Litigation

The Essential Jargon Of Disability Law

Several phrases have become terms of art in disability discrimination law, and employers who don’t understand them risk failing to […]

Double Time For Defendant Who Laughed During Sentencing

A panel of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges has upheld the two-year sentence handed down on felon Ramon Ochoa, […]

Supreme Court is Major Election Issue

Barring unforeseen events, as of July 2016, three sitting Supreme Court Justices will be 80 years old, or older. As […]

Trump Hotel Cyber Suit Is A Cautionary Tale

Trump International Hotels recently became the latest target of a major data breach class action lawsuit, joining – among others […]

The Call-Blocking Conundrum And Tomorrow’s Class Actions

An FCC order earlier this year, regarding the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, could have some unintended consequences. What the FCC […]

Cosby Switches Lawyers

Alleged serial rapist Bill Cosby has replaced Martin D. Singer, an attorney noted for representing celebrities, in two civil suits […]

Crying Not Protected Communication, Court Rules

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has found that crying is not considered protected as confidential communication between spouses. In […]

Death Penalty Ban “Wouldn’t Surprise” Scalia

After the Supreme Court took steps to restrict the application of the death penalty in recent years, Justice Antonin Scalia […]

This Bud’s Not For You, Says TTAB To Vintner

An Australian company lost its bid for the trademark WINEBUD, after being opposed by Anheuser-Busch, which successfully argued there was […]

Yale Wins Rights To Van Gogh Painting

Yale University may keep a painting by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh after a U.S. appeals court upheld a lower […]

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