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National Law Journal: Selections from Legal Times Afternoon Update September 29, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, September 29, 2009.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Mandatory Anthrax Vaccinations

"A federal appeals court in Washington today refused to stop mandatory anthrax vaccinations for servicemembers, finding that the vaccine was properly approved. In a unanimous ruling, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the dismissal of a suit filed by eight servicemembers who were challenging a Food and Drug Administration order that found the vaccine effective."

 

Lawyers for Former Fannie Mae Executives Ask for Access to Witness

"The attorneys for three former Fannie Mae executives were in court today trying to convince a federal judge to let them depose a government official that they argued would help them prove that their clients were victims of biased regulators."

 

AG Nickles: 'We're Going to Get These Cases Settled'

"D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles is confident the city will settle two civil cases stemming from the mass arrest of protestors in 2002 in Pershing Park. But at what cost to the city? The numbers being tossed around, Nickles said in court today, are large. And confidential. "

 

Judge Sets Hearing on Injunction to Block Voting Machine Merger

"Judge Robert Kugler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey didn't immediately rule on a request for an injunction that would block the merger of two large voting machine manufacturers, instead setting a hearing for Nov. 12. "

 

Linda Singer to Launch State Attorneys General Practice at Cohen Milstein

"Former D.C. Attorney General Linda Singer and her former chief of staff Betsy Miller have signed on to plaintiff's firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to launch a new public client practice at the firm. Singer will start work at the firm tomorrow as a partner, and Miller will start as counsel."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).