Super Lawyers named Chicago and Oak Brook business trial attorney Peter Lubin a Super Lawyer for 2011 in the Categories of Class Action, Business Litigation and Consumer Rights Litigation. DiTommaso Lubin’s Oak Brook and Chicago business law attorneys have over a quarter of a century of experience in litigating complex…
NPR Reports: “Stephen Breyer: The Court, The Cases And The Conflicts” This fascinating broadcast reveals how Justice Breyer makes decisions through a “living Constitution”. The broadcast states: In Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer outlines his ideas about the Constitution and about the way…
USA Today Reports: Permanent mortgage modifications, which lower mortgage payments have been given to only about a third of the 1.3 million borrowers. The class-action lawsuits allege that the trial payment plans are contracts that obligateBank of America and other servicers to abide by them and to give…
Movie Studios Can Subpoena Internet Users’ Names, Data In File-Sharing Cases AP reports: A federal judge on Friday allowed the holder of a movie copyright to subpoena the names of people accused of illegally downloading and distributing a film over the Internet. Courts have held that Internet subscribers do…
A Boom in ‘Overtime’ Lawsuits? Blame Technology The Wall Street Journal reports: It’s something the world is growing accustomed to, for better or worse: the ever-shrinking divide between work and leisure time. Ubiquitous Internet-access, Blackberrys, cell phones — all sort of technological advances — make it easier to take…
This video compilation of the Bill Gate’s deposition in the United State’s government anti-trust case against Microsoft provides good examples of how not to behave at a deposition. Based in Chicago and Oak Brook, Ill., DiTommaso Lubin represents clients throughout Illinois and across the United States who are involved in…
HP Sues Ex-CEO Hurd Over Oracle’s Job Offer by Richard Gonzales NPR reports: Mark Hurd recently was fired from his job as CEO of Hewlett-Packard after a scandal involving an extra-martial relationship. One of HP’s main tech rivals — Oracle — wants to make Hurd its co-president. That’s prompted HP…
H-P Sues to Stop Ex-Chief’s Job By ROBERT A. GUTH, BEN WORTHEN And JOANN S. LUBLIN . The Wall Street Jornal Reports: Hewlett-Packard Co. sued to block its former chief executive from joining rival Oracle Corp. as a senior executive, alleging Mark Hurd’s hiring breaches his exit agreement and…
Landis Said to File Suit Against Cycling Team By JULIET MACUR Published: September 3, 2010 Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, is claiming that Lance Armstrong’s former team defrauded the government. This article in the New York Times describes the entire…
Wall Street Banks Benefit From Tougher Suit Standards in U.S. By Thom Weidlich – Sep 8, 2010 This Bloomberg article should be read in full at the above link. It describes how all knids of lawsuits will be tougher to pursue in federal court with stricter standards for setting…