Litigation

Companies Must Revisit High-Earner Compensation After the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Helix Energy

Companies that pay high-earning workers a day rate without overtime must exercise caution following the Supreme Court’s February decision in […]

Exceptional Cases Under § 285 Could Generate Higher Attorney Fees in Patent Litigation

Patent assertion entities (”PAEs”: companies that buy patents to enforce them for money) can commonly use “the cost of litigation” […]

Fifth Circuit Opens Ethics Probe As Bankruptcy Judge Resigns

Courthouse News reports that U.S. Judge David R. Jones has resigned effective Nov. 15, from the bankruptcy court for the […]

Mandatory Arbitration and Class Action Waiver Questions Unresolved

The enforceability of class action waivers and mandatory arbitration agreements for fiduciary breach claims in ERISA plans won’t be clarified […]

Journalist Jim Trotter Sues NFL For Discrimination

Ex-NFL Network journalist, Jim Trotter, has filed a complaint in federal district court, New York, claiming that he was subjected […]

Proposed Rule On Mass Torts Doesn’t Please Defense Attorneys

After prolonged debate, the U.S. Judiciary Conference’s Advisory Committee on Civil Rules issued a proposed rule last March that would […]

Data Compiler Sued For ‘Anti-Competitive’ Information Exchange

Citing the Sherman Act, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against data compiler Agri Stats Inc., […]

Health Data Clearinghouse Settles Multi-State Litigation

Multi-state litigation over a data breach that happened in January 2019 but wasn’t reported for three months, and then in […]

Circuits, Supreme Court Justices, Split On Extraterritorial Reach

On October 10 the U.S. Supreme Court denied cert in Elbaz v. United States. The order preserves a decision of […]

$49.5 Million Settlement For Blackbaud Data Breach

Blackbaud has settled another case related to a May 2020 ransomware attack and resulting data breach, as reported by Bleeping […]

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