Larry Ebner Joins DRI Center for Law and Public Policy Leadership Team

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I am honored to be joining the DRI Center for Law & Public Policy’s leadership team — Kathy Guilfoyle (Chair), Gardner Duvall and I (Co-Vice Chairs), Steve Puiszis (Immediate Past Chair), Toyja Kelley (DRI Immediate Past President & Officer Liaison), Jill Cranston Rice (Issues & Advocacy Committee Chair), Joseph Hanna (External Policy Allilance Committee Chair), …

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DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar in the U.S. Supreme Court

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Under the leadership and with the guidance of Executive Director John Kouris, DRI continues to be the voice of the civil defense bar in the Supreme Court of the United States. Congratulations to Matt Nelson and Zach Chaffee-McClure on becoming Chair and Vice of DRI’s Amicus Committee, which reviews the steady stream of requests that …

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Who is Suing Who, and Why?

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Early in law school, one of my esteemed (but perhaps grammatically challenged) professors explained that the key to understanding any case is figuring out “who is suing who, and why?” On January 15, the Justices very well may have been asking themselves that question during the Supreme Court’s hearing in Home Depot USA, Inc. v. Jackson, No. 17-1471. In …

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Supreme Court Will Review Unfair Class Action Tactic

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Class actions are big business for the plaintiffs bar. Lawyers have a better chance of  pocketing enormous, disproportionate, attorney fee awards if they can litigate, or force settlement of, consumer class actions in plaintiff-friendly state courts. Congress enacted the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) in 2005 to help curb state-court class action abuses. One of …

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DRI Files Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court To Review Class-Action Fairness Issue

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Class actions have become a lucrative business for the plaintiffs’ bar. National corporate defendants sometimes settle even frivolous claims for substantial amounts, especially in plaintiff-friendly state courts. To curb state-court class-action abuses, the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”) expressly authorizes “any defendant” to remove (i.e., transfer) a qualifying class action from state court to federal court, …

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DRI Center for Law & Public Policy Focuses on Civil Justice

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Through scholarship, legal expertise, and advocacy, the Center for Law and Public Policy acts as a think tank and public voice for DRI and its 22,000 members on issues of importance to the civil litigation defense bar. As Chair of the DRI Amicus Committee, I am privileged to be part of the Center’s leadership. We met at DRI …

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DRI Panel: Economics of Appellate Practice – Surviving, and Hopefully Thriving, as an Appellate Litigator

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On March 14 I had the privilege of moderating a lively and insightful panel on The Economics of Appellate Practice:  Surviving, and Hopefully Thriving, as an Appellate Litigator at the DRI Appellate Advocacy Seminar in Las Vegas. The three panelists – Wendy Cole Lascher, Partner at Ferguson Case Orr Patterson LLP, Ventura, California; Richard M. Wolff, Vice President-Complex …

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DRI Brief Urges Supreme Court To Enforce Antitrust Statute Of Limitations

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DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the certiorari petition in Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. v. Morgan-Larson, LLC, No. 17-441.  In its brief, DRI urges the Supreme Court to grant review and clarify the scope and application of the “continuing violation doctrine” insofar as it applies to …

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Update: DRI’s Supreme Court Amicus Program

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DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar files amicus briefs at both the certiorari and merits stages in cases raising legal issues that are exceptionally important to the civil defense bar and its clients.  I have the privilege of serving as Chair of the DRI Amicus Committee, which reviews requests for DRI amicus support.  The attached …

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DRI Amicus Brief Repudiates California’s Open Invitation To Forum Shoppers

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DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar has filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court to support a brand-name drug manufacturer’s challenge to a California Supreme Court ruling holding that nationwide marketing and distribution activities create enough of a “substantial connection” with California to enable that State’s courts to adjudicate out-of-state plaintiffs’ product liability claims.  The DRI brief, filed …

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