At a ceremony on Wednesday, The American Lawyer once again bestowed awards on the country's best litigation departments. It's been fascinating to see all the outstanding work done by the firms that have competed over the past decade, but I'm also left with another impression: Not much has changed.

Submitted: September 22, 2009Before MELLOY, BEAM, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.Thomas H. Holman, Jr. and Kim D.L. Holman (the "donors") created a limited partnership, funded it with common stock

Argued September 11, 2008JUSTICE MEDINA delivered the Court's judgment and an opinion, in which JUSTICE HECHT joined, and in which JUSTICE WAINWRIGHT, JUSTICE JOHNSON and JUSTICE WILLETT joined as

Published opinionBefore LINN, DYK, and PROST, Circuit Judges.Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge DYK. Opinion concurring in the result filed by Circuit Judge PROST.These two tax refu

PUBLISHEDArgued: May 14, 2010Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge Wilkinson wrote the opinion, in which Judge Niemeyer and Ju

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Argued March 19, 2009Reissued August 7, 2009Before: SENTELLE, Chief Judge, and ROGERS and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judges.Appellants seek review of a final determination of the Copyright Royalty Jud

Cochran, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which Price, Womack, Johnson and Holcomb, JJ., joined. Keller, P.J., Keasler and Hervey, JJ., concurred in the result. Price, J., filed a concurring