On July 12, 2023, the Appellate Division, Second Department, in U.S. Bank Trust, N.A. v. Rahman, addressed an issue that has been confusing lawyers for quite some time involving 22 N.Y.C.R.R. §202.48 – “Submission of orders,...more
The Trademark Trial & Appeal Board (Board) addressed, for the first time, whether the deletion of goods and services as a result of a post-registration audit during a cancellation proceeding triggers Trademark Rule 2.134 and...more
The EIR for a bottling plant in Siskiyou County withstood challenges to the project description and impacts analysis, but the EIR’s stated project objectives were unreasonably narrow and the County should have recirculated...more
In almost every situation, a party would prefer to defend a favorable judgment on appeal rather than fight to reverse a negative judgment. And when we are forced to be the appellant, we want the error in the challenged...more
Volatility, geopolitical instability, trade wars and inverted yield curve were terms that peppered the financial news in 2018. Notwithstanding the uncertainties surrounding these developments, in December, the Federal...more
With the rise of the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements, sexual harassment in the work place, whether in the public or private sector, has been thrust into the spotlight. With these ongoing movements, sexual harassment claims and...more
Patent Judgments and Awards - On August 4, 2017, after five-and-a-half years of litigation over patent infringement, a Federal Claims judge ordered the United States (“the Government”) to pay Advanced Aerospace...more
On April 26, 2015, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida declined to stay a pending False Claims Act (FCA) case due to the defendants’ filing of bankruptcy....more
Is the pick-off strategy to moot class actions still alive in the Southern District of New York? Possibly. Last month we reported on Brady v. Basic Research, L.L.C. – the first decision to interpret the Supreme Court’s...more