By now, most lawyers should know the dangers of relying on generative AI for legal research. A big risk is that AI will generate fake case citations and quotations. Failure to check and verify the citations and quotations can…
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/ Bankruptcy, Civil Procedure, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 21, 2025, District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer (S.D.N.Y.) granted Defendants Teads, Inc., Teads SA, and Teads SARL’s (together, “Teads”) Motion to Dismiss Yieldmo, Inc.’s (“Yieldmo”) Amended Complaint alleging that Teads…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Among the changes to the regulatory oversight and enforcement priorities that have accompanied the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term has been an embrace of cryptocurrencies and business models that rely on them. As…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
President Trump’s sweeping package of domestic legislation, H.R. 1 (originally titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBB”)), became law on July 4, 2025. In addition to dramatically reshaping the landscape for charitable…
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/ Education Law, Nonprofit Law, Taxation
On July 4, 2025, H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill (the “OBBB”) was signed into law. Compared to recent legislation, the OBBB does not contain a significant number of employee benefits provisions. However, there…
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/ Health, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
In its October 2025 Term, the Supreme Court will decide whether Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“ICA”) creates a federal cause of action for private plaintiffs seeking rescission of contracts that are…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Securities Law
On July 9, 2025, Judge J. Paul Oetken (S.D.N.Y) found that collateral estoppel barred plaintiff Linfo IP, LLC from relitigating the validity of its asserted patent and dismissed Linfo’s infringement claims against Aero Global,…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Judge Jesse M. Furman (S.D.N.Y.) recently denied Plaintiff Chengdu Tops Technology Co., Ltd.’s (“Chengdu”) motion seeking a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) against “a slew of merchant Defendants” to enjoin “the manufacture,…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
In United States v. Sterkaj, the Second Circuit (Cabranes, Raggi, and Nathan) vacated a sentence imposed on Klaudio Sterkaj because it represented an impermissible upward variance under United States v. Stratton, 820 F.2d 562…
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/ Criminal Law, Immigration Law
As if QSBS wasn’t good enough already, the “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025 enacts significant, founder-friendly changes to Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code, which substantially…
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/ Business Organizations, Taxation
Financial uncertainty has spread across the globe. The U.S. disrupted international commerce by repeatedly threatening to impose sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries, including some of the nation’s closest trading partners…
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/ Bankruptcy, Conflict of Laws, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
United States Magistrate Judge Figueredo recently denied Plaintiff EscapeX IP, LLC’s (“EscapeX”) efforts to seal its objections to billing records Defendant Google LLC (“Google”) had originally filed under seal in connection…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In United States v. Lawrence, the Second Circuit (Park, Menashi, and Kahn) affirmed the within-Guidelines sentence of Andrew Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to six counts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute…
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/ Civil Procedure, Criminal Law
On June 4, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published a concept release soliciting public comment in connection with its re-examination of the nearly 50 year old definition of foreign private issuer (“FPI”)…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
On June 5, 2025, in a unanimous ruling authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court revived the employment discrimination claims of an Ohio woman who contends that she was the victim of “reverse…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
