| Name |
Counsel
of Record |
Certiorari To |
DN |
Summary |
Status |
| Met-Life v. Hawkins-Dean | Lee Patterson Winston & Strawn |
CA9 |
05-1424 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in reviewing de novo a benefit decision by an administrator of an ERISA-regulated plan that grants the administrator discretion in making benefit decisions. |
GVR |
| McGladrey
& Pullen v. NC
State Board of CPA Examiners |
Carter Philips Sidley Austin |
Sup. Ct. of
N.C. |
06-197 |
Whether a court reviewing a state
professional
regulatory board's decision that prohibits allegedly misleading
commercial
speech should review the record de novo
to determine whether the speech is misleading and the prohibition
constitutional.
|
Denied |
| Perdue v. |
Luther Munford Phelps Dunbar |
CA2 |
06-213 |
Whether, when deciding if part of a literary work is "substantially similar" to protected expression in a previously copyrighted literary work, a court should look to the two works alone or also consider expert affidavits. Note: this is the feature case in this week's edition of "Conference Call." |
Denied |
| Brown v. |
David Bederman Private Counsel |
06-332 |
Whether McMillian v. Monroe County should be construed as raising a presumption that states exercise effective control over such autonomous officials as county sheriffs in order to categorize them as "arms of the State" for purposes of determining liability under 42 U.S.C. 1983. |
Denied |
|
| Qwest v. |
David
Boyd Boies, Schiller, & Flexner |
CA10 |
06-343 |
Whether production of privileged documents to federal law enforcement authorities in the course of federal investigations and pursuant to written confidentiality agreements waives the attorney-client privilege and the protections afforded to attorney work product with respect to private litigants in separate proceedings. |
Denied |