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Over Thirty Years After Its Passage, Governments Are Still Adjusting to the Effects of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights

Over Thirty Years after its Passage, Governments are Still Adjusting to the Effects of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights... Less than a month into the second regular session of the 75th General Assembly, discussion of...more

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Copyright Law in 2025

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Courts Begin to Draw Lines Around AI Training, Piracy, and Market Harm - In 2025, U.S. courts issued the first substantive, merits-stage decisions addressing whether the use of copyrighted works to train generative artificial...more

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New York Court Draws Limits to Encroachment on Sacred Rights in STG Logistics

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On January 3, 2026, the New York State Supreme Court delivered a win to a group of minority lenders to STG Logistics (“STG”), denying four motions to dismiss the minority lenders' lawsuit seeking to unwind or be awarded...more

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Uncertainty Continues in California on CIPA Section 638.51 Claims

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The wave of California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) Section 638.51 cases (i.e., pen register or trap-and-trace claims) against companies using web tracking technologies such as Meta and TikTok pixels shows no sign of...more

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A Trial Lawyer in the Jury Box: Observations on Persuasion and People

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They say lawyers never get picked for juries. I believed that—right up until I served 10 days as a juror in a civil trial involving aggravated sexual assault allegations and defamation counterclaims....more

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Court Backs Off Strict “Need-To-Know” Standard

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Many judicial decisions explain that intra-corporate disclosure of privileged communications can waive that protection if shared with corporate employees having no “need to know.” That warning almost always appears in the...more

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Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending February 6, 2026

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Our Patent Case Summaries provide a weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial...more

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Georgia Court of Appeals holds only material terms required to form a settlement agreement are those within statute

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A recent opinion from the Georgia Court of Appeals enforced a settlement agreement under the 2024 version of O.C.G.A. § 9-11-67.1. The underlying facts of this case arise out of a motor vehicle accident involving Abriel...more

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Allen v. Cooper (4th Cir. 2026)

Dickens’s Bleak House has long stood as an exemplar for the perils of interminable litigation where no one benefits (except, perhaps, the lawyers; see Jarndyce v. Jarndyce). In a case already somewhat notorious for its...more

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Is Finality Still Useful in False Claims Act Litigation?

All of us were treated recently to the latest statistics from the Department of Justice for 2025. By all accounts it was a record year for both the Department of Justice and relators, over $6.8 billion in total recoveries,...more

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California Courts Send Clear Message: AI Shortcuts Have Serious Consequences

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The unanimous decision in Kjoller v. Superior Court of Nevada County marks a turning point in how California courts will handle AI-generated hallucinations in legal filings. Combined with the recent passage of SB 574 by the...more

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Finding that Expert Testimony “Aligns” with the District Court’s Claim Construction, the Federal Circuit “Backs” Its Admissibility

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On January 20, 2026, the Federal Circuit (per Judge Stark and joined by Judge Taranto, with Judge Prost dissenting) reversed a decision from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, excluding two experts who testified for...more

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New York’s Consumer Litigation Funding Act: Will it Curb the Onslaught of Litigation Funding and Potential Lawyer Liability?

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Recently we have written about some of the pitfalls associated with litigation funding when it comes to attorney liability. Thereafter, we discussed how a New York appellate court, for the first time, affirmed the...more

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6 Key Takeaways - Ethics: Investigations Gone Wild

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Many companies routinely use private investigators or other covert techniques to review possible infringements, including to obtain evidence of infringement and unfair competition by competitors, and to gauge the scope and...more

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Business Court Update: North Carolina Courts Can Reach Out-of-State Executives  

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Last week, the North Carolina Business Court denied a motion to dismiss, stating that it could exercise personal jurisdiction over claims against an out-of-state executive when he sought personal benefit and threatened to...more

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Second Department Resolves CPLR § 205(a) Six-Month Grace Period

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In a recent decision, HSBC Bank USA, N.A. v. Hillaire, No. 2024-02731 (Jan. 28, 2026), New York’s Appellate Division, Second Department, addressed the date an action “terminates” for purposes of the six-month grace period on...more

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Protecting Overseas Suppliers From US Courts: Personal Jurisdiction, Market Selection, and Product Liability Risk

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The US market is both coveted and feared by overseas consumer‑product suppliers. Coveted for its scale and purchasing power, with fear that US product‑liability litigation inevitably follows sales....more

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English Court of Appeal Clarifies High Threshold for Withholding Disclosure on Grounds of Foreign Regulatory Confidentiality

In Various Claimants v Standard Chartered plc [2025] EWCA Civ 1581, the English Court of Appeal considered when a party is entitled to withhold disclosure on the basis that documents are subject to foreign regulatory...more

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Delaware Superior Court Addresses Continuous Representation Doctrine in Legal Malpractice Case—But Was It Really Applied?

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K. Dyton v. A. Ahern, 2025 WL 3232911 (Del. Super. Ct. Nov. 19, 2025), re-argument denied, 2025 WL 3496991 (Del. Super. Ct. Dec. 5, 2025) - In what the court stated was a matter of first impression, the Delaware Superior...more

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AI Review 2.0: Why Document-Driven Review Produces Better Results—and Puts You Back in Control

The argument for AI-powered document review is all but over. Large language models are smarter, faster, more consistent, and less expensive than human review teams. I made that case in an earlier article published by EDRM and...more

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In Patent Dispute, NJ Federal Court Declines to Clarify Standard for Striking Expert Theories

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When does an expert report merely clarify a previously disclosed theory, and when does it cross the line into providing an impermissible new one? In two January 2026 opinions in Jazz Pharmaceuticals v. Lupin, U.S....more

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Proposed Rule 45 Amendments Clarify Subpoena Power Over Distant Witnesses

February 16 is the end of the public comment period on recently proposed federal rule changes affecting remote testimony and remote depositions. The rules revisions would make clear that federal trial courts have authority to...more

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SCOTUS Affirms That Affidavits-of-Merit Not Required to Support Professional Malpractice Lawsuits in Federal Court

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More than half of the US states require the filing of an affidavit or a certificate of merit as a prerequisite to advancing a professional malpractice or liability claim. Failure to submit the required documentation may...more

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Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment for Lack of Causation Granted in Asbestos Case

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Court: United States District Court for the Central District of California - Plaintiffs filed suit against multiple Defendants, including Lockheed Martin Corporation, due to decedent Alice Faulk’s asbestos exposure,...more

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B.C. Court of Appeal Confirms Owner Payment Obligations After Notice of Subcontractor Lien

In Lonsdale Quay Market Corporation v. Klondike Contracting Corporation (Lonsdale Quay Market), the British Columbia Court of Appeal issued a clear caution to owners who receive notice that a subcontractor has filed a lien....more

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