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 | Donald Falk Comments on Proposed Merger of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio
21 February 2007 -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorney Donald Falk is quoted in today's San Francisco Chronicle commenting on the proposed merger of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio. Addressing the market definition issues in the case, Falk, an acknowledged antitrust expert, notes that satellite radio appears to compete with many sources of mobile audio content available to consumers. Read >>
| |  | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Appellate Group Scores Two Major Supreme Court Wins for U.S. Business in Single Day
20 February 2007 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorneys represented the prevailing sides in two major U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued today. The decisions, both of which are favorable to the American business community, involved punitive damages and antitrust issues. Read >>
| | | Stephen Shapiro comments on major antitrust case that he will argue in the Supreme Court
5 February 2007 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorney Stephen Shapiro, who will argue Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd. v. Billing, No. 05-1157, in the Supreme Court on March 27, 2007, is quoted in a National Law Journal article discussing the case, in which the Supreme Court will decide whether the SEC's pervasive regulation of securities markets preempts private antitrust claims arising from investment banks' underwriting of initial public offerings (IPOs). Read >>
| | | Andy Pincus comments on the impact of Supreme Court decisions on the business community
11 January, 2007 -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorney Andy Pincus is quoted several times in a recent article in the Financial Times on how Supreme Court cases affect the business community. In particular, Andy argues that a preference for narrow opinions can be costly to businesses, and that the Court should be more willing to grant business cases even in the absence of a circuit split. Read >>
| | | Evan Tager argues important dormant commerce clause case in the Supreme Court
8 January 2007 -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorney Evan Tager today argued United
Haulers Association v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, No. 05-1345, in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court will decide whether a requirement that all garbage generated in a county be disposed of in a county-owned disposal facility discriminates against interstate commerce in violation of the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. Read >>
| | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw files amicus brief in al-Marri v. Wright on behalf of former senior Justice Department officials, including former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno
15 December 2006 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorneys James Schroeder, Gary Isaac, and Heather Lewis filed an amicus brief in the Fourth Circuit in Al-Marri v. Wright on behalf of eight former Justice Department officials, including former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and Mayer, Brown senior counsel and former U.S. Deputy Solicitor General Philip Lacovara, advocating against the government's indefinite detention of terrorism suspects arrested and held in the United States. Read >>
| | | Steve Shapiro comments on the Supreme Court's dwindling docket
7 December, 2006 -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorney Steve Shapiro is
quoted repeatedly in a lengthy article by Linda Greenhouse in today's New York Times, which discusses the fact that the Supreme Court's docket continues to shrink Read >>
| |  | An Interview With Steve Shapiro: The Art of Appellate Advocacy
November 2006 - Appellate lawyers have never achieved the kind of celebrity accorded trial lawyers. Even John W. Davis, the preeminent appellate lawyer of his time, was known to the public through his political activities, not his extraordinary career in the Supreme Court, where he argued many landmark cases - the last of which was Brown v. Board of Education. Read >>
Published by The Journal of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, Volume 2. | | | Class Certification Reversed in Huge Securities Fraud Suit
5 December, 2006 - In a significant decision issued today, Miles v. Merrill Lynch & Co., No. 05-3349, the Second Circuit reversed class certification in
a multi-billion-dollar securities fraud suit challenging conduct of the Nation's leading underwriters in hundreds of initial public offerings.
Steve Shapiro and Tim Bishop of Mayer Brown's Chicago office represented defendant Merrill Lynch in the case and had a principal role in devising the underwriters' arguments and preparing their briefs in both the district court and court of appeals. Read >>
| | | Andy Pincus comments on the school desegregation cases
4 December 2006 -- The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in two important school desegregation cases today. In connection with those arguments, Andy Pincus, one of the team of lawyers who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in those cases (which is available here, has published an article in the Legal Times discussing the cases. Andy argues that the Court should view those cases through the lens of its school-desegregation precedents--beginning with Brown v. Board of Education--and should reject the plaintiffs' invitation to invalidate the school boards' desegregation plans. Read >>
| | | State High Court Condemns Arbitration Provisions That Don't Allow Class Actions
October 2006 - Congress enacted the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) eight decades ago to eliminate longstanding judicial hostility to the private resolution of disputes through arbitration. The United States Supreme Court has emphasized that the FAA embodies a strong federal policy favoring arbitration, and confirmed more than twenty years ago that the FAA preempts contrary state law. Read >>
| | | Federal Courts Reject Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses
October 2006 -- Businesses routinely include arbitration provisions in their standard consumer contracts, and require individual rather than class-wide arbitration in order to preserve the simplicity and efficiency of the arbitral process. Most courts enforce these class-arbitration waivers, guided by the strong pro-arbitration policy of the Federal Arbitration Act. Read >>
| | | Mayer Brown lawyers Andy Pincus & Charles Rothfeld to direct Supreme Court litigation clinic at Yale Law School.
18 July 2006, Washington, D.C. -- Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP lawyers Andy Pincus and Charles Rothfeld will be directing a Supreme Court litigation seminar and clinic at Yale Law School, while continuing to practice at Mayer Brown. The clinic will represent parties and amici in the Supreme Court on a pro bono basis. The clinic's website is available here. The Legal Times has also written about the clinic. Read >>
| | | Charles Rothfeld on the Supreme Court's 2005 Term
17 July 2006. Washington, D.C. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorney Charles Rothfeld today published an article in the Legal Times on the Supreme Court's recently concluded 2005 Term, entitled The Unsinkable Center - Given the chance to tilt, the Supreme Court maintains its delicate balance. Read >>
This article is reprinted with permission from Legal Times, July 17, 2006 | | | Andrew Frey named One of "Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America"
June 26, 2006, New York -- The National Law Journal has named Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partner Andrew Frey to its list of the "Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." Read >>
| | | Environmental Update - Fractured U.S. Supreme Court Reins In Army Corps of Engineers' Wetlands Program
22 June 2006 - The United States Supreme Court issued its decision June 19 in two closely-watched Clean Water Act cases, Rapanos v. United States (No. 04-1034) and Carabell v. United States Army Corps of Engineers (No. 04-1384). The decision placed some limits on the Army Corps of Engineers' authority to regulate "non-isolated" wetlands under the Clean Water Act (the "Act"). Read >>
| | | 134 Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Lawyers Listed in Chambers USA Guide to Leading Business Lawyers
One hundred thirty-four Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP lawyers are listed in the 2006 Chambers USA guide to leading business lawyers. The guide highlights the firm's work in several dozen practice areas throughout the U.S. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP senior counsel Philip Lacovara and partner Robert Baptista were also singled out in receiving prestigious "Chambers USA Awards for Excellence." Read >>
| | | Supreme Court to Review Punitive Damages Case
30 May 2006, Washington D.C. - The United States Supreme Court said today that it will hear a challenge to a $79.5 million punitive damages award against Philip Morris USA. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is counsel of record for Philip Morris in this case, in which the Court will examine the constitutional limits on awards of punitive damages. Read >>
| | | Moving Outside the Beltway
31 March 2006, New York - Fresh Hope is at hand for New York litigators and trial attorneys uncomfortable in the role of hard-charger-and who long for the days of high-minded, Socratic explorations deep into the belly of the legal beast. Read >>
(This article is reprinted with permission from the March 31, 2006 edition of the NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL. ¸ 2006 ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited. For information, contact American Lawyer Media, Reprint Department at 800-888-8300 x6111. #070-07-05-0028) | | | Illinois Appellate Court Rejects "Compatibility" Requirement For SUVs.
The First District of the Illinois Appellate Court, sitting in Chicago, has rejected the claim that the makers of sport utility vehicles, or SUVs, can be held liable for injuries to occupants of vehicles that collide with SUVs where those injuries are alleged to have been caused by the SUV's greater size and
weight. Read >>
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