United States: Supreme Court Rejects Stipulation By Proposed Class Representative As Defeating Federal Removal Under Class Action Fairness Act Of 2005 - Duane Morris LLP
The Supreme Court's decision in Standard Fire eliminates one method by which a class action plaintiff can mold his or her claim to achieve this goal.
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United States: Supreme Court Closes A Loophole For Class Action Plaintiffs Who Want To Avoid Federal Court - Venable LLP
The Supreme Court has recently held that a class action plaintiff cannot avoid federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act by stipulating prior to class certification that he and the class will not seek damages exceeding $5 million in aggregate value.
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United States: New York State Publishes Sandy Action Plan - Duane Morris LLP
The State of New York has published its action plan in connection with the first $1.7 billion in Federal CDBG-DR aid appropriated by the United States Congress, and allocated to New York State, for Sandy disaster relief.
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Did Google’s Promise to ‘Do No Evil’ Convince the FTC to Do Nothing About Its Search Bias?
Has the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) been seduced by Google’s famous promise to “do no evil?” That’s the question a lot of critics are asking in the wake of the Internet search giant’s antitrust settlement with the FTC last week. The problem, critics say, isn’t simply that Google got off lightly; it’s that the FTC allowed Google to set the terms – both in defining whether the company’s behavior was harmful and in setting the terms of its punishment. “For critics of Google,” NYU Information Law Institute Fellow Nathan Newman writes on the Huffington Post, “[the] FTC decision is not bad news because we disagree with the results, but bad news because it reflects an enforcement agency failing to even ask the right questions.” (MORE: What Google’s FTC Deal Means for the Patent Wars) One of the central questions in the FTC’s antitrust investigation was how exactly to determine whether Google’s dominance in the search engine business has caused harm – and to ...
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Did Google’s Promise to “Do No Evil” Convince the FTC to Do Nothing About its Search Bias?
Has the Federal Trade Commission been seduced by Google’s famous promise to “do no evil?” That’s the question a lot of critics are asking in the wake of the Internet search giant’s antitrust settlement with the FTC last week. The problem, critics say, isn’t simply that Google got off lightly; it’s that the FTC allowed Google to set the terms – both in defining whether the company’s behavior was harmful and in setting the terms of its punishment. “For critics of Google,” NYU Information Law Institute Fellow Nathan Newman writes on the Huffington Post, “[the] FTC decision is not bad news because we disagree with the results, but bad news because it reflects an enforcement agency failing to even ask the right questions.” (MORE: What Google’s FTC Deal Means for the Patent Wars) One of the central questions in the FTC’s antitrust investigation was how exactly to determine whether Google’s dominance in the search engine business has caused harm – and to whom? ...
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