(United States Second Circuit) - Vacating the district court's determination that a carpenters union was entitled to summary judgment as to Sherman Act Antitrust charges, but affirmed summary judgment for them as to unfair labor practices charges in a case where the union used subcontracting to include ironworking in their activities because the union did not qualify for the non-statutory exemption to antitrust liability, but qualified for the construction industry proviso.

(United States Fourth Circuit) - Affirming the grant of summary judgment to a group of table saw manufacturers sued under antitrust laws because the acts upon which the complaint was based occurred prior to 2002, the claims expired in 2006, and the suit was not filed until 2014, refusing to apply the equitable doctrine of fraudulent concealment because the plaintiff was found to have had notice, at latest, by 2003.

(United States Federal Circuit) - Vacating a decision by the US Court of International Trade affirming a US Department of Commerce determination that certain imported oil country tubular goods (OCTG) fabricated as unfinished OCTG in China and finished in other countries were not subject to anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders covering OCTG imported from China because the Trade Court improperly proscribed the use of the substantial transformation analysis to determine the country of origin.

(United States Second Circuit) - Affirmed the dismissal of a liquor distributor's claim under the RICO statute against other liquor distributors. The New York metropolitan area's exclusive distributor for many leading brands of liquor brought this suit alleging that two of Maryland's largest liquor distributors were smuggling liquor into New York, cutting into its sales. The district court dismissed the case because the smuggling operation, as alleged, did not directly cause the plaintiff to lose sales, and therefore the plaintiff did not adequately allege proximate cause under RICO. Agreeing, the Second Circuit affirmed.

(California Court of Appeal) - Affirmed the denial of an anti-SLAPP motion, in a lawsuit accusing certain organizations and individuals of attempting to restrain trade and monopolize a city's medical marijuana market.

(United States DC Circuit) - Held that the federal government could not block a proposed merger between AT&T and Time Warner. The government had sued to enjoin the vertical merger on the basis that it would have anticompetitive effects. However, the D.C. Circuit agreed with the district court's conclusion that the government's evidence was insufficient, and affirmed the denial of a permanent injunction.

On April 24 Divided Community Project (DCP) Deputy Director Bill Froehlich and Steering Committee Chair Grande Lum joined HNMCP’s Neil McGaraghan and Kyle Strickland (from the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity) to record a webinar session for the ABA’s virtual conference. Bill shares a few reflections on the session which focus … Continue reading Reflections on Campus Collaboration and Virtual Tools →

What do you have to hide?  That’s an issue raised by two comments about my post, Communication, Privacy, and Community in the New Normal. One commenter asked, “What if the government or a private group knowing your real-time biometrics could save lives?  Why do we hold the privacy of such data in such high regard?” … Continue reading The Importance of Privacy →

In what seems like a decade ago (but was only early March), the ever talented Liz Tippett interviewed me for her brilliant Oregon Law Lab (in person!) about Trump’s Art of the Deal.  Spoiler alert:  We conclude that the book should best be read as a handbook for how to deal with lying…  Enjoy!

The Poetry Olympics Is A Brand-New Initiative Created To Encourage, Inspire And Empower Writers Of Every Style And On Every Level.

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LAS VEGAS — Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act’s famed white tigers, has died. He was 75. Horn died of complications from the coronavirus on Friday in a Las Vegas hospital, according to a statement […]

(United States First Circuit) - Affirmed a take-nothing judgment in an action alleging mainly that a law enforcement officer unconstitutionally used excessive force while executing a search warrant. The plaintiff challenged the exclusion of certain evidence. The First Circuit rejected her arguments because her grounds for attacking the challenged evidentiary rulings were not advanced below.

Which Names Spring To Mind When You Think Of Folk Rock Music? Jethro Tull, Perhaps?

Selected Route From Rochester To Brighton Scheduled For July, In Support Of Music Heals

Our sympathies to a grieving mother Re: “Appeal from an isolated, grieving mother,” May 1 letter to the editor

Distance runner Dathan Ritzenhein announced his retirement Thursday, closing a career during which he made three Olympic appearances and also was one of the first to question the methods being used by his coach, Alberto Salazar, who is serving a four-year doping suspension.

The Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021 on Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation that the games could not go ahead as scheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Tokyo Olympic organizers seem to be leaning away from starting the rescheduled games in the spring of 2021. More and more the signs point toward the summer of 2021.

Before the Olympics were postponed, Japan looked like it had coronavirus infections contained, even as they spread in neighboring countries. Now that the games have been pushed to next year, Tokyo’s cases are spiking, and the city's governor is requesting that people stay home, even hinting at a possible lockdown.

The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year's games.

About 6,500 athletes who already have earned their spots for the Tokyo Games are in for 2021 under redrawn qualifying regulations published Tuesday by the International Olympic Committee.

Hunkered down in Georgia, certain his tomato plants will reach for the sun as the invisible fog of coronavirus begins to recede, Edwin Moses feels blessed. Tilling the red clay of a vegetable garden, Moses is safe at home, a 64-year-old legend filled with gratitude for health as solid as Olympic gold. The greatest hurdler […]

As the coronavirus spreads in Japan, the chief executive of the Tokyo Games said Friday he can’t guarantee the postponed Olympics will be staged next year -- even with the long delay.

If the planet's biggest sporting event isn't immune to worldwide strife, why should we be shocked COVID-19 could also wipe out the NBA playoffs or the entire major-league baseball season in 2020?

Athletes completing doping bans over the next year will be eligible to compete in the postponed Tokyo Olympics, an unintended effect of the coronavirus pandemic that has some crying foul.

Metro district developers and home builders in Colorado are major campaign contributors to elected officials where they have developments. Developer Pat Hamill of Oakwood Homes is a major contributor, no more so than the Ebert Metropolitan District in Denver where his company is its developer.

Plus, Colorado Parks and Wildlife closed all of its campgrounds.

After extending the ban a few weeks at a time, state parks decided to just leave the ban up indefinitely.

Jennifer Page jokes that four months in, this decade is already the worst of her life.

The complaints began on Monday. There were too many people in the store, they said. Employees were not wearing masks or covering their face. Everyone was standing too close to one another.

Denver Post journalists joined colleagues from more than 40 news organizations across Colorado in a collaborative effort, COVID diaries Colorado: A day in the pandemic.

"The big questions of the day for the workers is, 'I don’t feel safe. Do I have to go back to work?'" a Colorado Department of Labor and Employment official said Monday. "And, as with everything with unemployment, it depends."

King Soopers this week began selling products from Impossible Food Inc., the company known for its plant-based based burger patties that are on the menus of Burger King restaurants across the country.

As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. People are also noticing animals in places and at times they don’t usually. When people stay home, Earth becomes cleaner and wilder.

Detlev Helmig most recently attracted attention for a paper that stated emissions from oil and gas production on the Front Range are largely underestimated.

U.S. withdrawal from the international agreement to combat global warming, along with rule rollbacks, have slowed momentum that once inspired emulators abroad.

Nearly 3.2 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the business shutdowns caused by the viral outbreak deepened the worst U.S. economic catastrophe in decades.

King Soopers this week began selling products from Impossible Food Inc., the company known for its plant-based based burger patties that are on the menus of Burger King restaurants across the country.

Married couple Tammy and Ann Day said they got sick with symptoms of the novel coronavirus on March 27.

So far, state labor officials have opened investigations into 150 instances of workers being called back to their workplaces or being offered new jobs and refusing, choosing instead to continue requesting unemployment benefits because of coronavirus-related concerns.

The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record. The figures are stark evidence of the damage the coronavirus has done to a now-shattered economy.

Potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation has spread from continent to continent like the pandemic itself, forcing the world’s largest tech companies to take unprecedented action to protect public health.

Denver Public Schools' summer classes will be held remotely, and all DPS summer camps are canceled, the school district announced Monday.

The groundbreaking celebration will have to wait, but construction is starting on the first of three buildings that will make up Colorado State University's complex at the National Western Center in Denver.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Wednesday forcefully pushed back on new federal campus sexual assault rules which would bolster the rights of the accused, promising to fight the U.S. Department of Education in court.

Highs in the Mile High City are expected to hit 61 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder. 

President Donald Trump signed a $484 billion bill Friday to aid employers and hospitals under stress from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 50,000 Americans and devastated broad swaths of the economy.

Colorado emergency officials and King Soopers pharmacy and nursing crews will offer free COVID-19 drive-thru testing for about 500 people on the Auraria campus in Denver this week.

The cast of The Game is back on The Mo'Nique Show.