From this morning’s National Law Journal: Federal lawmakers have renewed legislation that would require judges to consider the public’s interest before agreeing to seal court records about products liability lawsuits with companies. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced the Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2014 in the Senate this month. Rep. … Continue reading Sunshine in Litigation Act reintroduced
David White (Seton Hall) was recently named Clinical Professor of the Year at Seton Hall (announcement here) and also accepted a civilian appointment to NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s “Reengineering 2014” team. The group will critically examine many facets of the NYPD’s day-to-day operations and offer recommendations for process re-design. Bravo David! MM
For those law school ADR Evangelists looking for opportunities to woo colleagues from other doctrinal disciplines, the Anadarko / Kerr-McGee settlement yesterday should have you scrambling to talk with your faculty colleagues in Environmental Law and in Bankruptcy. My short (and admittedly potentially still not as well-informed as it should be) version is this: Kerr-McGee, … Continue reading $5.15B Environmental Settlement in Anadarko / Kerr-McGee
Article posted this morning and available here. First three paragraphs below. As an aside, the environmental attorney cited in the article is an Oregon Law alum. The more important questions this article raises relate to the availability of attorney fees in a wide range of contexts in which fee-shifting is an important settlement dynamic. MM … Continue reading National Law Journal on “Sue and Settle” Cases
Appeared on 250words.com last week. Available here. Mostly familiar names. Some less so. Wouldn’t be my list, but then, that’s what makes it interesting… MM
I’m not sure I’m surprised by the contents. Depends on how optimistic I was feeling before I read the draft. Available at bit.ly/1ma8X3S TOTH: John Steele (@JohnSteele2225) via Twitter
From Twitter: (@LegalTechDesign). Plea Agreement Project ift.tt/NaNUlM pic.twitter.com/sHPWHGISU8
From this morning’s Chronicle of Higher Ed (here). The state of Maryland and lawyers representing historically black colleges have agreed to mediation after a federal judge ruled this month that the state had failed to fully desegregate its public higher-education system. The ruling stemmed from a 2006 lawsuit filed by students and alumni of the … Continue reading “Maryland Agrees to Mediation to Resolve College-Desegregation Ruling”
Article by that title in this morning’s National Law Journal (here). Of course, with that title, it could have been book-length. But the article, written by two partners at Sidley Austin in L.A., really focuses only on arbitration. The authors captured employer sentiment beautifully with the phrase, “You Had Me at Class Action Waiver.” It’s … Continue reading “The Pros and Cons of ADR Clauses”
Next week, my alma mater (Marietta College in Ohio) is presenting a fall concert titled, “Music During Times of Conflict.” Really interesting to think about conflict through lens of a music department, and even though I’ve long been a vocal proponent of an interdisciplinary / liberal arts approach to understanding conflict, I confess that I’d … Continue reading “Music During Times of Conflict”
