The landmark right to counsel case of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), famously involved a prisoner’s handwritten petition for certiorari that was granted and went on to change the legal landscape. In 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States ...
For many months, the class action defendants’ lobby has highlighted two Circuit Court opinions as the latest poster boys in a campaign whose ultimate goal is to abolish class actions. In those cases, the courts independently certified nationwide classes of ...
In 2014, we have many means that allow us to view television programs and other media on demand, at our convenience. It seems as though there were never any question that we could lawfully record television programs for viewing at ...
Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund, ___ U.S. ___ (2014). In New Jersey state court, if attorneys’ fee issues remain to be adjudicated, any judgment entered is considered interlocutory, not final, until the fee issue is resolved. See, ...
Atlantic Marine Const. Co. v. U.S. District Court, 571 U.S. ___ (2013). This case offers a lesson in differentiating when, in a contract case where the applicable agreement contains a forum selection clause, it is appropriate to file a motion ...
Oxford Health Plans LLC v. Sutter, 133 S.Ct. 2064 (2013). In Sutter v. Oxford Health Plans, LLC, 675 F.3d 215 (3d Cir. 2012), discussed here, the Third Circuit upheld an arbitrator’s interpretation of the parties’ contract that found that the contract permitted ...
Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 133 S.Ct. 1426 (2013). In this antitrust class action case, the Supreme Court of the United States split 5-4, among all too predictable lines. The majority, in a short opinion by Justice Scalia in which Chief Justice Roberts ...
Standard Fire Ins. Co. v. Knowles, 133 S.Ct. 1345 (2013). Class action plaintiffs often prefer, for strategic or tactical reasons, to bring their cases in state courts, while class action defendants normally favor federal courts. As a result, when plaintiffs bring class ...
Chafin v. Chafin, 133 S.Ct. 1017 (2013). Mr. Chafin, a United States citizen serving in the military, and Ms. Chafin, a citizen of the United Kingdom, had a daughter, E.C. When Mr. Chafin was deployed to Afghanistan, Ms. Chafin took E.C. ...
Today is the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). That decision, written by Justice Blackmun, an appointee of President Nixon, and joined in by Justices as liberal as Douglas, Brennan and Marshall and as conservative as ...