Litigation
Recent Supreme Court decisions have improved the landscape for defendants seeking to fend off mass tort and consumer class actions.
Quentin Tarantino’s claim that the website Gawker has secondary liability for providing its readers a link to the director’s latest screenplay may hinge on a key word in Gawker’s story – “enjoy.”
An eco-terrorist who turned herself in after eluding authorities for nearly a decade has been handed a prison sentence – […]
A San Francisco firefighter claims discrimination led the department to attempt to saddle her with the blame for running over […]
Small patent-assertion firm Vringo scored a victory in court against Google this week that could be worth hundreds of millions. […]
Last week the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Federal Circuit, in Medtronic Inc.v. Mirowski Family Ventures LLC. That that may […]
An American venture capital firm finds itself a defendant in a $450 million lawsuit for backing a Vietnamese website that […]
In a subtle dig at one of last year’s most controversial Supreme Court decisions, President Barack Obama in his State […]
The SEC’s recent shift in policy away from “neither admit nor deny” will make settlements harder to come by. Defendants […]
The Business Court has socked an unduly persistent plaintiff with attorneys’ fees, because the judge concluded that “the losing party persisted in litigating the case after a point where he should reasonably become aware that the pleading he filed no longer contained a justiciable issue.”
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