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Insured’s Motion to Stay Coverage Action Denied Where Duty to Defend is Based on Allegations Against Insured

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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, applying Illinois law, denied an insured’s motion to stay an insurer’s declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration that it owed no duty to defend. Landmark...more

Freeman Mathis & Gary

Appellate Practice: The right-for-any-reason rule

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As a general rule, the scope of appellate review is limited to issues that were raised by the parties and ruled on by the trial court. As a result, appellate courts often refuse to rule on issues that are raised for the first...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Out-of-State Attorneys Have Room to Argue their Work for North Carolina Residents Does Not Create “Minimum Contacts”

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Drue Moore was co-founder of a company at the center of today’s high-finance college coaching carousel. Defendant Winthrop Intelligence, LLC used public records to aggregate university data, including coaching salaries, and...more

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Taming Modern Data Challenges: Preservation Challenges and Best Practices for Linked Documents

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Many legal professionals talk about the challenge of collecting linked documents, but there are historical preservation challenges as well. Preserving linked documents may require ensuring that the content remains unchanged...more

Thompson Coburn LLP

Courts Are Not Short-Circuiting AI Copyright Claims at the Pleading Stage

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In the ongoing debate over the legality of training large language models (LLMs) on copyrighted materials, recent summary judgment wins for defendants in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta have attracted significant...more

Frantz Ward LLP

Reminder from Recent Appellate Decisions: Contract Provisions Will Be Enforced as Written

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Parties to construction contracts sometimes will agree to onerous provisions, despite their inclination to object to them, with the thought of “how likely is that to occur?” Three recent court decisions highlight why parties...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

New Mass Tort Procedural Rules Have Taken Effect

On December 1, 2025, new Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16.1 took effect, addressing a gap in the Federal Rules concerning how multidistrict litigation (MDL) should commence following consolidation. MDL is a procedural...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Defendant Successfully Avoids a Subject Matter Waiver, But Could Have Avoided Any Waiver

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Disclosing privileged or work product-protected communications to a third party can risk a waiver of those communications’ protections. In some circumstances, such a disclosure can trigger a more frightening subject matter...more

Ankura

A New Day in the Life of a PAGA Action: What Do PAGA Settlements Look Like? What Will We Find When Analyzing the Information...

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In our first installment, we discussed the general changes to the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) that took effect in June 2024. We noted that these changes lowered penalties and allowed companies a longer horizon to...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

How Following “Doctors’ Orders” Provided a Defense in a First Circuit FCA Case

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When it comes to False Claims Act (FCA) litigation, clinical laboratories often find themselves in the crosshairs. But the First Circuit’s decision in United States ex rel. Omni Healthcare v. MD Labs offers a strong reminder:...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Illumination Zone: Episode 218 | Nate Latessa of HaystackID sits down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson

In this episode, the thirty-fifth in a series, Nate Latessa, Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Advisory Services for EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID, sits down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson to update us...more

Morgan Lewis

In OSH Act Constitutionality Challenge, Texas Produce Groups Try Their Luck in Fifth Circuit

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The challenge to the OSH Act by two produce associations has the potential to reshape the future of workplace safety regulation and again test the outer limits of congressional delegation to administrative agencies....more

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Federal Circuit Reinforces Indefiniteness Standard for Terms of Degree

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In Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. MediaPointe, Inc., the Federal Circuit reaffirmed that claim language employing terms of degree such as “optimal” and “best” must be supported by objective and exclusive boundaries in the...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Our View: Careful Digital Reporting Is Clearly Lawful in Texas

Earlier this year a trial court in Montgomery County, Texas, excluded from evidence a non-stenographic deposition transcript in a civil case pending in that court.  In response to this order, opponents of non-stenographic...more

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What Connects “Popcorned Planet” and Ms. Blake Lively?

The answer is “Popcorned Planet, Inc., moves to quash a subpoena for documents served by Blake Lively, who responds in opposition.”  Popcorned Planet, Inc. v. Lively, 2025 WL 3458601 (M.D. Fl. Dec. 2, 2025)....more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CIT Outlines Next Steps for China Section 301 Litigation

As previously reported, on September 25, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. Court of International Trade’s (CIT) decision upholding the Section 301 China tariffs imposed during President...more

Cozen O'Connor

How B.C. Family Court Trends Are Reshaping Mediation and Separation Planning in 2026

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The Provincial Court of British Columbia has released its 2024-25 Annual Report, providing new insight into how separating families are resolving disputes across the province. The Provincial Court’s data reflect a clear and...more

TransPerfect Legal

Five eDiscovery Data Source Challenges—and How to Overcome Them

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Discovery used to be pretty straightforward. Most of the data legal teams needed lived on email servers or shared drives, making it easy to find and manage. How times have changed. Now, information resides in an...more

Alston & Bird

For Your Consumption | November 2025: Ain’t No Rest for the Plaintiffs

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In the November edition of For Your Consumption, our food & beverage digest of court cases and litigation trends affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries, a plaintiff is choking on the splinters,...more

Epstein Becker & Green

State Cannot Immunize Parties from Federal Civil Liability - SCOTUS Today

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While we U.S. Supreme Court practitioners and observers await decisions in several already-argued cases of great significance regarding the separation of powers and executive authority, the Court this morning issued a per...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Swing of the Pendulum: A Tale of Two “For Cause” Removals

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Strict compliance with contractual conditions precedent, yea or nay? In New York, it depends. Now, the general rule is that strict compliance with contractual conditions precedent is required....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Supreme Court to Clarify Jurisdiction for Confirming or Vacating Arbitration Awards in Federal Court

With the Supreme Court of the United States’s decision to grant certiorari in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, the upcoming case challenging the scope of federal-court jurisdiction to confirm or vacate arbitration awards,...more

Loeb & Loeb LLP

In re OpenAI, Inc., Copyright Infringement Litigation

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Finding that OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege in multidistrict litigation over copyright infringement claims, district court grants plaintiffs’ motion to compel OpenAI to produce communications with in-house counsel...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Illinois Supreme Court Clarifies Standing Requirement for Statutory Claims in No-Injury Cases

On November 20, the Supreme Court of Illinois issued an opinion holding that plaintiffs seeking statutory damages under the federal FCRA, including claims under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), must...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

District Court Revives Review of Its Preliminary Injunction Against the CFPB

On November 26, the Trump administration and the union representing CFPB employees both replied to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s order to identify which provisions of the court’s original preliminary...more

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