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Oregon House Bill 4111, effective June 5, 2026, reflects Oregon’s continued shift toward protecting immigrant workers by limiting how a change in immigration status can be used in the workplace and how undocumented status can...more
This month’s Friday Five explores the linear relationship between the information that must be exchanged between a claimant and a claims administrator and a court’s subsequent determination of a dispute between the two. The...more
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., No. 24-889 - Introduction - Yesterday, the Supreme Court held in a unanimous 9-0 decision that induced patent infringement requires active steps to encourage...more
Why North Texas Is Now a Top Destination for Large-Scale Restructurings -Everything's bigger in Texas, including the state's bankruptcy docket. Over the past twelve months, more mega-bankruptcies were filed in Dallas and Fort...more
Sripetch v. SEC, No. 25-466 - Introduction - Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the SEC is not required to show that investors suffered pecuniary loss in order to obtain a disgorgement award. But the Court...more
In a significant development for New Jersey employers, the state appeals court has held that the Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (CREAMMA) permits individuals, including...more
On May 28, 2026, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a $59 million damages award for trade secret misappropriation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) on statute of limitations grounds....more
A unanimous Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and held that Amarin did not plausibly allege that Hikma’s skinny label and marketing actively induced infringement of Vascepa’s cardiovascular-use patents — a decisive...more
Schedule A litigation has become a prominent tool for intellectual property owners to effectively enforce their rights against entities misappropriating their trademarks, copyrights, and/or patented inventions through the...more
Law Conference of Champions IV saw Troutman Amin, LLP partner Brittany Andres take the stage and give an absolutely BRILLIANT discussion of litigation tactics in TCPA class litigation....more
Highlights from this issue include: Intervention. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that after the district court denied a motion to certify a Rule 23(b)(3) damages class,...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved rapidly from an emerging technology to a foundational component of modern business operations. With that growth has come an expanding set of intellectual property (IP) disputes....more
On June 2, 2026, the California Court of Appeal certified for publication its opinion in Hiller v. Marin Municipal Water District. This decision reinforces the powerful preclusive effect of California's Validation Statutes,...more
Developments in securities litigation move fast, and not all of them matter equally. Each month, Alto Litigation curates and summarizes the cases, rulings, and regulatory actions most likely to shape risk and strategy in the...more
On May 28, 2026, the California Supreme Court issued a significant decision in J.O. v. Superior Court of San Joaquin County, holding that courts may, in certain circumstances, look behind peremptory judicial disqualification...more
A federal court in Illinois granted in part and denied in part several motions to dismiss TVPRA and Illinois Trafficking Victims Protection Act claims arising from alleged sex trafficking at multiple Chicago-area...more
District courts in the First Circuit issued several important decisions in early 2026 regarding the enforceability of arbitration provisions and interpreting recent First Circuit precedent. The cases revolved around a variety...more
A recent order from Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut addresses an issue many companies are only beginning to confront: when an expert witness uses artificial...more
The Supreme Court issued its decision today in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma, addressing what it takes to successfully plead a claim for indirect patent infringement...more
With the news out of the Western District of Texas, TalKing IP caught up with K&S’s own Judge (Ret.) Lee Yeakel to ask a few questions about the news and what he sees happening in the District. Judge Yeakel served on the...more
In a unanimous decision handed down today, the Supreme Court delivered a tactical victory for Hikma, and a measure of guidance for other generic manufacturers. In Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., No....more
On February 5, 2026, a Warren County, New Jersey jury returned a $12 million verdict—$4 million in compensatory damages and an additional $8 million in punitive damages—against a small trucking company and its driver in the...more
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled unanimously that the actuary for a multiemployer pension plan (“MPP”) may select actuarial assumptions used to calculate withdrawal liability after the measurement date, provided...more
For the fourth time in seven years, SCOTUS issued a narrow but unanimous opinion reiterating that the transportation worker’s exemption to compelling arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act’s (FAA) reaches employees who...more
Last fall, I blogged about the challenges of overturning an arbitrator’s award (check out that post here). That case illustrated the difficulties of vacating an award based on a purported erroneous ruling of law. But what if...more
