A young Google account manager was killed on Sunday. Vanessa Marcotte, 27, was found dead near her mother’s home in Princeton, Massachusetts, a small town of fewer than 3,500 people. Marcotte, who lives in New York City, was visiting her mother for the weekend. She’d gone out for a walk or a run in the…
By: Victor Li While the debate over non-lawyer ownership of law firms continues to rage in the United States, several lawyers in the U.K. seem to be pleased with the way outside investments have helped their firms. Two UK firms have thrived since a 2011 law went into effect allowing law firms to solicit funding…
By: Debra Cassens Weiss A federal appeals court has ruled against the Federal Communications Commission in its bid to stop states from limiting the expansion of internet service provided by cities. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals ruled (PDF) against the FCC on Wednesday, report Ars Techica, the Hill, the Memphis Business Journal…
A New Jersey law legalizing gambling on sports has been struck down by a federal appeals court. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in an en banc opinion, the New York Times and NJ.com report. How Appealing links to additional coverage and the opinion (PDF). The 3rd Circuit found the New…
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Monday affirmed [opinion, PDF] a lower court ruling that barred Ecuadoran plaintiffs from collecting a USD $8.646 billion Ecuadoran judgment against Chevron Corp. The lower court had concluded in 2014 that the Ecuadoran judgment was obtained through corruption and fraud and barred the…
By Brittney Felder [JURIST]. The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed [Opinion, PDF] on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by third party presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein against the Commission on Presidential Debates [official website] requesting that third party candidates be included in the presidential debate this year….
A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday invalidated two patents on a system of sharing streaming video, marking a victory for Google Inc. and its subsidiary YouTube LLC. Ruling on Google’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, U.S. District Judge Gregory M. Sleet said the patent claims of Massachusetts-based VideoShare were directed to an abstract idea…
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Cooper, a former DC public defender, addresses prosecutor Michele Hanisee’s remarks concerning the death penalty in California… Speaking in favor of Proposition 66, the ballot initiative that seeks to speed up executions in California to Texas-like levels of lethality, Los Angeles deputy district attorney Michele Hanisee told legislators during testimony before…
[JURIST] The Delaware Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that the state’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional. Citing a January US Supreme Court decision [JURIST report] that found that Florida’s death penalty scheme violated the Sixth Amendment [text], the Delaware court found that the law gives judges too great a role in imposing…
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed into law an updated equal-pay measure that bans employers from asking job applicants about their current and previous pay. The “groundbreaking” law makes Massachusetts the first state to ban questions about salary history before job offers are made, the New York Times DealBook blog reports. Applicants can voluntarily disclose…
