Litigation

Hackers Stage A Data Auction After Company Refuses To Pay Ransom

The starting price was $50,000, and on the block were some 22,000 files and three data bases stolen from a Canadian company that had balked….

Emerging Trends In Covid-Related Litigation And Insurance Coverage

Months into the Covid-19 pandemic, patterns of litigation have emerged in five distinct categories of litigation….

Businesses Posting Covid Disclaimers

Enter at your own risk: From hair salons to stock exchanges to racetracks, more and more U.S. businesses are posting […]

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Bar Association Membership Requirement

The Justices of the Supreme Court didn’t add any new cases to their merits docket for the fall. They failed […]

How To Pay A Ransom

You have decided your best option under the circumstances is to pay up. But that decision is far from the last…

Conservatives Ask Supreme Court to End Qualified Immunity for Cops

Reason.com occasionally gets it right, although their contributors have an annoying habit of reducing everything to dollars and cents (recently […]

Higher Ed Wants Liability Protection

Many colleges and universities expect they will reopen in the fall with person-to-person classes. When they do, they could face […]

Avoiding The Snare Of “Green Crime”

The prevalence of environmental malfeasance, labeled “green crime” in this post from a compliance consultant, is said to have reached […]

Privilege Upheld For In-House Investigation, Despite Previous “Summary” Release

The senior in-house counsel of a major defense contractor seemed to have covered the bases when it came to insuring […]

Employers Soon To Be Immunized Against Covid-19 Lawsuits

Buzzfeed reports that workers and customers of newly reopened businesses are unlikely to be able to sue if they are […]

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