C. Douglas Floyd
Counsel

Mr. Floyd has worked on complex, multi-party and multi-forum litigation matters as both a practitioner and professor for over three decades with particular emphasis on antitrust, class action, multi-district and appellate litigation.

Mr. Floyd joined the Office of the Judge Advocate General, United States Navy in 1968 shortly after graduating from law school. In 1971, he was chosen as a law clerk for Warren E. Burger, then the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, during the 1970 and 1971 terms. Upon leaving the Supreme Court, he joined what was then known as Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco, where he worked with another former Supreme Court Law Clerk and Pillsbury partner, Francis R. Kirkham. (Mr. Floyd later would have the honor of becoming the Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law at Brigham Young University.)

Prior to rejoining the firm full-time, Mr. Floyd served as an Associate Professor (1980-1981), Professor (1981-2008), and Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law at Brigham Young University Law School where he taught courses on antitrust, complex litigation, federal courts and civil procedure.

An accomplished legal scholar, Mr. Floyd is currently collaborating on a new law school text book entitled “Complex Litigation” that is scheduled for completion in 2009, and a treatise entitled “Understanding Complex Litigation,” with a submission date in 2010.

• 2007 Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award, Bringham Young University (2007)
• Law School Teach of the Year, Bringham Young University (1980-1982; 1983-1985, 1993-1994, 1997-1998, 2000-2001, 2003-2006)

Member, American Law Institute; Order of the Coif

United States Supreme Court; United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Second, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits; and the United States Court of Military Appeals

Antitrust and Competition

• Yellow Pages Cost Consultant, Inc. v. GTE Directories Corp., 951 F.2d 1158 (9th Cir. 1991)
• Haagen-Dazs Co. v. Double Rainbow Gourmet Ice Creams, Inc., 920 F.2d 587 (9th Cir. 1990)
• In re Coordinated Pretrial Proceedings in Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation, 906 F.2d  432 (9th Cir. l990)
• United States v. Western Electric Co., 900 F.2d 283 (D.C. Cir. l990)
• In re Super Premium Ice Cream Distribution Litigation, 895 F.2d l4l7 (9th Cir. l990)
• R. C. Dick Geothermal Corporation v. Thermogenics, Inc., 890 F.2d 139 (9th Cir. 1989) (en banc)
• City of Long Beach v. Standard Oil Company of California, 872 F.2d 1401 (9th Cir. 1989)
• Digidyne Corporation v. Data General Corporation, 734 F.2d 1337 (9th Cir. 1984)
• Olson Farms, Inc. v. Safeway Stores, Incorporated, 649 F.2d 1370 (10th Cir.. 1979) (en banc)

Administrative Law

• Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Company of California, 449 U.S. 332 (1980)
• United States v. ITT Consumer Financial Corporation, 816 F.2d 487 (9th Cir. 1987)
• Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. United States, 658 F.2d 271 (5th Cir. 1981)
• Federal Trade Commission v. Anderson, 631 F.2d 741 (D.C. Cir. 1979)

Securities

• Chevron Corporation v. Pennzoil, 974 F.2d 1156 (9th Cir. 1992)
• Securities and Exchange Commission v. Koracorp Industries, Inc., 575 F.2d 692 (9th Cir.  1978)

Pensions

• United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 964 F.2d 180 (2d Cir. 1992)
• In re Masters Mates & Pilots Pension Plan and IRAP Litigation, 957 F.2d 1020 (2d Cir. 1992)
• Salazaar v. Sandia Corporation, 656 F.2d 578 (10th Cir. 1981)
• Producers Dairy Delivery Co., Inc. v. Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Fund,  654 F.2d 625 (9th Cir.. 1981)
• Souza v. Scalone, 563 F.2d 385 (9th Cir. 1977)

Environmental

• Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority v. EPA, 9l6 F.2d 3l7 (6th Cir. l990)
• Her Majesty the Queen v. Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority, 874 F.2d 332 (6th Cir.  1989)
• State of California v. Kleppe, 604 F.2d 1187 (9th Cir. 1979)

Employment and Labor

• Pallas v. Pacific Bell, 940 F.2d 1324 (9th Cir. 1991)
• Stikes v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc., 9l4 F.2d l265 (9th Cir. l990)

Tax

• Guy F. Atkinson Company of California v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 814 F.2d 1388  (9th Cir. 1987)

Patent

• Modine Manufacturing Co. v. The Allen Group, Inc., 9l7 F.2d 538 (Fed.Cir. l990)

Trade Secrets

• Chevron Chemical Company v. Costle, 641 F.2d 104 (3d Cir. 1981)

Bankruptcy

• In re Goerg, 930 F.2d 1563 (11th Cir. 1991)

Other Federal Issues

• Standard Alaska Production Co. v. Schaible, 874 F.2d 624 (9th Cir. 1989)
• Arnold v. Intern. Business Machines, 637 F.2d 1350 (9th Cir. 1980)
• Zylstra v. Safeway Stores, Inc., 578 F.2d 102 (5th Cir. 1978)
• Jacobson v. Bell Telephone Company of Nevada, 592 F.2d 515 (9th Cir. 1978)

Representative State Cases with Published Opinions

• Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n, 7 Cal.4th 1 (1994)(drug testing)
• Navistar Intern. Transp. Corp. v. State Bd. of Equalization, 8 Cal.4th 868 (1994)(tax)
• Christensen v. Superior Court, 54 Cal.3d 868 (1991)(torts)
• Seaman's Direct Buying Service v. Standard Oil Co. of California, Inc., 36 Cal.3d 752  (1984)(torts)
• People v. Minjares, 24 Cal.3d 410 (1979)(search and seizure)
• Alling v. Universal Mfg. Corp., 5 Cal. App. 4th 1412 (1992)(contracts and parole evidence)
• Pacific Bell v. California State and Consumer Services Agency, 225 Cal.App.3d l07 (l990)  (government contracts)
• The American Tobacco Co. v. Superior Court, 208 Cal.App.3d 480 (1989)(product liability)
• Anderson, et al. v. Pacific Bell, 204 Cal.App.3d 277 (1988)(employment)
• Boccardo v. Safeway Stores, Inc., 134 Cal.App.3d 1037 (1982) (preclusion)
• Stauffer Chemical Co. v. Air Resources Board, 128 Cal.App.3d 789 (1982)(administrative law)
• Bruno v. Superior Court, 127 Cal.App.3d 120 (1981) (class action)
• The Board of Education of The Palo Alto Unified School District v. Superior Court, 93 Cal.App.3d 578 (1979) (school law)
• Wilkinson v. Norcal Mutual Insurance Co., 98 Cal.App.3d 307 (1979)(administrative law)
• Cochran v. Board of Supervisors, 85 Cal.App.3d 75 (1978)(tax)
• Standard Oil Company v. Superior Court, 61 Cal.App.3d 852(1976)(class action)