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On May 27, 2026, Husch Blackwell secured a significant win for client Continuum Transportation Services Ltd. (Continuum) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The court granted summary judgment in...more
Happy Friday, TCPAWorld! We frequently discuss the strategic importance of bifurcating discovery in TCPA class actions. Asymmetrical discovery costs are one of the primary levers the plaintiff’s bar uses to force classwide...more
On April 29, 2026, the Delaware Supreme Court, sitting en banc, affirmed a pair of decisions by the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissing stockholder complaints seeking to assert as-applied equitable challenges to the...more
Data breaches have become a common place in the digital era, and not surprisingly, data breach litigation has matured due to the increasing frequency and complexity of breaches....more
In a pair of May 2026 decisions, the Federal Circuit offered important guidance on what rights a patent owner must retain in a licensed patent and still have standing to sue. In a precedential opinion involving A.L.M. Holding...more
Our Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group examines a recent UK High Court decision clarifying the standing requirements for creditors seeking administration orders, including holders of convertible loan notes whose...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
The Third Circuit recently added to the growing body of wiretapping law addressing the use of session replay technology in In re BPS Direct, LLC; Cabela’s LLC Wiretapping Litig., 2026 WL 1280969 (May 11, 2026). Expanding on...more
Our readers are aware that when they surf the internet, their data may be shared via the use of third-party pixel tracking technologies (such as those employed by Meta, Google, and Microsoft, to name a few). As our readers...more
On April 24, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided Clippinger v. State Farm Auto. Ins. Co., 173 F.4th 817. By a vote of 10-7, the court ruled that an insurance dispute about the valuation of totaled...more
Just over one year ago, the US Supreme Court addressed the pleading requirements for prohibited-transaction claims under ERISA, holding that a plaintiff need only allege the elements of a prohibited transaction in ERISA...more
Inventorship is an often overlooked detail in patent law that is a statutory condition tied to validity, ownership, standing, and enforceability. The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Fortress Iron, LP v. Digger...more
On April 20, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc., upholding the Federal Circuit’s decision that consumers lack the statutory entitlement to oppose a trademark application...more
The Schedule K-1 is a tax form that pass-through entities use to report each owner’s share of the entity’s income, deductions, credits, and other tax items. It is also one of the great rock stars of business divorce...more
As reported in our February 13, 2025, blog item, on January 17, 2025, the Biden U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. District Court...more
What happens when a business owner believes he’s been misled about the value of his company, only to have his claims dismissed not on their merits, but because of a procedural misstep years earlier? A recent decision from the...more
TL;DR: In privacy class actions, it is often an open legal question whether there is an injury at all. On May 11, 2026, the Third Circuit issued In re BPS Direct, LLC; Cabela's, LLC Wiretapping Litigation, which held that...more
Our Patent Case Summaries provide a weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court decision dismissing a patent infringement suit for lack of constitutional standing, concluding that patentees that retain exclusionary rights, even...more
On May 19, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) dismissed Cage Ranch Solar LLC’s and Cage Ranch Solar II, LLC’s (collectively, Cage Ranch) consolidated petitions for review of FERC...more
A recent Third Circuit decision gives companies another strong defense point in the wave of website tracking and session replay litigation, including claims brought under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)....more
In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit clarified its position on Article III standing for patent infringement suits where the patent holder transferred away some of its rights through an...more
California’s website tracking litigation wave shows no signs of slowing down. Plaintiffs’ attorneys continue to file cookie and pixel tracking lawsuits by the hundreds, alleging that routine third-party analytics and...more
With Congress actively considering proposed federal privacy legislation that could establish a national standard and federal agencies simultaneously pursuing broader access to sensitive health records, the stakes for...more
Peter Sluka wrote a month ago about Matter of Lin v Sun ___ AD3d ___ (2026 NY Slip Op 02065 [1st Dept Apr. 7, 2026]). In Lin, the First Department unanimously rejected a petitioner-appellant’s claim she acquired standing to...more