When the maker of Camel cigarettes ran an ad in Rolling Stone, the campaign came under fire from anti-smoking advocates who said the ads targeted children. The ads also caught the eye of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office, which filed a motion to enforce a consent decree against R.J
An Oklahoma jury has found the maker of Botox negligent and awarded $15 million to a doctor who says she suffered botulism after using the anti-wrinkle drug.
A federal judge has thrown out a trade dress suit that the manufacturer of Dixie Cups filed against Huhtamaki Americas, the maker of Chinet, over the design of an insulated paper cup. U.S. District Judge Timothy C.
The 4th Circuit has given new life to a public records suit that seeks to shed light on the Justice Department’s once-secret support for Research in Motion Ltd. in a high-profile patent case that settled in 2006. Hunton & Williams filed the suit in Virginia to dig up documents in the underlying patent dispute, in which the DOJ in 2005 secretly aligned itself with RIM, the maker of BlackBerrys
A lawyer was arrested Monday for entering a Georgia courthouse with a loaded .40-caliber handgun in his briefcase, according to a court administrator. Rodd C. Walton of the Walton Law Group in Atlanta was taken into custody on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a weapon into a public gathering.