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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines March 29, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com,  March 29, 2010.

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The Decade's Most Influential Lawyers

"For our annual Most Influential Lawyers special report, the editors of The National Law Journal have selected 40 attorneys in a dozen key legal areas whose work between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec. 31, 2009, was so consequential that it helped to push the profession, an industry or a practice area substantially forward."

 

Where to hold Toyota trial?

"The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation met on March 25 to consider how and where to organize more than a dozen lawsuits filed against Toyota litigation. "

 

DOJ's new tricks to fight foreign corruption shake up defense

"Last week, lawyers piled into the ceremonial courtroom of the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington to hash out the scope of the government's most ambitious and controversial Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecution"

 

A border battle over lawsuits

"Six years after the moniker was first coined, a 'foreign-cubed"'suit has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case challenges the use of American courts by foreign plaintiffs."

 

Victim fights for her name

"Advocates for domestic violence victims are sounding the warning about a little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court case that they say could make it much harder for battered women and men to enforce restraining orders against their abusers."

 

Pfizer hit with $141 million RICO penalty

"Pfizer has been socked with an eye-popping $141 million penalty for unlawfully promoting its epilepsy drug Neurontin for unapproved uses for which, the plaintiffs said, it didn't even work. A federal jury in Boston concluded that the pharmaceutical giant had violated federal racketeering laws in promoting the drug for so-called off-label uses that were ineffective. The jury's verdict was actually $47 million, but the penalty was automatically tripled under the RICO Act."

 

Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez gets a third concurrent sentence of 20 years

"A federal judge in Boston sentenced Albert Gonzalez on March 26 to 20 years and one day for a case involving hacking attacks against five companies. The sentence came a day after he was sentenced to two concurrent sentences of 20 years by another judge for two other cases involving hacking attacks; the most recent sentence will run concurrently with the other two."

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