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Marshall Dennehey

Including Settled Defendants on a Verdict Sheet: A Reminder that No Assumptions Are Allowed

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Key Points: Pennsylvania’s Fair Share Act permits the inclusion of a defendant or other non-party who has entered into a release with a plaintiff to be included on the verdict sheet and, thus, subject to apportionment of...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Discovery Immunity For Draft Expert Reports Lacks Clarity

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To borrow from a popular travel destination slogan, what happens in mediation stays in mediation. Or does it? The answer currently is maybe, as a Delaware bankruptcy judge presiding over the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case,...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Lessons From The ‘First Wave’ Of COVID-19 Personal Injury Claims

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When we read between the lines in the first wave of COVID-19 case filings, a few key lessons emerge. As the Wall Street Journal noted on July 30 in “Families File First Wave of COVID-19 Lawsuits Against Companies Over Worker...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Dual-Purpose, Patent Analysis Documents Found Immune from Discovery under Work Product Doctrine

In Limestone Memory Systems LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc. et al., the Discovery Master ruled that, under 9th Circuit law, pre-suit, patent analysis documents qualified for immunity from discovery under the work product...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Discovery, Public Interest Immunity, and Privilege under Hong Kong Competition Law

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The Hong Kong Competition Tribunal has ruled for the first time on the extent of the Competition Commission’s discovery obligations in enforcement proceedings. The Speed Read - A recent Hong Kong Competition Tribunal...more

Brooks Pierce

Pitfalls in Managing Online Reputations

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Whether you represent sports stars and high-profile entertainers, or hometown doctors, architects, and restaurateurs, you have almost certainly gotten calls in the past several years asking for your help in dealing with...more

King & Spalding

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Clarify Post-Judgment Remedies Against Foreign Sovereigns

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On June 16, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions in Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd., one of the many cases to have arisen out of Argentina’s 2001 default on over $100 billion in sovereign bonds. While...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd.

On June 16, 2014, the United States Supreme Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not prevent a judgment creditor from conducting postjudgment discovery into a foreign sovereign's assets outside the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Supreme Court Holds that the FSIA Does Not Limit Post-Judgment Discovery

In its latest decision interpreting the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), the Supreme Court made clear that any claim of immunity by a foreign state must rise or fall based on the text of the FSIA. Because the FSIA...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Argentina's financial fate now depends on the U.S. Supreme Court

The Second Circuit has affirmed the injunctions against Argentina in NML Capital, Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina, a case that we have been following in this blog although the amended injunctions shall be stayed pending the...more

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