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How the Birthright Citizenship Issue Could Have Fundamentally Affected College Athletes' NIL Rights

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Introduction - While intended to clarify applicable laws, U.S. Supreme Court rulings sometimes have consequences that impact society in unexpected ways.  These unintended consequences can range from altering the...more

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Slamming the Backdoor on Non-Consensual Third-Party Releases

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Non-Consensual Third-Party Releases are Not Permissible in Section 363 Sales or Rule 9019 Settlements, Regardless of the Suggestions of Some Bankruptcy Courts...more

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Nebraska Tribe Asks Supreme Court to Undo Tobacco Sales Ruling

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A Nebraska tribe’s tobacco businesses are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in HCI Distribution Inc., et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, et al. This decision concluded that the...more

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Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions From Federal Appellate Courts

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Welcome to the inaugural edition of Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions from Federal Appellate Courts.   The Roundup normally will arrive in your inbox the first week of each month and will cover the...more

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hiQ and LinkedIn Reach Proposed Settlement in Landmark Scraping Case

UPDATE: On December 8, 2022, the court issued an order granting the Consent Judgment and Permanent Injunction. On December 6, 2022, the parties in the long-running litigation between now-defunct data analytics company hiQ...more

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Three Point Shot - November 2022

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NBA Properties Lands Slam Dunk in Intellectual Property Win Heard Around the Globe - NBA Properties, Inc. (“NBAP”), the exclusive licensee of the National Basketball Association (“NBA”) and NBA teams’ distinctive trademarks,...more

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Medicaid’s Right of Recovery Against Legal Settlements

The United States Supreme Court recently answered an important question in Medicaid law:  can a state Medicaid plan recover funds from a legal settlement involving a Medicaid beneficiary to pay for that beneficiary’s future...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Five must-watch areas for California employers in 2022

Here's what employers need to heed in 2022. No. 1: Settlement and separation agreements. Pay attention to any new settlement, employment, or severance agreements. We already know that settlement agreement provisions...more

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Badgerow v. Walters: Supreme Court Hears Argument On Federal Jurisdiction To Confirm Arbitration Awards

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The Supreme Court heard argument this week in what may be the most important case on the Court’s docket this Term involving disputes between private parties: Badgerow v. Walters. The case concerns when federal courts have...more

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Fifth Circuit Holds Plaintiff Has Standing to Sue Under TCPA for Receipt of Single Text Message, Parting Ways with Eleventh...

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On May 26, 2021, the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) putative class action arising from the transmission of a single text message to the plaintiff. The...more

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Investigations Newsletter: HHS Announces Formation of FCA Working Group

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HHS Announces Formation of FCA Working Group - On December 4, 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it is creating a False Claims Act Working Group to enhance the partnership between...more

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En Banc Eleventh Circuit Vacates Order Approving Class Settlement, Holding that Plaintiff Lacked Article III Standing Where Bare...

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On October 28, 2020, the en banc Eleventh Circuit reversed the Northern District of Georgia’s approval of a class settlement, holding that the settlement was invalid because the named plaintiff did not have standing to sue...more

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PTAB Precedential Decision Requires Filing of Collateral Agreements

Parties not wishing to have agreements unrelated to the settlement made of record before the PTAB should not refer to those agreements in the PTAB settlement agreement. Any agreement referenced in a settlement agreement...more

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Supreme Court Sides With Lucky Brand in Trademark Dispute

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Earlier this month, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with fashion brand Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. (LB) resolving its decades-old dispute with Marcel Fashion Group, Inc. (Marcel). The victory came on technical...more

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5 Key Trends In Workplace Class Action Litigation In 2019: #4 Lower Class Action Settlement Numbers In 2019

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Seyfarth Synopsis: As measured by the top ten largest case resolutions in various workplace class action categories, overall settlement numbers increased slightly in 2019, but as compared to the last several years, it was one...more

Akerman LLP - Marks, Works & Secrets

Lucky Opening Brief on Cert.: Second Circuit’s Novel “Defense Preclusion” Rule Turns a Blind Eye on Bedrock Preclusion Principles

In June 2019, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashion Group Inc., No. 18-1086.  As set forth in our prior blog posts, Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc. and related...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.21.2019 | Top Story: Four Drug Companies Reach Last-minute Deal to Avoid Start of Federal Opioid Trial

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A last-minute deal between defendants McKesson, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and Teva and plaintiffs’ attorneys means that multidistrict opioid epidemic litigation set to kick off in Ohio federal court today will not...more

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Supreme Court to Address Whether Claim Preclusion Bars Defendant from Raising Defense Not Litigated or Resolved in Prior Case

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The Supreme Court of the United States granted Lucky Brand’s request to address whether claim preclusion principles bar a defendant from asserting a new defense in a case when the defense could have been raised over previous...more

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Will Lucky Get Lucky This Time Around?

On Friday, June 28, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether, in cases where a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated...more

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January 2019: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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False Claims Act: 2018 and the road ahead

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The pace of False Claims Act (FCA) litigation remained furious over the past year. Companies (and individuals) in all sectors of the economy continue to face the ever-present threat of FCA enforcement whenever they do...more

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Safe!: Putative TCPA Class Action Survives Defendant’s Attempt to Pick off the Named Class Member By Deposit

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Can a named class representative continue to represent a putative TCPA class action even after a Defendant pays the Plaintiff the highest amount he/she could possibly recover on their individual claim? That question was left...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Supreme Court’s Business Docket for the October 2018 Term

On September 26, 2018, Skadden hosted a webinar titled “US Supreme Court October 2018 Term.” Topics included some of the key business-related cases on the Supreme Court’s docket, including cases addressing antitrust, foreign...more

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Web Exclusive - June 2018: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Web Exclusive: February 2018: The Top 15 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes all through 2017. And if the first two months...more

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