Litigation
Steven M. Richard and Britt Killian, writing on the Nixon Peabody website, discuss the legalities of serving legal process on […]
Earlier this year the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that a company could write bylaws that would require shareholder plaintiffs to […]
Writing in their firm’s blog “California Peculiarities,” Seyfarth Shaw attorneys Nick Geannacopulos and Emily Barker look at what could be […]
Patent cases and multidistrict litigation were two primary contributors to the federal district courts with the heaviest caseloads from June […]
This case may signal a potential new area of liability exposure for directors and officers, but the opinion is also a reminder of just how difficult it is for plaintiffs to survive the initial pleading hurdles…
Twisting the debate over the Supreme Court’s ban on allowing cameras to record oral arguments, HBO’s John Oliver offered an […]
Neglecting to show up with evidence to support the burden of proof can be fatal to a case, as a recent suit shows. The judge in UnitedHealth Group Inc. v Columbia Casualty Co. said a party cannot survive a motion of summary based on “vague descriptions of the evidence it intends to introduce at trial.”
When a part-owner of an anesthesiology practice was fired, she sued under the ADA, claiming she was dismissed because of a disability. But since she was part owner, and not an employee, an appeals court denied her claims, found the suit frivolous, and granted the defendant attorney’s fees.
The Court decided this week that it will take up a case to determine whether police may enter hotel or […]
The collective-corporate-client exception to attorney-client privilege was shot down by Nevada’s top court, in a ruling that found a fired […]
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