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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines September 25, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>NLJ.com, </em>September 25, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">Subscription required for online access: </font><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp" target="_blank"><font size="2">http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp</font></a></p> <p><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699" size="2"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDCTSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVS" target="_blank">FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE | Employers face Hobson's choice in protecting pregnant workers</a></b></font><br/><font size="2"><font color="#333333">"Employers are landing in hot water for keeping pregnant employees out of hazardous areas. Most recently, employers in Texas and California settled lawsuits that claimed they wrongfully prohibited pregnant employees from working in certain areas. In both cases, employers claimed they were just trying to do the right thing; the employees claimed discrimination. Management-side attorneys say their well-intentioned clients are in a tough spot: Protect a pregnant worker and risk a discrimination lawsuit, or let her work in a hazardous area and risk a tort claim should a child be born with a defect."</font><br/><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDCTSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVT" target="_blank">FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE | Embattled WaMu fights patent infringement allegations while shopping for buyer </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Washington Mutual has become part of an ongoing patent infringement campaign by transaction processing firm DataTreasury Corp. against dozens of companies for allegedly infringing check-imaging technology. The case is risky for WaMu, which is shopping for a buyer or government bailout, given that a few high-profile defendants have recently settled. Also, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has affirmed the patents in question during a re-examination last year, said Jim Hall, a partner at Washington-based Sughrue Mion." </font><br/><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDCTSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVU" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY | Federal judge threatens sanctions against Mayer Brown, AT&T Mobility lawyers </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"A federal judge took AT&T Mobility lawyers and their counsel at Mayer Brown to task in a decision this week, saying he may impose sanctions on both for alleged misrepresentations in a consumer case. "In this court's view, the conduct of ATTM (including its counsel) provides a sufficient basis for serious consideration of the imposition of a sanction," wrote U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly." </font><br/><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDCTSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVW" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY | Boston-area in-house counsel see slow growth in legal spending ahead </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Boston-area corporate executives and in-house counsel anticipate slow legal spending growth for Boston's nearly $2 billion legal services market and pegged seven firms as practice area standouts, according to a new study. But the surveyed corporations identified no standout law firms in the intellectual property litigation arena, a lucrative area that Boston law firms frequently tout as a particular specialty for their firms."</font><br/><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDCTSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVY" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY | U.S. judge who resigned after DWI arrest joins Posternak Blankstein </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"Former U.S. District of Massachusetts federal bankruptcy judge Robert Somma, who resigned after a drunk driving arrest, is now senior counsel at Posternak Blankstein & Lund. Somma joins the Boston-based midsize firm's bankruptcy department"</font><br/><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --></font><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDCTSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVB" target="_blank"><font size="2">WEB-ONLY | Suit seeks NCAA testing of African-American athletes for sickle cell trait </font></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#333333">"Should the National Collegiate Athletic Association be required to test African-American athletes for sickle cell trait as part of their annual physicals? Absolutely, according to a lawsuit filed this week by the family of a Rice University football player who died in 2006 allegedly due to causes related to sickle cell trait after an intense workout. The parents of player Dale Lloyd II have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in a Texas state court that names the NCAA, Rice University, the former Rice football head coach and several assistant coaches, and two nutritional supplement manufacturers as defendants." </font><br/><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDCTSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVC" target="_blank">WEB-ONLY | L.A. bar opposes controversial resolution to pay mediators who work with local courts </a></b></font><br/><font color="#333333">"The board of the Los Angeles County Bar Association recently voted to oppose a controversial resolution to pay mediators who have been providing free services to the local courts. The resolution would change a section of the state's Code of Civil Procedure to require the parties in a lawsuit to pay for a mediator. Current law states that mediators should be paid out of the state's budget, but those funds have long deteriorated. As a result, most mediators provide the first three hours of their services for free." </font></font></p> <p><font color="#333333" size="2">OPINION:</font></p> <p><font color="#333333"> </font><br/><!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --><font color="#336699" size="2"><b><a class="headline" href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQDCTSQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVSR" target="_blank">THE FILIP MEMO | DOJ's latest gambit</a></b></font><br/><font size="2"><font color="#333333">"On Aug. 28, Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip announced that the Department of Justice had (once again) revised its corporate charging guidelines. Unfortunately, this "new" version of the Principles of Federal Prosecution is simply a disingenuous effort to forestall congressional action on pending legislation by paying lip-service to the sanctity of the attorney-client privilege while articulating policies that undermine it. DOJ is hoping to avoid legislation, but we urgently need to get it passed."</font><br/></font></p><!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter -->

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).