The First Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision yesterday, ruled that a lower court erred when it refused to allow Aetna to sue Pfizer over what it called a racketeering conspiracy to induce physicians to prescribe Neurontin for off-label uses like treating bipolar disorder.

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United States leaves in place a controversial en banc decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that drastically undermines the important work-product privilege on which corporate counsel have long relied when representing their clients.

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Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was the first appellate court to reach a decision on whether the Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to force private citizens to purchase healthcare insurance under penalty of federal law.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week in a case of first impression that if you are carrying electronics like computers, hard drives, smart phones, digital cameras, USB sticks or anything else that may contain questionable data when you enter the United States, it may be analyzed by Border Protection agents, either at the point of entry, or at a forensic lab off-site.

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The case went all the way to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York -- and Kieselstein-Cord won, becoming the first designer to win the right to copyright a functional object as art.

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