Coverage of complaints, verdicts, court cases, trends in litigation, including high stakes commercial litigation, MDL and class action cases, and PI cases
By Ben Hancock | January 3, 2018
After facing allegations from Uber that it nurtured online advertising fraud to extract millions of dollars, the global advertising firm Fetch Media Ltd. has fired back with a new lawsuit that accuses Uber of forum-shopping and evading its bills.
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By Sue Reisinger | January 3, 2018
Veteran in-house counsel Arnold Pinkston began work this week as the new chief legal officer at CoreLogic Inc., an Irvine, California-based property and data technology company.
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By Harry N. Mazadoorian | January 3, 2018
Resisting regulation when it is truly needed would put many disputants at a distinct disadvantage. But overregulation would sap ADR of the very vitality which has been its lifeblood: party determination and control.
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By Robert Storace | January 3, 2018
2018 is expected to a busy year in both the courts and the state Legislature as issues like legalizing recreational marijuana to whether the state's education funding formula is fair to both students in suburban schools and their urban counterparts play out.
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By Lazaro I. Vazquez and Francis E. Rodriguez | January 3, 2018
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S.720 and H.R.1697), a bill in Congress attracting debate, is considered by some to protect the interests of the United States and by others to violate the First Amendment right to free speech. Regardless of how the proposed legislation pans out, it is casting a spotlight on existing U.S. anti-boycott laws and regulations that are often overlooked when structuring cross-border transactions. These laws require serious consideration.
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By Lizzy McLellan | January 2, 2018
The firm has added to its private client, litigation and public and project finance practices.
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By Greg Land | January 2, 2018
U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash dismissed a lawsuit claiming a man defrauded FedEx by accessing a corporate shipping account offering discounted rates, then charging third parties higher rates to ship items.
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By David B. Saxe and Danielle C. Lesser | January 2, 2018
David B. Saxe and Danielle C. Lesser write discuss 'Princes Point v. Muss Dev.', in which the Court of Appeals found that a prospective purchaser's commencement of an action seeking to rescind an amendment to a purchase agreement one month prior to the last day to close on the purchase did not constitute an unequivocal communication to the seller of the purchaser's intention not to perform. The result is a detour into an area of murky jurisprudence that may prove unsettling to the commercial bar that relies on the certainty of precedent and its application in a way that conforms to the realities of commercial practice.
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By Robert Storace | January 2, 2018
The verdict came after the defense rejected a $15,000 settlement offer.
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By Commentary by B. Michael Clark, Jr. | January 2, 2018
In Florida construction defect cases, does the statutory process embodied by Chapter 558 of the Florida Statutes, which is a condition precedent to commencing litigation, constitute a “suit” that must be recognized and adjusted by a contractor's liability insurer? That was the question that a federal appellate court put to the Florida Supreme Court.
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