This panel of experts provided diverse perspectives examining current trends and issues in securities litigation as well as the state and federal legislative backdrop against which the litigation must be tested. Issues included, but were not limited to, questions of whether changes in treatment of securities claims in Delaware and other states have caused a … Continue reading “The Changing Landscape of Securities Litigation: Mergers, Events-Based Securities Claims, and Emerging Litigation and Settlement Dynamics in Federal and State Courts”
Like so many other areas, employers, employees, and employment law have not been immune to the impact of COVID-19. This balanced group of panelists examined the law, economics, and policy of the changing public health conditions of employer-employee legal relations during COVID-19, as well as how the new state of affairs affects the economics of … Continue reading “Employment Law and Employer Liability Issues Implicated by COVID-19”
With multiple companies creating a vaccine in record time, the COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the role pharmaceuticals and regulatory agencies play in combating an unseen opponent. Our reliance on a healthy pharmaceutical industry is nothing new, and questions of how to regulate pharmaceutical products, including their prices, have long been the subject of debate. Recently, … Continue reading “Symposium on the Economics and Law of Pharmaceutical Regulation: Emerging Issues”
The pharmaceutical industry is in the headlines daily for its record-breaking efforts developing COVID-19 vaccines. While most press has been very positive, some aspects of this industry have been and still remain a matter of regular debate, especially drug prices. In the name of drug pricing transparency, many state governments have become more active than ever at imposing … Continue reading “The Growing Use of State Government Disclosure and Reporting Requirements for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Costs”
VIRTUAL FORMAT Blackstone quite famously explained that “[I]t is a general and indisputable rule, that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy, by suit or action at law, whenever that right is invaded.” 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 23, 109 (Univ. of Chicago Press 2002) (1765). Of … Continue reading “Symposium on the Economics and Law of Civil Remedies: Developments in Damages and Nationwide Injunctions”
Content moderation decisions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election—including the removal of President Trump from Twitter and Facebook—have brought into sharp relief the power that social media platforms wield in shaping the national discourse. These social media platforms have come under increasing fire from both the left and the right and have been … Continue reading “The First Amendment, Section 230, and Content Moderation (Webinar)”
Increasingly, state and federal courts are being asked to adjudicate public nuisance, fraud, and other state tort claims designed to create liability for actions alleged to contribute to climate change. This webinar will discuss a critical decision in one such case. On April 1, 2021, in the case of City of New York v. Chevron … Continue reading “Climate Change, Torts, State Law, and Congress: A Discussion on the April 1, 2021 Second Circuit Decision in City of New York v. Chevron Corp.”
The pervasiveness and broad sweep of NEPA and other federal (and state) permitting requirements have long been the subject of criticism by commercial developers and even average property owners engaged in small-scale development projects. They claim that the costs in time, money, and other resources that permitting schemes’ procedural and substantive restrictions impose unreasonable and … Continue reading “Do NEPA and Other Permitting Requirements Doom Green Energy and Infrastructure Plans?”
Our panel of experts, each with deep experience litigating before the US Supreme Court, will provide analysis on some of the most important decisions released by the Court across its past term. The panelists will particularly focus on those cases decided by the Court that are most relevant for the future of civil justice, those … Continue reading “Civil Justice Review of the Supreme Court’s 2020-2021 Term”
This webinar will explore civil justice issues in the US Supreme Court’s October Term 2021. With the Court starting to hear cases for the upcoming year on October 4, the LEC is convening a balanced panel of experts to preview some of the most interesting and potentially consequential cases for the coming year. In particular, … Continue reading “Civil Justice Preview of the Supreme Court’s 2021-2022 Term”
