Litigation
Many new top-level domains (TLDs), including .London, .guru and .sexy, have appeared on-line, and hundreds more have been applied for. […]
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the strict approach taken by many federal circuit courts to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) that requires a qui tam relator bringing a False Claims Act case to plead details of false claims that were actually submitted to the government in order to survive dismissal.
Operators of www.TheDirty.com could not be held liable for postings by third parties on the website, the Sixth Circuit ruled in a decision that reversed the Eastern District of Kentucky ruling, which had allowed the plaintiff’s claims to proceed, despite the website’s arguments that the claims were barred by the Communications Decency Act.
Hollywood guilds representing actors, directors and writers have filed amicus briefs, asking the Supreme Court to take up a copyright […]
Metadata, simply defined, is data about data, and what it reveals can have a telling effect in litigation, explains Tom […]
A UK court this week cleared former News of the World tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks on charges of phone hacking, […]
The Supreme Court’s decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, which denied patent eligibility to an abstract idea, revealed […]
Laws that protect whistleblowers don’t protect an employee who uses the threat of whistleblowing in an extortion ploy, a California […]
Monday’s Supreme Court decision in the Halliburton case raised the bar for securities class actions, according to an account by […]
A Dutch company that voluntarily disclosed years of egregious U.S. export control violations and then cooperated with government investigators garnered […]
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