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Imagine this: After years of acrimonious litigation, your company has finally defeated a meritless False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit.

Welcome to the IP(DC) podcast, a podcast covering recent D.C.-based developments in intellectual property law.

Predatory pricing, once dismissed as implausible and irrational, now is viewed by some as not only plausible, but profitable.

In 2024, U.S. courts issued consequential decisions in cases brought against foreign states and their agencies and instrumentalities under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA").

On December 13, 2006, Goodwin Procter LLP and Boston University School of Law’s Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law jointly presented a one-day conference in New York on Basel II and Basel IA. Speakers included representatives from all four federal banking regulators and the New York State Banking Department, the SEC, three rating agencies, affected financial institutions, trade groups and publications, as well as partners in Goodwin Procter’s Financial Services Group.

In Washington, the dawning year wears a gray and dispirited aspect. The Federal Communications Commission faces 2006 with two new commissioners, but no relief from its Republican-Democratic split in sight. The telecommunications industry, after a frantic round of consolidations, opens its first year in decades without the old MCI and AT&T astride the vanished interexchange telephone service marketplace. In the meantime, technology and the smart money continue to move in the direction of broadban

In this issue: The Month in Brief, Hold Placed on Nomination of Telecom Lawyer Robert McDowell to the FCC Following Endorsement by the Senate Commerce Committee, Congress Continues to Mull Data Broker Bills, AT&T-BellSouth Merger Announced, Video Competition Developments, Broadcast Developments, Legislative Developments, State Activities, Upcoming Deadlines for Your Calendar.

This Week's Florida Appeals: Weeks Of November 19 - 30, 2018

Congress passed Title III of the Helms-Burton Act in 1996 to scare investors away from Cuba by allowing US nationals to sue any persons or entities who "traffic" in property confiscated by the Castro regime.

In August of 2004, Arch Coal, Inc. ("Arch") successfully rebutted the Federal Trade Commission’s ("FTC" or "Commission") claim that the acquisition by Arch of Triton Coal Company, LLC ("Triton") would substantially lesson competition among leading coal producers in Wyoming’s Southern Powder River Basin ("SPRB"). On August 16, 2004, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the FTC’s request to enjoin the acquisition pending an administrative hearing.1 Four days later, the U.S

The United States is well known globally as a forum for costly and protracted litigation. Each year, tens of millions of lawsuits are filed within United States borders, and ...