Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 412: Listen and Learn -- Motions for Summary Judgment
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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - San Diego Gulls’ Wings Clipped in Dispute Over Logo Copyright
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: San Diego Gulls’ Wings Clipped in Dispute Over Logo Copyright
Jones Day Talks Intellectual Property: Blurrier Lines and Narrow Grounds—Implications of the Ninth Circuit’s Blurred Lines Decision
California courts have certainly been busy as of late. In particular, challenges abound as to the Department of the Interior (the DOI) and its decisions to take certain parcels of land into trust for the purpose of rendering...more
In Southgate Owners Corp. v. Esposito, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 32750(U) (Sup. Ct., N.Y. County July 24, 2025) (here), plaintiff sued defendant, a shareholder in its cooperative building, seeking a declaratory judgment that 80...more
In a recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Texas Debt Collection Act...more
In today’s market, eco-friendly claims can serve as a tool for companies looking to attract environmentally conscious consumers. However, this surge in green marketing has also caught the attention of the plaintiffs’ bar,...more
In navigating the complex world of private company mergers and acquisitions (M&A), understanding recent legal decisions is paramount. This white paper serves as a guide, distilling intricate court rulings into digestible...more
Recent headlines have focused on the $1.6 billion damages claim and Google’s possible exposure in Singular Computing’s patent infringement lawsuit involving Google’s “AI-related” chips. $1.6 billion is certainly not chump...more
On October 18, Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the Eastern District of Virginia approved a $70 million settlement in an antitrust case, with more than $23.3 million awarded to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. This case helpfully...more
There are many different types of Copyright plaintiffs who sue for unlawful and unlicensed use of their copyright-registered content. For example, our firm has dealt with the following types of copyright defense brought by...more
On September 15, 2022, the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (“Court” or “District Court”) entered a significant declaratory judgment addressing the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) historically...more
In a September 22, 2022 decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held a commercial general liability policy’s war and financial services exclusions barred coverage for a suit arising out of the...more
Finding that the defendant debt collector was entitled to rely on the information provided by its client about the name of the debtor, a district court judge in Washington state granted summary judgment in favor of Puget...more
In 2016, we authored an article titled “Pretrial Problems: Don’t Forfeit Your Personal-Jurisdiction Defense.” In that article, we discussed the Seventh Circuit’s decision in German American Financial Advisors & Trust Co. v....more
Stimwave Technologies Inc. v. Laura Tyler Perryman, C.A. No. 2019-1003-SG (Del. Ch. Nov. 17, 2020) - Under Court of Chancery Rule 41(a), a Delaware plaintiff may voluntarily dismiss its own complaint without prejudice,...more
Court of Federal Claims rules that the government “constructively” terminated a contractor for convenience when it did not order the quantities specified in the contract. The “constructive termination for convenience”...more
Magistrate Judge James L. Cott of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently recommended denial of a motion for attorneys' fees to a prevailing party under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). The...more
In Taylor v. Rothstein Kass & Co., PLLC, a receiver for a failed business sued an accounting firm for various claims arising from the auditor’s issuance of a clean audit report concerning certain financial statements. No....more
Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and settlements affecting the agribusiness, food, beverage, and cosmetics industry. Take a spin through 10 key items from 2019, some...more
This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between May and August 2019....more
Brown v. Rite Aid Corporation, C.A. No. 2017-0480-MTZ (Del. Ch. May 24, 2019). Even when an indemnitee takes a circuitous path to victory, the indemnitee is entitled to indemnification under 8 Del. C. § 145(c) for...more
On Wednesday June 5, 2019, all seven of the New York County Commercial Division justices participated on a panel for the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section on “Motion Practice Before...more
Just Because Something May Result From a Prior Art Teaching Does Not Make it Inherent in that Teaching - In Personal Web Technologies, LLC v. Apple, Inc., Appeal No. 2018-1599, the Federal Circuit clarified that the mere...more
CelestialRX Investments, LLC v. Krivulka, C.A. No. 11733-VCG (Del. Ch. Mar. 27, 2019). Section 109 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act is an “implied consent” statute. It provides for personal jurisdiction in...more
When an appellate opinion includes words like joint employment, special employer, general employer, lent employee, or borrowed servant, it usually means that the parties have a fundamental difference of opinion about the...more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini examined a case in which a mortgage company sued a bank under the indemnity clause of the parties loan purchase agreement. The bank sought dismissal on statute of limitations...more
On January 4, 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Maine handed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or “the Commission”) a victory in FERC v. Silkman, a long-running market manipulation...more