, Federal prosecutors are nearing criminal charges against some of the world’s biggest banks, according to lawyers briefed on the matter, a development that could produce the first guilty plea from a major bank in more than two decades. The two banks highlighted are foreign banks, BNP Parabas and […]
by Jocelyn Larkin, guest blogger The Ninth Circuit issued a favorable opinion yesterday in Stockwell v. City and County of San Francisco, No. 12-15070, reversing the denial of class certification in a disparate impact age discrimination class action. The opinion was written by Judge Marsha Berzon, and joined by Judges Fisher and Wallace. The decision […]
As the Wall Street Journal reports, "[r]egulators are proposing new rules on Internet traffic that would allow broadband providers to charge companies a premium for access to their fastest lanes." What does this mean? As Tim Wu at the New Yorker explains, it's a zero-sum game, so the big, rich content providers will win out […]