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JURISIDICTION: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana - Plaintiff brought this action on behalf of her deceased husband, Jerry Graves, who passed away from mesothelioma. She alleges that Mr. Graves...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Shaikh v. Fox News - frivolous claims lacking subject matter jurisdiction - USA v. Niksich - foreign bank accounts, Eighth Amendment challenge - Lil Joe Records v. Won -...more
A civil RICO claim – especially one framed as a putative class action – can be a powerful cause of action because the civil remedies for RICO violations include treble damages and mandatory fee-shifting....more
The United States Supreme Court has issued a unanimous decision in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, holding that a federal court that has previously stayed trial in a pending action awaiting arbitration of arbitrable issues,...more
For purposes of diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332, is a federally chartered corporation (which is not incorporated in any state) a citizen of the state where it has its principal place of business? In Schneiderman...more
On May 14, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, No. 25–83. The opinion resolves a circuit split on the effect of its prior opinion in Badgerow and addresses an...more
Endorsing a streamlined process to enforce arbitration awards, the U.S. Supreme Court held that when a federal district court compels arbitration and stays the case pending completion of the arbitration under Section 3 of the...more
As we predicted in our post After Arbitration, Does a District Court Have Jurisdiction to Confirm or Vacate an FAA Award?, the US Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that a federal court that has sent a dispute to arbitration...more
In a significant win for parties seeking to enforce arbitration agreements, the U.S. Supreme Court last week issued a unanimous decision in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties holding that when a federal court stays a case...more
On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously gave litigants a clearer and more practical rule: when a federal court properly takes a case and stays it for arbitration under Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act,...more
A Connecticut Appellate Court (“Court”) addressed in a May 12th Opinion an issue arising out of a challenge to the construction of a gasoline service station in Stonington. See Charles A. Caldwell v. Jannat, LLC, (AC 48754)....more
A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit underscores the evolving limitations on federal jurisdiction, in this case under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), holding that a plaintiff’s...more
The Second Circuit held that courts must dismiss out-of-state plaintiffs from FLSA collective actions unless the defendant is “essentially at home” in the forum state or consents to the suit in that venue. In a significant...more
In Shaw v. Simpson, Sarah Shaw inherited her husband Shad’s business interests after his intestate death in 2018. No. 13-23-00549-CV, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 8545 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi November 6, 2025, no pet.)....more
In a decision addressing the scope of constitutional challenges to agency action, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a district court’s injunction barring an investigation by the US...more
A federal district court in New York recently dismissed a case for lack of diversity subject matter jurisdiction where the franchisee plaintiff and franchisor defendant were both foreign entities, even though they both...more
IRONSOURCE LTD. v. DIGITAL TURBINE, INC. - Before Moore, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. An appellant seeking to establish Article III standing based on an injury-in-fact flowing from the...more
The fight over whether prediction markets belong in federal or state court continues to intensify. In the span of two days last week, KalshiEX LLC filed its opposition to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s motion to...more
Co-Author Trish Boyd The Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Court”) issued a November 13, 2025 Opinion addressing a question involving the jurisdiction of circuit courts and county courts. See David Scott Taylor v. Rick Ferguson,...more
On April 1, 2026, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a significant ruling foreclosing the possibility of “per-scan” damages under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act...more
A federal appeals court just handed Illinois businesses a significant victory, holding that the 2024 amendment to BIPA capping damages at one recovery per person – not one per scan – must be applied to all cases already...more
A recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States affirms the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Palmquist v. Hain Celestial Group, confirming that plaintiffs sufficiently pleaded claims against...more
The Texas Business Court recently released an opinion in Alamo Title Company v. WFG National Title Company of Texas, LLC,[1] that provides important guidance on how it interprets its subject matter jurisdiction, particularly...more
Investview, Inc. et al. v. UIU Holdings LLC, et al., C.A. No. 2025-0327-BWD (Del. Ch. Nov. 21, 2025) - This action involves a financial technology company, a sale-and-leaseback program, and a dispute arising out of the...more
A federal court in New York recently dismissed a case for lack of diversity subject matter jurisdiction where the franchisee plaintiff and a franchisor defendant were both foreign entities, even though they both maintained...more