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It’s Settled!!  The Second Department Holds that Length Does Matter

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Most often a lawsuit begins with the filing of a summons and complaint or summons with notice. CPLR 304. Once the lawsuit is commenced, the plaintiff is required to serve the defendant(s) with process – the event by which...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Legal Déjà Vu: The Law of Preclusion and Re-Litigation of Standing-Based Dismissals

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Dismissals for lack of standing are routine in business divorce cases. Examples abound on this blog. Litigation over standing to sue takes an outsized role in business divorce cases for many reasons....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Fifth Circuit Hold that Courts May Bypass Equitable Mootness to Rule on the Merits of Appeal

In Matter of Texxon Petrochemicals, L.L.C., 67 F.4th 259 (5th Cir. 2023), the Fifth Circuit held that even if an appeal is equitably moot, the appellate court nonetheless has appellate jurisdiction to consider the merits of...more

Robinson+Cole Environmental Law +

SCOTUS Temporarily Resurrects Trump-ERA Clean Water Act Rule

On April 6, 2022, by a 5-4 vote in the case of Louisiana, et. al. v. American Rivers, et. al., the Supreme Court temporarily resurrected a Trump-era rule that sought to stop the practice of many states and tribes from...more

Robinson+Cole Class Actions Insider

Seventh Circuit: Defendants Need Not Prove Merits of Defenses to Defeat Class Certification

A recent Seventh Circuit decision makes an important point about how the principle that a court generally need not resolve the merits to decide class certification is bilateral – it applies to both affirmative claims and...more

Smart & Biggar

PM(NOC) Regulations: Fourth year following major amendments

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September 21, 2021 marked the fourth anniversary of the significant amendments to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations (Regulations). This article provides an update on activities in the fourth year...more

Knobbe Martens

Medical Device Trade Secret Not Publicly Disclosed via Patenting, Displaying, and Selling Covered Product, 7th Cir. Affirms

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Can certain specific medical device details remain company know-how or protected trade secrets even if patents are pursued on the medical device? Consider the Seventh Circuit’s commentary in its August 9, 2021 decision...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

A New Kind Of “Merit” Badge: The Petition For Writ Of Certiorari

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A writ of certiorari is a discretionary, extraordinary writ—and is therefore never granted as a matter of right. See, e.g., King v. Taylor, 188 N.C. 450, 451, 124 S.E. 751, 751 (1924) (explaining that the writ “is allowed...more

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Fifth Circuit: Plaintiff Not Entitled to Attorneys’ Fees For Obtaining Remand on Appeal

The Fifth Circuit concluded that an individual plaintiff was not entitled to attorneys’ fees, even though she persuaded the Fifth Circuit to vacate and remand a summary judgment decision in favor of the Humana Health Plan,...more

Carlton Fields

Fifth Circuit Suggests Question of Class Arbitrability Was for Arbitrator Not Court

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The Fifth Circuit has suggested that the question of class arbitrability was for the arbitrator, not the court, based on the language of the arbitration clause at issue. The court ultimately concluded, however, that it did...more

Robinson+Cole ERISA Claim Defense Blog

Remand Directing Change in Standard of Judicial Review Is Not Sufficient Success on the Merits to Support Attorneys’ Fee Award

In Ariana M. v. Humana Health Plan of Texas, Inc., No. 18-20700, 2019 WL 5866677 (5th Cir. Nov. 8, 2019), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a plaintiff’s petition for attorneys’ fees under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g).  This...more

Bennett Jones LLP

The Balance of Convenience in Judicial Review Applications—A Lesson in the Cannabis Space

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In judicial review applications, the reviewing court's decision to grant a remedy is discretionary, even if the applicant makes out its case on the merits (although typically the court will grant remedial relief where the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Same, Only Better: Eighth Circuit Affirms Peabody Chapter 11 Plan Backstopped Rights Offering Despite Alleged Disparate...

On August 9, 2019, in a unanimous decision (written by a former bankruptcy judge), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the confirmation of the Peabody Energy Chapter 11 plan (“Plan”) with a prominent backstopped...more

Vedder Price

Court Finds for Defendant Investment Adviser in Section 36(b) Excessive-Fee Case

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On August 5, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California found for the defendant, Metropolitan West Asset Management, LLC (MetWest), following a bench trial in an excessive fee case brought under...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Summer Day Camp Derivative Headed to Trial

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A recent decision in Greenhaus v. Gersh out of the Commercial Division, Suffolk County, is yet another example.  This time, the business is a summer day camp located on the north shore of Long Island in Huntington, New York....more

Troutman Pepper

New Conventions, New Problems?: A Pair of Recently Announced International Conventions Aim to Replicate the Success of the New...

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As many owners and contractors involved in the international construction industry are aware, international arbitration is a popular dispute resolution device for international construction disputes because, in part,...more

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Bankruptcy Discharge of Debts for Willful and Malicious Injury

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Can a debtor discharge a debt arising out of a deliberate or intentional act that causes injury to you? A recent article addressed the general issue of discharging debts in bankruptcy and various grounds for excepting...more

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Summary Judgment 102: Make Sure Your “Money Instrument” Is In Tune With CPLR 3213

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Summary judgment plays an important role in litigation. So important, in fact, that many of our blog posts are devoted to the topic. Last week, my colleague Matthew Donovan discussed the policy against allowing successive...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB does not seek lifting of stay of compliance date for payday loan rule’s payment provisions in new status report filed in...

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The CFPB and the two industry trade groups that filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) filed a new status report with the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The First Particular Market Situation Determination Falls: Nexteel Co. v. United States Slip Op. 19-1 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2019)...

A new year brings new decisions. In the first opinion issued in 2019 by the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), Judge Choe-Groves addresses the application of a hot-button issue—the U.S. Department of Commerce’s recently...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - January 2019 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., Appeal Nos. 2013-1527, 2014-1121, -1526, -1528 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 11, 2019) - In the continuing saga between WesternGeco and ION Geophysical, a Federal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

GAO Annual Report On Bid Protests: 2018 Yields More Protests, More Merit Decisions, But Fewer Sustains and Fewer Hearings

On November 27, 2018, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released its Bid Protest Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2018. Under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (“CICA”), GAO is required to...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Standing in the Way of a Supreme Court Decision on Cy Pres-Only Class Action Settlements

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What is the value of the class action mechanism if no redress is provided to plaintiffs at all? Is the class action about providing a remedy to plaintiffs, is it just about getting the defendant company to pay something to...more

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What About the Merits – What, If Anything, Will the Supreme Court Do With Cy Pres-Only Class Action Settlements?

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We have been talking about Frank v. Gaos, (No. 17-961), since the U.S. Supreme Court decided to tackle the extreme case of the use of the cy pres doctrine in the context of class action cases. The settlement is a cy pres-only...more

Holland & Knight LLP

ASBCA FY18 Report: Continued Decline in Appeals Filed, But Success in Cases Decided on the Merits Rises

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On Oct. 10, 2018, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) released its annual report describing its case activity for FY 2018. The good news for contractors is that out of the 139 cases decided on the merits, the...more

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