Scribd.com: When the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks sold the team, he retained 5% ownership. A few years after selling the team, he filed multiple lawsuits accusing the new owner of mismanaging the team and even doing illegal things with the money. Yesterday the owner of the Dallas Mavericks fired back with probably the most succint motion for summary judgment we’ve ever seen.
Law.com: The Supreme Court on Monday handed a sweeping victory to Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer, in the company’s decade-long effort to thwart a discrimination class action filed on behalf of more than 1 million female current and former workers. The ruling is likely to hobble other large employment class actions as well.
ABA Journal: If litigation had more dramatic resolutions, fee-shifting litigation would be a lot easier, Justice Elena Kagan muses in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling today on attorney fee awards.
San Francisco Chronicle: “A female jail guard’s strip search of a male inmate was a ‘humiliating event’ that violated his rights, a divided federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday.”
The Volokh Conspiracy: “Here’s the opinion, handed down today, in Williams v. State. The court interprets Heller and McDonald as focused on home possession of guns, arguing that ‘it is clear that prohibition of firearms in the home was the gravamen of the certiorari questions in both Heller and McDonald and their answers. If the Supreme Court, in this dicta, meant its holding to extend beyond home possession, it will need to say so more plainly.’ I don’t think this analysis is right.”