News: 13 counties receive Family Court grants

(Sam Hasler's Indiana Divorce " Family Law Blog)
From The Indiana Lawyer Daily came 13 counties receive Family Court grants (yes, another hiatus created delay): "Counties receiving grants for 2009 are Tippecanoe, $40,000; Clark, $30,000; Marion, $20,000; Vanderburgh, $15,000; Porter and Lake, $10,000 each; Johnson, $7,000; Henry, $5,000; and Owen, $2,000. Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, and Lawrence counties are sharing a $20,000 grant." Well, Madison and Delaware Counties do not appear. The only county close is Henry.
July 2, 2009 01:00 am
A spokesperson from AstraZeneca tells us that plaintiffs' lawyers have voluntarily dismissed two Seroquel lawsuits set for November trials in Delaware. AstraZeneca has a gloating statement: With this announcement, the initial seven cases prepared ... are unproven claims that Seroquel caused diabetes in the individual plaintiffs. That continues to hold true as we see that plaintiffs' lawyers have placed a huge burden on valuable court and public resources, bringing claims that they are repeatedly ...
July 1, 2009 02:46 pm

Hedge Fund Records

(Hedge Fund Law Blog)
... under the Delaware Uniform Limited Partnership Act A vast majority of hedge funds are structured as limited partnerships under the Delaware Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the DULPA). The code is very flexible and allows the limited partnership agreement (LPA) ... and records, pertinent extracts therefrom, or duly authenticated copies thereof, to be brought within the State of Delaware and kept in the State of Delaware upon such terms and conditions as the order may prescribe. (f) The rights of a ...
June 30, 2009 09:12 am
... (NASC), which benefited at that time from the able leadership of Jack O'Connell, Jr., the long-serving director of the Delaware Statistical Analysis Center. The symposium could not have happened without the full partnership and support of three ... comprises people interested in sentencing and includes members and staff of sentencing commissions, judges, public officials, lawyers, academics, and other practitioners. It is one of the few places where people from these varied - but interdependent - ...
June 30, 2009 08:29 am
... Court Code Numbers, 2008: [www.jakelaw.com] 2009-06-20 22:30:49 · Reply · View PIbuzz: Government employees: updates for Delaware, Iowa, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Washington. [pibuzz.com] 2009-06-19 22:06:20 · Reply · View PIbuzz: Household ... : RT @idexperts: RT @doza: Bozeman has job applicants give their UN and PW to social networking sites [bit.ly] Lawyers take note.. 2009-06-18 23:20:02 · Reply · View PIbuzz: GAO: IDENTITY THEFT:Governments Have Acted to Protect Personally ...
June 29, 2009 07:31 am
The fascinating case of Caplash v. Rochester Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates, LLC, involving a multi-faceted litigation between 50-50 members of a dental surgery practice, was fodder last year for several appellate and trial court decisions which in turn were fodder for several posts on this blog (see here, here and here). In what likely is the case's last hurrah, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, earlier this month affirmed a series of trial court rulings by Monroe County ...
June 29, 2009 02:00 am

Hedge Fund Domain Names

(Hedge Fund Law Blog)
... names for their management company and hedge fund (see Naming Your Hedge Fund). This difficulty is compounded by the fact that the desired name may not be available to use in the state which the management company resides (or with regard to the fund, in Delaware). An added difficulty is thinking of a name that also has a good available website domain available. Why Have a Hedge Fund Website? Website domains are now an integral part of the hedge fund package. Hedge fund investors are becoming ...
June 28, 2009 01:34 pm

Retaining Key Target Employees: Lessons For Acquirors

(The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog)
This post is by my colleagues Jonathan Layne, Mark Lahive and Ben Ross. Common issues confronting acquirors involve retaining the target company's key employees and protecting against the loss of business to defecting employees. A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision addressed issues faced by an acquiror, where a group of the target company's employees plotted to leave the target company and launch a competing business prior to the acquisition's close. The court's decision in Ivize of ...
June 28, 2009 07:22 am
... authorities complain that US assistance to Panama requests is close to null). This includes requesting Panama authorities to demand from Panama lawyers to provide client records despite attorney-client privilege rules. However, this has proven to be insufficient for competitors ... original incorporation date. Wyoming EZ Corp A Side by Side Comparison of Wyoming and Nevada and Delaware Benefits Nevada Wyoming Delaware No state corporate income tax No tax on corporate shares No franchise tax Minimal ...
June 28, 2009 12:43 am
... /or other noticeable stress in steering, or accelerated abnormal tire wear. Ultimately, this kind of condition can lead to "wheel separation, possibly resulting in a vehicle crash," according to Kia. The states affected by the recall include Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. Kia dealers ...
June 25, 2009 02:43 pm

Lawyers, Law Firms and Blogging

(Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog)
... touch with existing colleagues and meeting new practitioners in this area. I have strengthened ties and made new contacts with lawyers and judges (and their clerks) who are readers of this blog and who tell me that they benefit from the ... latest decisions from the two courts that are predominately covered on these pages. Others around the world searching on Google for "Delaware corporate litigation" will find this blog as the first result of that search, which leads people to me that I otherwise ...
June 24, 2009 08:46 pm
... prevailing party to attorneys' fees, the court still analyzes the reasonableness of fees based on Rule 1.5(a) of the Delaware Lawyers' Rules of Professional Responsibility, as well as the following factors: "The time and labor required, the novelty and ... at * 4 (Del. Ch. Apr. 27, 2004)). On the other hand "expenses" has a definition that is recognized in Delaware to be much broader. One lesson that can be learned from this case is that when drafting agreements that are intended to "shift fees and ...
June 24, 2009 01:00 pm
... with the most cases are Minnesota (6), Washington (5), Colorado (5), Illinois (5), Ohio (4), Massachusetts (4), Texas (3) and Maine (3). The complete list -- provided by the CDC -- goes as follows: Arkansas (1), Arizona (2), California (2), Colorado (5), Delaware (1), Hawaii (1), Iowa (2), Illinois (5), Kentucky (1), Massachusetts (4), Maryland (2), Maine (3), Minnesota (6), Missouri (2), Montana (1), North Carolina (1), New Hampshire (2), New Jersey (1), Nevada (2), Ohio (4), Oklahoma (1), ...
June 20, 2009 09:19 am
... with the most cases are Minnesota (6), Washington (5), Colorado (5), Illinois (5), Ohio (4), Massachusetts (4), Texas (3) and Maine (3). The complete list -- provided by the CDC -- goes as follows: Arkansas (1), Arizona (2), California (2), Colorado (5), Delaware (1), Hawaii (1), Iowa (2), Illinois (5), Kentucky (1), Massachusetts (4), Maryland (2), Maine (3), Minnesota (6), Missouri (2), Montana (1), North Carolina (1), New Hampshire (2), New Jersey (1), Nevada (2), Ohio (4), Oklahoma (1), ...
June 20, 2009 09:19 am
... of the link between Seroquel and weight gain and diabetes, a federal judge ruled. Plaintiffs' lawyers' expert on Seroquel, the chairwoman of the epidemiology department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is expected to opine that Seroquel causes metabolic ... general principle that Seroquel can cause diabetes. As American Law Litigation Daily pointed out on Monday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Joseph Slights was pretty discouraging about the future of the Seroquel lawsuits in his recent ...
June 19, 2009 01:46 pm

Pfizer Sues Mylan Over Patents for Top-Drug Lipitor

(Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement Updates)
... and Susan Decker at Bloomberg: Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drugmaker, sued rival Mylan Inc. asking a judge to prohibit sales of a generic version of its cholesterol-fighting medicine Lipitor until 2017. In federal court papers filed today in Wilmington, Delaware, lawyers for New York-based Pfizer contend a Mylan affiliate has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for permission to sell copies of ...
June 17, 2009 05:02 am

Morning Links 6/16

(E-Disc Law)
... about The Plumbing of a Motion to Compel, the discussion of a failed argument to avoid the production of ESI because of undue burden. The Delaware Corporate and Commerical Litigation Blog recently provided two posts of interest. The first discussed Four Recent Chancery ... Discovery Blog recently discussed a case where Untimely objections doom motions to compel. Ride The Lightning offered an endorsement of a new book on e-Discovery, Electronic Evidence and Discovery: What Every Lawyer Should Know.
June 16, 2009 07:03 am

LAW.COM Newswire Highlights

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... & Bruns Tells Jury that Banks Betrayed Huntsman • Tonnage Clause Day at the Supreme Court • Insurer Blames N.J. Lawyer for Blot on Title • Chinese Drywall Lawsuits Consolidated • 11th Circuit Panel Reverses Decision Denying Class Certification in Workers' Suit ... Brown Partners for London Launch • Jenner Wins Transfer of Iraqi Gitmo Detainee Cleared for Release Six Years Ago • Delaware Chancery Homes In on EDD • Few Large Firms Answer FMC's Calls for Help • Movies That Hold Lessons for Lawyers
June 16, 2009 02:40 am
... warn you, or a particular type of sense of humor. Happily, I have both. At one point, when it was pointed out to the judge by the lawyer for the U.S. Trustee's Office, Joseph McMahon, that there was a particular rule that the judge seemed not about to ... 't show respect to authority figures. Sorry, guys, but bankruptcy court is what it is. Notorious. There is a reason companies incorporate in Delaware, you know, no matter what state they are in physically. And it's not the view. So, the bottom line ...
June 15, 2009 05:15 pm
... pact to wriggle out of the deal. The judge ordered Apollo to use its best efforts to close the transaction. After the Delaware ruling, Huntsman, based in The Woodlands, Texas, sued the banks in state court, alleging that they also interfered with the ... reached a $1 billion settlement that included a $325 million payment from the banks. Click here for a blog post on an American Lawyer article on Wachtell Lipton's alleged role in the Huntsman/Apollo situation. Now Huntsman has taken aim at the ...
June 15, 2009 06:30 am
 
 

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