Litigation

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Deal Flow Media publishes reports, and also sponsors webinars and conferences, about specialized financial markets. Deal Flow Media's markets include: Life Settlements Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPEs) Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) Reverse Mortgages Distressed Debt On November 29,...

Guidewire Launches "Accenture Behaving Badly"
In a follow-up to my December 20, 2007 post titled, "Accenture Files Patent Suit Against Guidewire," I was contacted this afternoon by a representative of Guidewire. She said that Guidewire has launched a website titled, "Accenture Behaving Badly...

Accenture, Guidewire Allegations Dismissed -- Accenture's 'bare allegations' are deemed insufficient to support either a claim that Guidewire stole trade secrets or the charge that Guidewire could be damaged by such allegations.
12/1/08 Ins. & Tech. 15 (2008) Anthony O'Donnell The Delaware U.S. District Court has dismissed both Accenture's trade secret misappropriation charges against Guidewire Software and Guidewire's subsequent charges claiming that Accenture's allegations constituted bad faith litigation that was harmful to Guidewire's prospects in the marketplace...

Judge Dismisses Aspects of Accenture's Suit Against Guidewire and Guidewire's Counterclaims.
By Anthony O'Donnell Insurance & Technology October 16, 2008 Through an opinion written by Judge Sue L. Robinson, the Delaware U.S. District Court has dismissed both Accenture's trade secret missapropriation charges against Guidewire Software, and Guidewire's countersuit alleging that Accenture's allegations constituted bad faith litigation that was harmful to Guidewire's prospects in the marketplace...

Special Sitting of Ontario Legislature Puts Toronto Transit Back to Work
Friday night 9,000 Toronto Transit Commission’s unionized workers voted on a tentative deal with the TTC and, despite the expectation by both the media and Toronto residents that they would either accept the deal or give 48 hours notice of any strike action, they did not accept the deal and went on immediate strike at [...

New Open Source Project Monitors Flows of Media
"Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the...

In debating federal media shield, don't ignore business
The underdebated federal media-shield legislation is the topic of my "My Turn" column in the latest edition of Forbes, "Too Much Freedom of the Press." Congressional discussion and media coverage/promotion have framed the issue as "free flow of information" vs...

Cash Flow An Important Metric For Law Firms
No matter how much you work, until you convert it to cash it is worthless.  The average days in the law firm cash flow cycle (from worked to collected) is 169 (source:  2007 Law Firm Economic Survey from LexisNexis)...

Federal media shield bill sputters in the Senate
The Senate has just voted 51-43, failing to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to S. 2035, the Free Flow of Information Act, i.e., the federal media shield bill. The vote was part of the continued maneuvering over whether...

Wrong Bus
Greenbrier County Board of Education agrees to $15,000 negligence settlement after dropping a 5-year-old off at the wrong spot.

Hurricane Claims
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. reaches settlement deal with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.

Wrong Medication
Walgreens agrees to confidential settlement after woman suffers miscarriage.

Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.

Nielsen Media Challenged
TV ratings company to pay undisclosed settlement in antitrust lawsuit.

Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.