Litigation

Around the web, October 16

By Ted Frank

• The importance of the Breusewitz v. Wyeth vaccine case. [Calfee @ American; Beck; SCOTUSblog]
• N.D. Illinois refuses to certify parasitic class action when defendant had already implemented recall and refund program. [Jackson]
• October 21 @ WLF: leading lawyers discuss health-care reform litigation. [WLF; lots of posts @ Volokh; Florida v. HHS]
• As always, the Federalist Society National Convention has some remarkable panels. [Federalist Society]
• Second Circuit approves the results of a feeing-frenzy internal dispute over allocation of aggregate multi-million fee award in Adelphia securities action. [10b-5 Daily; Victor v. Argent Classic Convertible Arbitrage Fund L.P.]
• Campaign spending by outside groups isn't giving Republicans any advantage. [Cato]

Full post as published by Point of Law on October 16, 2010 (boomark / email).