Archives
September 12, 2011
Column
- Legal View: The twilight of false-marking suits against patent owners
- Taking Stock: Avoid TIPS, dump Yahoo and pick up Dominion
Feature
- Detroit lawyer authors chapter for appellate law practice guide
- Michigan attorney now earning his doctorate at the sports academy
- My Turn: Memories still vivid for survivor of attacks on 9/11
- Belafonte delivers lecture at Keith Center for Civil Rights
- Daily Briefs, September 12
- Legal People for September 12
Nation
Courts
- Washington, D.C. Congress sends patent overhaul bill to president Bill is first significant change in U.S. patent law since 1952
- Oklahoma Jury awards former auto dealership owner $65.4M for fraud New dealers began operating vehicle kiting scheme to get money from banks
State
Business
- Technology Twitter to show more ads, still biding time on IPO
- Pharmaceutical FDA advisers recommend approving anticlotting drug
- Real Estate Mortgage rates lowest in decades, but few qualify Record-low rates have done little to energize depressed home sales
- Of Mutual Interest Utilities funds deliver gains in declining market
headlines Detroit
- Michigan Law alumni receive Equal Justice Works Fellowships
- Dog bite: Attorney provides insight on what every Michigander should know
- Deployment of troops in Los Angeles is risky and unnecessary political stunt
- No new trials for school shooter’s parents despite violation by prosecutors, judge rules
- Daily Briefs
headlines National
- SCOTUS will consider whether Illinois congressman has standing to challenge ballot-counting law
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Goodwin Procter ends agreement with recruiter who called its diversity decisions ‘shameful’
- Boycotting law clerks to pressure schools might ‘cross an important line,’ 8th Circuit chief judge says
- Suspended lawyer charged with theft from client apparently shoots, wounds himself during arrest
- DOJ lawyer blames ‘confluence of administrative errors’ for another El Salvador deportation
