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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines September 30, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, September 30, 2009.

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Sears agrees to multimillion-dollar settlement with EEOC over disabled workers 

"The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced a record $6.2 million Americans with Disabilities Act settlement of a nationwide class action against Sears, Roebuck & Co. over the firing of disabled workers. The agency described it as the largest ADA settlement in a single EEOC lawsuit."

 

1st Circuit reverses ruling against plaintiffs in drug pricing litigation ? and asks for explanation

"On Sept. 28, the court vacated and remanded a District of Massachusetts summary judgment for Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary in In re Pharmaceutical Industry Average Wholesale Price Litigation, Shepley v. Johnson & Johnson. Five days earlier, the court affirmed a June 2007 $13 million judgment for third-party payors against AstraZeneca."

 

James Joyce estate agrees to pay plaintiff's fees in fair use dispute

"The estate of author James Joyce has agreed to pay $240,000 in legal costs incurred by a Stanford University scholar following a fair use legal battle over a book about Joyce's daughter".

 

Christian Legal Society to bring nondiscrimination policy case to Supreme Court

"The Christian Legal Society's chapter at the University of California Hastings College of Law is challenging a lower appellate court ruling that the law school's open membership rule prohibiting registered students groups from discriminating on the basis of religion or sexual orientation is 'viewpoint neutral and reasonable.' "

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