Litigation
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.”
An appeals court reversed the method of calculating lawyer fees in a settlement alleging malfunctioning Toyota headlights, saying the district court incorrectly applied federal law instead of state law to determine the amount of recoverable attorneys’ fees.
All but a handful of class-action claims against PlayStation for its massive data breach were dismissed in a recent decision, because they failed to prove damages.
There is mounting concern that e-discovery has become the tail wagging the dog in too much of today’s litigation – […]
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