Matthew R. Salzwedel
Associate

Experience

Mr. Salzwedel is an associate and focuses his practice on complex commercial, antitrust, securities, and class action litigation. He has particular experience litigating cases under Articles 3 & 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as in defamation, media, technology, telecommunications, and federal and state privacy-law matters. Recently, as part of his antitrust litigation practice, he co-authored a brief amicus curiae in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League before the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Salzwedel is a 2001 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was elected Lead Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable G. Barry Anderson of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Representative Cases

• Czech v. Wall Street On Demand (D. Minn. 2009) — defeated motion to dismiss involving aggregation of damages under the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act.
• Nisenzon v. Morgan Stanley DW, Inc. (E.D. Pa. 2008) — successfully defended Morgan Stanley through two-day trial litigating issue of first impression under the U.C.C.
• Campbell-Bieber v. May (M.D. Pa. 2008) — obtained summary judgment and discovery sanctions for a non-profit animal-protection society being sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• Johnson v. Woodcock (D. Minn. 2005) — achieved dismissal of trademark lawsuit brought against a nationally recognized author arising out of the publication of a battery of psycho-educational tests.
• Davenport v. Farmers Ins. Group (8th Cir. 2004) — obtained reversal of district court decision dismissing lawsuit brought by class of insureds under the Minnesota Insurance Fair Information Reporting Act
• West Publishing Corporation v. Stanley (D. Minn. 2004) — obtained injunction for West Publishing in non-compete case.

Presentations

• Antitrust, Embroidery and the NFL: The Ramifications of Supreme Court Review of American Needle, 2010 Midwest Art, Entmt. & Sports Law Inst., Minnesota State Bar Ass’n CLE (May 7, 2010) (with Ryan W. Marth)
• The David Strom Show: The Case of the "Wise Latina" (or the Sotomayor hearings) (The Patriot AM 1280 radio broadcast July 18, 2009)
• The David Strom Show: Sotomayor & More (The Patriot AM 1280 radio broadcast May 31, 2009)
• On Disclosure, Address at the Drake Group Annual Meeting: Putting the College Back in College Sport!, San Antonio, Texas (Apr. 3, 2004)

Publications

• Plaintiffs’ Remedies, Int’l Handbook On Private Enforcement Of Competition Law, American Antitrust Institute (with W. Joseph Bruckner) (forthcoming fall 2010)
• The University: The Closed Society, The Dartmouth Law Journal (with Jon Ericson) (forthcoming summer 2010)
• The Incredible Shrinking Broker-Dealer: Applying the Uniform Commercial Code to Brokerage Firms Providing Commercial-Banking-Like Services on their Brokerage Accounts, 29 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report (Issue No.2, Feb. 2010) (with Matthew B. Johnson)
• Fleeger v. Wyeth - A Clarification, Minnesota Lawyer (Sept. 14, 2009) (with Yvonne M. Flaherty)
• National Arbitration Forum Settlement with Minnesota Attorney General, Issue Brief, Federalist Society State AG Tracker (Vol. 1, No. 4, 2009) (with Devona Wells)
• Toothless Tigers: Positive & Reverse-Positive Pay & The Illusion Of Customer-Loss Allocation for Check Fraud, 126 Banking Law Journal 130 (Feb. 2009).
• Lawmakers Are On The Student-Loan Warpath: Will Your College or University Be Ready When They Come Calling?, University Business, July 2007 (with Patrick J. Egan)
• Pursuing Paterno’s Pay is a "Hail Mary," 30 Pennsylvania Law Weekly 634, June 4, 2007
• Illegality of NSA Wiretapping Program Far From Clear, Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer, March 10, 2006
• Proving The Unprovable: Evaluating Disability Claims Based Upon Subjective Conditions, Minnesota State Bar Ass’n CLE (2005)
• "A Cloud of Condemnation": Expanding the Definition of a Compensable Taking Under the Minnesota Constitution, Federalist Society State Court Docket Watch, August 2004
• Cleaning Up Buckley: How the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Shields Academic Corruption in College Athletics, 2003 Wisconsin Law Review 1053 (with Jon Ericson)
• A Contractual Theory of Corporate Opportunity and a Proposed Statute, 23 Pace Law Review 83 (2002)

Civic Associations

Mr. Salzwedel is an active member of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and has served as an executive board member of the Philadelphia and Minneapolis Lawyers' Division chapters.

Matthew R. Salzwedel
Associate

mrsalzwedel@locklaw.com
612-596-4037
Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P.
Suite 2200
100 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-2159
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Practice Areas

• Business Litigation
• Antitrust Law

Education

University of Minnesota Law School, 2001, magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

2001, Minnesota; 2005, Pennsylvania; 2005, New Jersey

Court Admissions

Minnesota; Pennsylvania; New Jersey; United States Courts of Appeal for the Eighth, Third, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits; United States Tax Court; United States District Courts for the District of Minnesota, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and District of New Jersey.

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