All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

Matthew MurphyManaging DirectorMMLC Group

The Regulation of Online Games in China

October 30, 2009

Analysis of:  The Regulation of Online Games in China | www.mmlcgroup.com

The online games industry in China is becoming incredibly profitable, with millions of regular users and an endless thirst for new games and technology. This article looks at the regulations and departments in China that are claiming authority to regulate this space. As expected there is considerable...

Justice o f the Peace and Social Engineering

October 21, 2009

Analysis by:GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:  Interracial Newlyweds Derailed in Dixie | blogs.wsj.com

The source article presents what many thought and hoped were a long past pattern of intolerance.The basic point is that a Louisiana justice of the peace places his personal policy regarding interracial marriage above the law of the land.

Justice and Responsibility

October 21, 2009

Analysis by:GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:  scaling back justice? | www.cbsnews.com

There is certainly a compelling argument contained within both Mr. Alpert's analysis and Mr. Olson original article. That is as a nation we must take more personal responsibility for our actions. We as attorney's should also have more responsibility to review and file claims that are not the result...

Martin AlpertVice President, Environmental ClaimsHINZ CLAIM MANAGEMENT INC

Jury Trial: Do Away with It?

October 20, 2009

Analysis of:  Scaling Back Justice? | /councils.glgroup.com/news/writeanalysis.mvc/write?articletitle=scaling%20back%20justice?&articleurl=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/18/sunday/main5394108.shtml

Does the US Civil Justice allow its doors to open too easily?

Martin AlpertVice President, Environmental ClaimsHINZ CLAIM MANAGEMENT INC

Electronic Evidence Discovery: All or Nothing?

October 19, 2009

Analysis of:  Pa. Court Weighs in on E-Discovery | www.law.com

Will EED allow unfettered access to records?

Credit Card Turmoil

October 16, 2009

Analysis by:GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:  Turmoil in Arbitration Empire Upends Credit-Card Disputes | online.wsj.com

The article paints a bleak picture for the future of dispute resolution, specifically arbitration in credit card debt issues. It further implies that there will be a flood of cases related to consumer credit card debt onto an already overloaded judicial system.However there are alternatives available...

Duncan MacDonaldConsultantDuncan McDonald

Loss of arbitration of cardholder disputes could sink card industry

October 15, 2009

Analysis of:  Turmoil in Arbitration Empire Upends Credit-Card Disputes | online.wsj.com

Although the article is about an investor's failed bet on arbitration of card disputes, the bigger fail will belong to the card industry -- the 1 billion bank and private label cards held by 200 million consumers. Issuers of those cards have all but lost the right require arbitration and the enormous...

The Sun Rises in the East, and Cigarette Makers Appeal

September 29, 2009

Analysis by:GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:  Cigarette Makers Will Appeal Racketeering Loss to Supreme Court | www.bloomberg.com

A win in the U.S. Supreme Court would bring at least temporary relief to cigarette makers.  But the odds are against the Court taking the case, and even if Philip Morris did win in Court, the FDA might use its newly expanded powers to regulate them anyway.

Duncan MacDonaldConsultantDuncan McDonald

Bankcard industry lobbies Congress to leave interchange fees alone

September 22, 2009

Analysis of:  Lafferty Group - Interchange battle rages on | www.lafferty.com

The primary story here is not the card industry's standard defense of bankcard interchange fees. It is that Visa and industry trade associations are responding to the clear and present danger that an angry Congress is going to side with merchants by enacting a law to limit interchange fees. Their defense...

Martin AlpertVice President, Environmental ClaimsHINZ CLAIM MANAGEMENT INC

Shareholder Class-Action Suits:Do they address the real problem?

September 21, 2009

Analysis of:  Looking at the Logic Behind Shareholder Class-Action Suits | blogs.wsj.com

Do Shareholder Class-Action Suits fix the problem?

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