http://www.scourlawyer.com Legal News Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:48:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ScourLawyerhttp://feedburner.google.com A man's conviction for drug trafficking that involved data gathered from a GPS device is now under attack in the D.C. Circuit, where civil libertarians and privacy rights advocates have joined his defense lawyers to challenge what the attorneys say is unlawful government surveillance.Original post by LexisNexis® Mealey's� Legal News http://www.scourlawyer.com/gps-data-in-drug-conviction-under-attack/ Microsoft Outlook isn't perfect, but there is more to its e-mail and calendar functions than meets the eye. By combining some of Outlook's best undiscovered features with a little ingenuity, lawyers can reduce their stress levels and perhaps add a bit of leisure time to their schedules.Original post by LexisNexis® ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/mastering-outlook-to-increase-productivity/ OMAHA, Neb. - A Nebraska federal judge on Oct. 20 refused a motion to reconsider his denial of summary judgment under the sophisticated user defense to several chemical manufacturers and suppliers named as defendants in a multiplaintiff benzene wrongful death case brought by former workers at a Goodyear tire plant, ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/nebraska-judges-denies-reconsideration-of-summary-judgment-denial-in-benzene-case/ LOS ANGELES - Two California men filed a class action lawsuit in California federal court on Nov. 5 accusing automaker Toyota of producing vehicles that are susceptible to sudden unintended acceleration (Seong Bae Choi, et al. v. Toyota Motor Co., et al., No. CV 09-08143, C.D. Calif.). Full story on ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/automaker-sued-over-alleged-defect-that-causes-sudden-acceleration/ FRANKFORT, Ky. - A majority of the Kentucky Supreme Court on Oct. 29 found that an insured's former counsel and insurer did not act in bad faith or with negligence and did not impair procedural defenses in an underlying workers' compensation case because there is no evidence that there would ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/kentucky-high-court-upholds-judgment-for-insurer-counsel-in-bad-faith-case/ NEW ORLEANS - Because an insured is seeking additional coverage for loss of business income resulting from Hurricane Katrina's wind damage, a covered cause of loss, and is not seeking coverage for damage caused by flood, an excluded cause of loss, the insured's claim for lost business income arising out ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/insureds-claim-for-additional-lost-business-income-is-not-precluded/ While we eagerly wait to see how the landscape of patent law will shift after the Supreme Court decides Bilski, attorneys David A. Kalow and Milton Springut compare Bilski with a recent Federal Circuit decision to address just what is patentable subject matter.Original post by LexisNexis® Mealey's� Legal News http://www.scourlawyer.com/patentable-subject-matter-after-bilski/ Hewlett-Packard has reached an agreement to buy 3Com for about $2.7 billion, according to The New York Times, equal to a 39 percent premium above 3Com's closing share price Wednesday. An analyst quoted by Bloomberg said the deal better positions HP to compete with Cisco.Original post by LexisNexis® Mealey's� Legal ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/hp-acquires-3com-for-27-billion/ PHILADELPHIA - The federal judge supervising multidistrict litigation over Wyeth's diet drugs on Oct. 13 remanded claims that the drugs caused a Nevada woman's primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) with at least one dispute unresolved (In Re: Diet Drugs [Phentermine/Fenfluramine/Dexfenfluramine] Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1203, Cynthia Righetti v. Wyeth ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/fen-phen-suit-asserting-deadly-lung-disease-is-remanded-by-mdl-court/ ST. LOUIS - The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on Nov. 3 that a participant in an overfunded defined-benefit plan lacks standing to sue the plan and plan fiduciaries for breach of fiduciary duty (Randal E. McCullough v. AEGON USA, Inc., et al., No. 08-1952, 8th Cir.; ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/split-8th-circuit-no-erisa-standing-where-defined-benefit-plan-is-overfunded/