Computer Associates International, Inc. v. American Fundware, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing offers of compromise that are inadmissible at trial under Rule 408 are still discoverable if they might lead to other admissible evidence
• recogriizing that Noerr-Pennington immunity is a aconstitutional, not an antirust, doctrine, and criticizing that Fla. Fern Growers Ass’n “ignored principles of federalism and t[ook] the questionable approach . . . [of] view[ing] this as an issue of state law.”
• Noerr-Pennington doctrine “bars litigation arising from injuries received as a consequence of First Amendment petitioning activity, regardless of the underlying cause of action asserted ... ”
• “Thus Professional Real Estate Investors and Claiborne Hardware [decisions] support the proposition that Noerr-Pennington immunity is a constitutional, not an antitrust, doctrine.”
• “[A]n award of attorney fees under the Colorado statute is contingent on there being no evidence at trial . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).