Litigation
Patent assertion firm VirnetX may be on the cusp of winning a major lawsuit – worth as much as $340 […]
The SEC has signaled that it intends to intensify its scrutiny of public company financial reporting. One of the tools […]
The FCPA prohibits bribery of foreign officials, broadly defined, but how broadly? The law says foreign officials include…
Seven years after the Supreme Court injected a “plausibility” standard in Twombly, that ruling has started to reshape the standard for pleading several other non-conspiracy elements of antitrust claims. As a collection of recent federal cases show, standards have begun to emerge for what it means to plausibly allege other, non-conspiracy elements of a federal antitrust claim.
Texas’ Supreme Court in a recent opinion found sufficient basis under the FAA to vacate an arbitration award, finding an arbitrator had shown “evident partiality” due to misleading “partial” disclosures of his contacts with the law firm representing the claimant.
As the plaintiff learned in a recent patent case, “all things are presumed against a spoliator,” and the failure to resolve any discrepancies can trigger heightened scrutiny during discovery.
Lawyers for the Silicon Valley-based group Students Matter cleared a major hurdle in overturning what they deemed the “status quo” […]
A three-judge Second Circuit panel reversed and remanded Judge Jed S. Rakoff’s order rejecting a settlement between the SEC and […]
A report on General Motors vehicles with faulty ignition switches detailed how, over more than a decade, numerous lawyers with […]
After announcing through his attorney last week that he would not fight the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers, embattled […]
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