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Thursday, October 7, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDTAntitrust “reformers” insist that big corporations’ abuse of power and the accompanying societal ills compel abandonment of the consumer-welfare standard in favor of a vague structuralist test. But as our panelists will explain, history and econom...
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Thursday, September 30, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDTAs companies begin to prepare year-end reports and plan shareholder meetings, our panelists will review ESG governance alternatives, disclosure risk considerations, and recent litigation and investigation examples in the ESG space.
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Monday, September 20, 2021 · 2:00 PM EDTOur panel of appellate experts and SCOTUS big-thinkers will prepare you for the Court’s new term with snapshots of granted cases and pending petitions, as well as insights on how the glare of external attention has affected the Court’s inner worki...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDTThe Supreme Court's "business docket" this Term featured both prominent companies and lesser-known enterprises contesting cases that implicate such major areas of law as antitrust, copyright, securities fraud, Article III standing, and environment...
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Monday, June 14, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDTIn the midst of a revival of competition policy unmoored from economic analysis and neutral principles, Judge Robert Bork’s seminal "The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War" with Itself has reappeared on bookstore shelves. Join the book’s new publi...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDTThe Supreme Court’s unanimous "AMG Capital Management v. FTC" decision ends FTC frequent use of federal-court actions to pursue restitution and related remedies in consumer-protection and antitrust matters. Since the April 22 decision, both regula...
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Thursday, May 6, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDTThe Supreme Court’s May 2019 "Merck v. Albrecht" decision clarified that judges, not juries, should analyze a prescription drug maker’s federal preemption defense in failure-to-warn suits. Under "Albrecht," courts must decide whether companies cou...
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Thursday, March 25, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDTAs courts around the country begin to open back up, judges are facing increasing pressure to get through the backlog of cases caused by pandemic-related shutdowns. To do so, many courts are relying on reforms that were hastily adopted in the name ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 · 3:30 PM ESTOn March 2, Johnson & Johnson petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Missouri appeals court decision that upheld one of the largest product liability verdicts in American history and awarded $2.1 billion in compensatory and punitive damages...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 · 2:30 PM ESTMassive government-spending programs and increased federal and state involvement in healthcare delivery have led to a growth in government contracting. That means more businesses are subject to the False Claims Act (FCA), state false-claims laws, ...
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Thursday, February 11, 2021 · 1:00 PM ESTOur panel of appellate and subject-matter experts will discuss the state of the Supreme Court's current Term at midpoint, with an emphasis on cases to be argued in the coming months, including Goldman Sachs v. Arkansas, TransUnion v. Ramirez, and ...
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Thursday, January 14, 2021 · 1:00 PM ESTLaws in three-quarters of U.S. states prohibit or severely restrict defendants in motor-vehicle-accident jury trials from introducing evidence that injured drivers or passengers had not buckled their seatbelt. Our speakers will explain how these o...
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