It's not clear how effective the lawsuit will be or if a judge will allow it to move forward.
Legal experts question how effective the lawsuit filed by Alibaba will be, given the sheer amount of counterfeits sold on the Taobao platform.
Audible Magic's audio filtering is said to be remarkably effective – post-lawsuit implementation at P2P network iMesh, for example is reportedly free of false positives.
As a result, some patients may have died earlier than they would have if they had taken more effective drugs, a lawsuit brought by a former Genentech employee and joined by federal prosecutors alleges.
"KDHE implemented the licensing provisions of the act in ways that made it impossible for existing medical practices to obtain a license by the effective date," the lawsuit charges.
As illegal downloading has become ingrained as a cultural habit, especially among young people, expensive litigation has become less effective, and the lawsuits against individuals were something of a public relations disaster for the music companies.
There is no question that performance appraisals and the actions they lead to often result in discrimination lawsuits, effective employees resigning or employee dissatisfaction, and they do require an enormous investment of time and energy in executing the process.
It is certainly true, for instance, that treating people with respect and acknowledging responsibility is both the decent thing to do and a surprisingly effective way to avoid lawsuits.
Routine document destruction of this kind can be effective in defeating civil lawsuits since plaintiffs lawyers must plead fraud against accounting firms "with particularity," which is very difficult to do without access to the accountants' work papers or to underlying documents which may be long gone by the time a civil suit reaches its discovery phase.
Although the White House and Obama administration have tried to put a spotlight on excessive fines and fees, organizations like ArchCity Defenders and Equal Justice Under Law have been effective in using federal lawsuits to force change.
