Securities Litigation

We've all done it: Read the docket description in the notice of electronic filing ("NEF") and have your paralegal download the order and add it to the pleadings file. But you have to read the order: The clerk's mis-description in an NEF could cost your client its appeal. Three of the four post-verdict JMOLs in the patent litigation were confidential, so were filed with motions for leave to seal them. The fourth JMOL wasn't. The first three NEF's read "Order granting motion for leave to file sealed documents" (referring only to the Doc. No. of the motion to seal). Then the court docketed ...