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Texas Business Court Quarterly Update – Q1 and Q2 2025

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As a part of Vinson & Elkins’ Texas Business Court Quarterly Update, the following update summarizes the Texas Business Court opinions—categorized by primary issue—that have been released since September 1, 2024 through the...more

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Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion to Remand Shipyard Case to State Court

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Jurisdiction:  Louisiana Eastern District Court - Plaintiff Nolan J. LeBoeuf worked at the Avondale Shipyard in Westwego, La. for several years during the 1970s and 1980s. He also frequently visited coworkers on his days off...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

2nd Circuit affirms leveraged loans are not securities

On August 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a district court’s order dismissing plaintiff’s claim that a national bank’s nearly $1.8 billion syndicated loan for a drug testing company were...more

Goldberg Segalla

District Court Finds Defendant Has Colorable Federal Officer Statutory Defense, Denies Plaintiffs’ Motion to Remand

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Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana - This is an asbestos-related lawsuit claiming that Shelton Boutte contracted lung cancer from alleged exposure to asbestos during his career as...more

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Motion to Remand Denied as Defendant’s Removal Timely Under Federal Officer Removal Statute

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Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana - In this asbestos action, decedent Gayle LeBeau alleged take-home exposure to asbestos from her father and brother’s work at the Avondale...more

Freeman Law

Tax Court in Brief | Whistleblower 769-16W v. Comm’r | Can the Tax Court divest itself of jurisdiction over a whistleblower...

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Tax Litigation:  The Week of August 1st, 2022, through August 5th, 2022 Eze v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-83 | August 4, 2022 | Lauber, J. | Dkt. No. 21425-19...more

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Be Careful What You Wish For: Lack of Article III Standing Comes Back to Bite TCPA Defendants

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Defense arguments about a plaintiff’s lack of standing in federal court can come back to bite them, as shown by the Southern District of Florida’s recent decision in Guerra v. Newport Beach Auto. Grp. LLC, No. 21-20568, 2021...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

TCPA Plaintiff Argues he wasn’t Injured in Attempt to Dodge Federal Jurisdiction

Usually, it is the plaintiff that argues he or she was injured, not the defendant. But, in an effort to stay in state court, some TCPA plaintiffs have taken the counterintuitive position that they did not suffer an injury in...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Bankruptcy Court Holds Automatic Stay Inapplicable to Removal of State Court Action Against Debtor

When a party files for bankruptcy, the Bankruptcy Code imposes an automatic stay of litigation against a debtor for claims arising prior to the commencement of the bankruptcy case. See 11 U.S.C. § 362(a). Where there is a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Class Action Chronicle - Midyear Update 2018

This edition focuses on rulings issued between February 16, 2018, and June 15, 2018. In this issue, we cover three decisions granting motions to strike/dismiss class claims, five decisions denying such motions, 27 decisions...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Don’t Remand Me: Court Denies Motion to Remand FCRA Case

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Cavanaugh v. Equifax Info. Servs., 2018 U.S. Dist LEXIS 169911 (D. Me. Oct. 2, 2018) is a recent and good reminder of the difficulties plaintiffs face when attempting to remand FCRA cases based on additional state law claims....more

Carlton Fields

Eleventh Circuit Reverses Order Compelling Arbitration Between Non-Signatories

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Plaintiff Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC (“Outokumpu”) contracted with F.L. Industries, Inc. “”FLI”), a German company, to provide cold rolling mills (“CRMs”), which are used in the production of certain steel products. FLI...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Class Action Chronicle - Spring 2016

This is the 11th edition of The Class Action Chronicle, a quarterly publication that provides an analysis of recent class action trends, along with a summary of class certification and Class Action Fairness Act rulings issued...more

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