Browning Marean, senior counsel at DLA Piper, speaks to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about the challenges of fashioning responses to discovery requests that are appropriate -- and proportional -- to a case.
In the first federal lawsuit over Google's recently announced privacy changes, the Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that Google's plans to streamline privacy settings for 60 different services and products beginning March 1 would violate a consent order the search giant reached with the FTC last fall. EPIC, based in Washington, D.C., wants the court to stop Google from implementing the new policy.
The Supreme Court's argument calendar for April, the final argument cycle of the term, lists only six hours' worth of argument instead of the usual 12 cases. It's an unusual move likely aimed at giving the justices more time to write their opinions on the Affordable Care Act challenges and other cases.
The 9th Circuit has revived a suit by a Stanford Ph.D. student who claims she was mistakenly put on the federal "no-fly" list and banned from returning to California after attending a conference in her home country of Malaysia. A lower court judge had ruled that the woman lost her right to sue when she voluntarily left the United States.
Don't like your law school grade? Then sue. Two former students at Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law have done just that, claiming that their Contracts II professor gave them unfairly low grades that resulted in their dismissal from the program.
