Jones v. Halliburton: Sexual Assault Falls Outside Arbitration Clause

On 17 September 2009, in Fifth Circuit, by Peter Smythe

In one of those public rela­tions night­mare cases, the Fifth Cir­cuit Court of Appeals ruled that at least some of Jamie Leigh Jones’s claims against Halli­bur­ton for an alle­ged gang rape will head to open court ins­tead of the sec­ret world of arbi­tra­tion. Jones sig­ned on to be a cle­ri­cal wor­ker in Bag­dad for one […]

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The Good Enough Revolution and Lawyering

On 8 September 2009, in Law Practice, by Peter Smythe

In a recent Wired maga­zine article entit­led, The Good Enough Revo­lu­tion: When Cheap and Sim­ple is Just Fine, Robert Capps lays out the case of a sea change in the way that con­su­mers are see­king pro­ducts and ser­vi­ces. He wri­tes that “what con­su­mers want from the pro­ducts and ser­vi­ces they buy is fun­da­men­tally chan­ging” because […]

 

Comprehensive Drug Testing (CDT): Kozinski’s Electronic Record Zinger

On 4 September 2009, in White Collar Crimes, by Peter Smythe

Alex Kozinski, the chief judge of the Uni­ted Sta­tes Court of Appeals for the Ninth Cir­cuit, has writ­ten an en banc opi­nion in Uni­ted Sta­tes v. Com­prehen­sive Drug Tes­ting, Inc. that is sure to light the fire of the search-​and-​seizure sup­pres­sion world for the next hun­dred years or so. At issue was what pro­ce­du­res and […]

 
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