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 | State High Court Condemns Arbitration Provisions That Don't Allow Class Actions
24 March 2006 - Congress enacted the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) eight decades ago to eliminate longstanding judicial hostility to the private resolution of disputes through arbitration. The United States Supreme Court has emphasized that the FAA embodies a strong federal policy favoring arbitration, and confirmed more than twenty years ago that the FAA preempts contrary state law. Read >>
(Copyright 2006 Washington Legal Foundation) | | | Deported Illegal Alien Wants to Remain in U.S. for Hearing
22 March 2006, WASHINGTON - An immigration attorney told an apparently divided Supreme Court on Wednesday that a 1996 law denying hearings to deported aliens who returned to the United Sates unlawfully does not apply to deportees who illegally reentered before April 1, 1997, the statute's effective date. Read >>
(Reprinted with permission from Law Bulletin Publishing Company.) | |  | Supreme Court Rules Unanimously in favor of Illinois Tool Works in Printer Ink Case
1 March 2006, Washington D.C., -- The Supreme Court, in an 8-0 decision favoring Illinois Tool Works, put new limits on antitrust suits against patent holders who bundle products for sale. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partner Andrew Pincus argued the case on behalf of ITW. Read >>
| | | Seventh Circuit Allows Removal of Pre-CAFA Class Action
27 January 2006, Chicago - The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has for the first time permitted removal from state to federal court of a class action lawsuit that was originally filed prior to the enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 ("CAFA"). The ruling, announced in an opinion by Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, came in response to a petition filed by Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP and Vinson & Elkins LLP on behalf of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Read >>
| | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP Announces Academic Affiliation with Constitutional Law Scholar Eugene Volokh
19 January, 2006, Los Angeles - The international law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is pleased to announce that Eugene Volokh, who holds the Gary T. Schwartz chair at the UCLA School of Law, has joined the firm's litigation practice as an academic affiliate. Volokh, who will continue to teach at UCLA, is nationally recognized in multiple areas of the law, including cyberspace law, First Amendment law, copyright law, workplace harassment law, and right of publicity law. Read >>
| | | Supreme Court Victory for Wachovia and Other National Banks
17 January 2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in a case of significance to all national banks, that a national bank is a citizen only of the state in which its main office is located and not, as the U.S. Fourth Circuit had held, of every state in which it has a branch. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partner Andrew Frey argued the case on behalf of Wachovia Corp, working with partner Evan Tager and counsel Charles Rothfeld. It was Mr. Frey's 63rd Supreme Court argument, the most of any active member of the Bar. Read >>
| | | Illinois Supreme Court Overturns $10.1 Billion Verdict Against Philip Morris USA
15 December 2005, Chicago - The Illinois Supreme Court today overturned a $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA. The plaintiffs had alleged Philip Morris USA (a unit of Altria Group) had violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act in marketing light cigarettes as being less harmful than its regular-strength offerings. Read >>
| | | Amendments to Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
1 December 2005 - The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure were amended effective December 1, 2005. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP's Supreme Court and Appellate Practice group has prepared a brief summary of those amendments for the convenience of its clients and friends. Read >>
| | | Illinois Supreme Court Upholds 2001 Telecommunications Law
Chicago - The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Illinois legislature's 2001 comprehensive reform of Illinois telecommunications law. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP represented Illinois Bell before the court in support of the law, Big Sky Excavating Co. v. Illinois Bell Tel. Co., No. 99380 (Illinois Supreme Court). Read >>
| | | Seventh Circuit holds Vienna Convention Confers Private Right of Action
27 September 2005 - In Jogi v. Voges, decided today, the Seventh Circuit became the first court of appeals ever to hold that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations creates a private right of action. This case, argued by Mayer Brown attorney Brad Rosenberg on a pro bono basis, involves the question whether a foreign national who is not informed of his Vienna Convention right to consular access upon arrest may sue for money damages based on that violation. Read >>
| | | Advice to Solicitor General Must Remain Confidential
6 September 2005 - Speaking as former deputy solicitors general who served in the solicitor general's office for a total of 35 years, in both Democratic and Republican administrations, we believe that senatorial requests for Judge John Roberts' confidential memos, written as deputy solicitor general in the first Bush Administration, are unjustifiable and should be withdrawn. Read >>
(This article is reprinted with permission from the September 6, 2005 edition of the NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL. ¸ 2005 ALM Properties, Inc.) | | | Federal Court Ruling Undermines Defendants' Ability to Appeal Class Action Certifications
29 July 2005 - Rule 23(f) was added to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 1998 to expand the availability of interlocutory appellate relief from class certification decisions for a simple reason: whether a lawsuit is pursued individually or as a class action often has more practical significance than the underlying merits of the case. The federal courts of appeal have applied the rule grudgingly, however, limiting the availability of interlocutory review to the most extreme cases. Read >>
(Copyright ¸ 2005 Washington Legal Foundation.) | | | U.S. Court of Appeals Dismisses Price-Fixing Claim in International Vitamins Case
30 June, 2005, Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has affirmed the dismissal of a price-fixing claim brought in an international vitamins case, ruling that the court did not have jurisdiction to hear the claim. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partner Stephen Shapiro argued the case, and partners Tyrone Fahner, Kenneth Geller, Andrew Marovitz, Donald Falk, and Jeffrey Sarles also worked on behalf of defendant BASF Corporation in the case. Read >>
| | | The Impact of State Farm v. Campbell: A Two-Year Retrospective
May / June 2005 - The Supreme Court's decision in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell was greeted by many in the defense bar, including me, as a much needed message to lower courts to impose greater procedural and substantive constraints on punitive damages. I saw in
State Farm a clear command to lower courts to provide juries with more detailed instructions for the setting of punitive damages... Read >>
(This article first appeared in the American Bar Association Litigation Section's newsletter Coverage, Volume 15, Number 3 (May/June 2005).
Reprinted with Permission.) | | | Recent Developments In Medical Device Preemption Law
Spring 2005 - A patient is diagnosed with heart disease; a pacemaker is implanted. Years later, she experiences internal bleeding, which she asserts is the result of a malfunction in the device. She has surgery again and a new pacemaker is successfully implanted, but she is incapacitated for several months as a result of having had to undergo a second round of surgery. Read >>
(This article originally appeared in Products Liability, the newsletter of the ABA Section of Litigation, Committee on Products Liability Litigation. Copyright 2005, American Bar Association. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.) | | | Capitol Records Wins Copyright Ruling before NY Court of Appeals
5 April 2005, New York - The New York Court of Appeals today issued a decision in favor of Capitol Records, Inc., in its bitterly contested copyright dispute against Naxos of America, Inc. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP senior counsel Philip Lacovara argued the case on behalf of Capitol Records. Read >>
| | | Supreme Court in 7-2 Vote Rejects Tax Court Secrecy
7 March 2005, Washington D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision has overturned the United States Tax Court procedure that shielded important judicial reports from disclosure to people with cases before the court and to federal judges who review the tax court's decisions.
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| |  | Philip Lacovara: Legend in the Law
4 January 2005, Washington D.C. - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Senior Counsel Philip Lacovara is featured in the Washington Lawyer's periodic series "Legends in the Law." Read >>
| | | Ernst & Young Prevails in Fruit of the Loom Litigation
16 December 2004 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partners Stanley Parzen and Bradley Andreozzi won an important victory for Ernst & Young LLP ("E&Y") when the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of all securities fraud claims against E&Y related to its 1998 audit of apparel manufacturer Fruit of the Loom. Fidel v. Farley, No. 02-6143 (6th Cir. Dec. 16, 2004). Read >>
| | | Stephen Shapiro Argues Important Tax Case Before U.S. Supreme Court
8 December 2004 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partner Stephen Shapiro argued a significant federal tax case before the Supreme Court yesterday. The case raises statutory and constitutional objections to the U.S. Tax Court's practice of preparing trial judge reports that are held in secrecy without disclosure to the parties or even the reviewing courts. Read >>
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