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Shooting and Missing with Arkansas Teacher
Caleb Jones In Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v. Countrywide Financial Corporation[1](Arkansas Teacher), a derivative claim arising out…
Gambling in the Litigation Marketplace: Third Party Litigation Financing Evens the Playing Field
Stephen Weiss Third party financing in commercial litigation is a billion dollar industry and it provides a…
Atar S.r.l. v. United States, No. 2013-1001, 2013 WL 4826340 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 11, 2013).
Laura Aboulhosn On September 11, 2013, the Federal Circuit Court held in Atar S.r.l v. United States[1]…
Joffee et al. v. Google, Inc., 2013 WL 4793247 (9th Cir. 2013)
Breanne M. Hoke In Joffe et al. v. Google, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth…
Anna Nicole Smith’s Eternal Bankruptcy Legacy
This week, the New York Opera and the Brooklyn Academy of Music are featuring the U.S. premier…
How High Must a Pig Jump? Assessing the Hurdles Facing the Smithfield-Shuanghui Acquisition
Hunter Deeley Shuanghui International Holdings Limited and Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced in May that Shuanghui would acquire…
Costly Contracts under the FAA: An Analysis of American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant
Kendra L. Clark In American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant,[1] the United States Supreme Court held…
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, 133 S.Ct. 2517 (2013)
Juhi Tariq In University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar[1], the Supreme Court heightened the causation…
Judicial Ethics and the Aluminum Company of America
In today’s Wall Street Journal, an article appeared discussing the decline of the raw aluminum smelting company…
Oral Argument Recap: Lighting Ballast Control v. Philips
Jonas Anderson, Assistant Professor, American University Washington College of Law *Business and Marketing Editor Diane Ghrist was…
