Defense Strategies, Reversal, Litigation Strategies

Ninth Circuit Revives Copyright Suit Over Sam Smith’s “Dancing with a Stranger” and Reaffirms the Jury’s Role

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 5/7/2025

On April 29, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals revived the copyright infringement case filed by Sound and Color, LLC against Sam Smith, Normani, and related parties (collectively, “Defendants”) concerning the hit song...more

Voir Dire on Content, Not Effect: Lessons from the Tsarnaev Appeal

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 8/12/2020

We tend to think of “bias” as it applies to juries, but courts can have their own deep-seated practices. For example, judges will often prefer voir dire questions that focus on the juror’s own assessment of the influence of a...more

Losing Twice at Trial: Denying Requests for Admission Can Come Back to Bite You

Weintraub Tobin on 7/10/2019

Litigation tends to be expensive, increasingly so due to the burdens of discovery. (You can thank the advent of emails, text messages, and other forms of communication now documenting conversations that used to take place by...more

Examining Corwin: Latest Trends and Results

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 5/13/2019

The Delaware Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC1 fashioned a powerful defense in post-closing money damages cases for boards of directors by finding that business judgment deference applies...more

Preserving Premature Rulings

Carlton Fields on 5/7/2019

The jury was still deliberating over the personal injury case in Showan v. Pressdee, No. 1:16-cv-00468-ODE (N.D. Ga.), when the senior U.S. district judge decided to “get the ball rolling” on an expected motion for damages...more

Defense Strategies › Reversal › Litigation Strategies

Ninth Circuit Revives Copyright Suit Over Sam Smith’s “Dancing with a Stranger” and Reaffirms the Jury’s Role

Voir Dire on Content, Not Effect: Lessons from the Tsarnaev Appeal

Losing Twice at Trial: Denying Requests for Admission Can Come Back to Bite You

Examining Corwin: Latest Trends and Results

Preserving Premature Rulings

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