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AI Leads the Charge at ANA

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From Nov. 3 through Nov. 5, the Windy City welcomed the ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference. While the conference focused on all things advertising and marketing, one concept seemed to dominate nearly every single panel...more

Marshall Dennehey

Superior Court Affirms Defense Verdict, No Adverse Spoliation Inference Where Lost Video Did Not Capture Incident or Contain...

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Conklin v. Wawa, 2025 WL 2237319 (Pa. Super. 2025) - The plaintiff tripped and fell on a floor mat near the beverage area in the defendant’s store. After the incident, a store employee reviewed surveillance footage from the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

In re Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan) Patent Litigation (Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. MSN Pharms. Inc.)

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Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: Novartis holds the NDA for Entresto, a drug used to treat heart failure, having the active ingredients sacubitril and valsartan. The ’918 patent is not an Orange Book-listed patent...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — October 2025

In 2024, plaintiff Daniel Human sued Fisher Investments, alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and bringing the case on behalf of a putative class. The defendant removed the case to federal court and...more

Carlton Fields

Court Finds MSN Does Not Infringe Novartis’s Patent and Clears the Way for Generic Entresto

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In In re Entresto (Sacubitril/Valsartan) Patent Litigation, Judge Richard G. Andrews of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted MSN Pharmaceuticals Inc. a victory on noninfringement of U.S. Patent No....more

Rumberger | Kirk

What Constitutes Spoliation of Video Evidence?

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On March 12, 2025, in the lawsuit Wal Mart Stores East, LP v. Pineda, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal held that Wal Mart (Walmart) did not negligently or intentionally fail to preserve evidence and that an adverse...more

Array

This Week in eDiscovery: Judges Share Most Impactful Cases and eDiscovery Hiring Heats Up

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the week of February 26 to March 3. Here’s...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

[Webinar] Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for February 2023 - February 14th, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm ET

February 14th is for lovers – of unique and interesting eDiscovery case law disputes! Our February 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses six disputes including declaration of a...more

Venable LLP

Spoliation and Failure to Disclose: What Gets Swept Under the Rug in FTC Investigations Lands in a Dangerous Pit

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Once a company or individual learns they are a target of a Federal Trade Commission investigation, they need to quickly make a series of decisions, then take action. After being notified that the FTC has begun an...more

BCLP

The perils of preservation

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The recent decision In re Keurig Antitrust Litigation, 2022 WL 1082087 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 11, 2022), offers timely examples of how extensive, well-intentioned preservation efforts can go awry – leading to costly motion practice...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Buyer Potentially Liable for Earnout Even Though it had Right to Operate Target in its Discretion

In Shareholder Representative Services LLC v Albertsons Companies, Inc., the aggrieved former shareholders of DineInFresh, Inc., d/b/a Plated, sought recovery of earnout consideration from Plated’s acquirer, Defendant,...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Deleting Cell Phone Images May Result In an Adverse Inference Against Plaintiffs Seeking Damages

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In Luzuriaga v. FDR Servs. Corp., 2020 NY Slip Op 07185 (2d. Dep’t 2020), the Appellate Division, Second Department of the New York State Supreme Court recently affirmed a lower decision to grant a defendant’s request for an...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Florida Real Property And Business Litigation Report, Volume 13, Issue 49

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Lucoff v. Navient Solutions, LLC, Case No. 19-13482 (11th Cir. 2020). A person who consents online to be contacted regarding past due debts (even though he earlier advised the company he did not wish to be contacted) has, as...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

“You Can’t Heal What You Never Reveal”: Plaintiffs Are Entitled To Sanctions And Adverse Inference At Trial Because Jay-Z And S....

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The duty to preserve potentially relevant evidence – documentary or electronic – arises when a lawsuit is reasonably anticipated. Although this is a subjective standard, Parlux Fragrances, LLC et al v. S. Carter...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New Cases Bring Lessons on Video Surveillance Preservation

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Video surveillance is ubiquitous today and often sought in connection with injuries or litigation. As a result, courts are increasingly presented with disputes relating to the preservation and production of surveillance...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Illinois Courts Deal With Privilege Presumptions: Part I

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All courts agree that litigants asserting attorney-client privilege or work product protection must establish the protection's applicability. But courts take different positions on whether any presumptions guide their...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Spoliation Rule Remains Ambiguous Despite Amendments

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Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(e)(2), imposition of the most severe sanctions for failure to preserve relevant electronically stored information — a presumption that the information lost was unfavorable, an...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UK Competition Appeal Tribunal Judgment: Pushing the Envelope on Abuse of Dominance

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The CAT’s Royal Mail v. Ofcom judgment considers what constitutes abusive conduct, the “as-efficient competitor” test, and the use of expert economic advice. On 12 November 2019, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (the...more

White and Williams LLP

Idaho Formally Adopts an Independent Tort for Third Party Spoliation

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Idaho is the latest of several states that now recognize an independent tort against third parties that willfully compromise evidence in an attempt to interfere with a potential civil lawsuit. Courts have long provided...more

Epiq

How Ephemeral Messaging Can Affect eDiscovery Compliance

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Litigators and corporate clients must stay up to date with new technologies and be aware the legal implications that are implicit with new technologies. Lawyers also have an ethical obligation to understand the benefits and...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Address the Central Unknown

Congress and the American public have been gripped by some unknowns recently. A whistleblower in the intelligence community made a claim that the Inspector General considered both credible and urgent. But, initially at least,...more

Kilpatrick

It’s Purple Raining Sanctions: Litigation Regarding Prince’s Estate Provides Framework for Determining When Sanctions Apply Under...

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You may have read my colleague Starling Underwood’s post on two recent Second Circuit decisions discussing sanctions for spoliation. If you have not, I encourage you to read it here. The two cases Starling addressed, one...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The E-Discovery Digest - June 2018

The 10th edition of The E-Discovery Digest focuses on recent decisions addressing the scope and application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, spoliation, and discovery responses....more

Nossaman LLP

Take 5 before Taking the Fifth

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On Friday, June 22, 2018, a Florida Appeals Court handed down its decision in Omulepu v. Department of Health Board of Medicine. ...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The E-Discovery Digest - March 2018

The ninth edition of The E-Discovery Digest focuses on recent decisions addressing the scope and application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, spoliation, and discovery responses....more

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