Today, we’re resuming our series on the antitrust law of transactions taking place on foreign soil. This post completes our review of the antitrust law of foreign transactions prior to the passage of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act. First, a ground rule that I should have clarified earlier – our purpose here is a
Today, let’s begin our section by section tour through the American Law Institute’s new Insurance Restatement.
Chapter 1, Section 1 of the Restatement includes definitions of common terms found in the law of liability insurance, including such commonplace concepts as a condition, the insuring clause, a mandatory (versus non-mandatory) rule, a policy limit and a
On Wednesday, May 8, I’ll be joining a pair of California Supreme Court experts for a panel discussion, “What to Expect from the Brown Court” at the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Conference Center, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor in San Francisco (the discussion will also be available through a webcast).
Justice Joshua P. Groban,
Today, we’re continuing the prologue of our tour through the law of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act, surveying the antitrust law of foreign-based transactions in the years leading up to enactment of the FTAIA. In our first installment, we reviewed the Supreme Court’s decision in American Banana Co. v. United Fruit Company, 213 U.S.
Two weeks ago, we announced a new biweekly series analyzing, section by section, the new Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance. Before we begin talking about specific sections, let’s review the response so far to the Restatement from courts and other authorities outside the ALI.
Pushback against the Restatement began even before final approval
Ever wonder how the Restatements of the Law which we all read in law school (and have seen in even some modest law libraries throughout our careers) are written – and exactly who the American Law Institute – the credited authority behind the Restatements – is? As a prelude to our new biweekly series of
Section One of the Sherman Act is written in simple, straightforward language: “Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.”
Okay, maybe a little too simple, since, as the courts quickly realized,
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Tuesday, March 12, I’ll be a panelist for a Strafford webinar on Data Analytics and Litigation. The other two panelists are Steve Embry, publisher of Tech Crossroads (and a former colleague of mine many years ago) and Evan Moses, a partner at Ogletree Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart. The time is 10:00 – 11:30 Pacific.
