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Future amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure may make it easier to use remote witness testimony in federal civil trials. The Advisory Committee in charge of proposing Civil Rules amendments recently signaled that...more
The landscape of wage enforcement in California has fundamentally changed with the enactment of Senate Bill 261 (SB 261), a law designed to eliminate the otherwise questionable strategy of ignoring wage judgments. ...more
In a trio of rulings on Nov. 6, 2025, the Federal Circuit delivered a clear message: discretionary denial of Inter Partes Review (IPR) petitions is unreviewable on appeal. The court will not interfere with the U.S. Patent and...more
When discussing complex employment issues, an employer would be wise to take steps to ensure that communication is protected from disclosure and remains confidential, preventing it from becoming discoverable in future...more
On October 6, 2025, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in Syngenta Crop, LLC v. Nemeth, passing on an opportunity to clarify its prior decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern and address whether Pennsylvania’s...more
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In February 2025, we wrote about the new Texas Business Court and factors to consider in determining whether to file your next construction suit in Texas’ new court. Since then, the Texas Legislature has expanded the Texas...more
In a recent Tennessee Court of Appeals decision, Nowaczyk v. Daniels Construction (Nov. 4, 2025), a contractor tried to disqualify the trial judge because the judge happened to live in the same neighborhood as a potential...more
On August 4, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Metropolitan Commercial Bank’s motion to dismiss a complaint by the plan administrator for the Voyager Wind-Down Debtor for failure to...more
The American Cyanamid test remains the standard test in Jersey for interim injunctions. However, a more exacting 'Cyanamid Plus' test may be applied in exceptional cases, particularly where the interim relief would...more
In Summer 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a strongly worded decision in In Re: FirstEnergy Corporation (No. 24-3654)—confirming the core concept that internal investigations conducted by counsel...more
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has announced that Lyft has paid off the $19.4 million it owed to the state for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors....more
