Litigation

Companies Pledge To Forego IP Rights For Covid Projects

Sixteen Japanese companies, including Toyota, Honda and Canon, as well as two major diagnostic firms that provide Covid-19 testing, have […]

State Courts Have Turned Into Bill Collectors

Over a period of about three decades, the way state courts are used has fundamentally changed. In 1990, they typically […]

9th Circuit Considers the Casting Couch

California’s Civil Code 51.9 was enacted decades ago to codify a woman’s right to work free from unwanted sexual advances, […]

A Warning To Companies About Breach Notification

It’s become common wisdom – gleaned in part from witnessing some disastrous missteps by companies like Yahoo and credit reporting […]

$150,000 Settlement for Junk Science, An Incompetent Investigation, and a Publicity Stunt,

In 2012, the Leawood, Kansas, home of a married couple (former CIA employees) and their two young children was raided […]

Assessing The Contractual Impacts of COVID-19

How are contract obligations affected in times of extreme uncertainty? This post looks first at the force majeure clause and how it might apply when contract non-performance is the result of supply chain…

Status Report: Pandemic-Related Class Actions In Four Areas

In the banking sector, small businesses and some individuals have claimed lenders are imposing their own criteria for processing PPP loans, in addition to those mandated by the CARES Act. The first of these targeted….