Entertainment Law Update Episode 160 – August/September 2023
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now - An IP Podcast: NIL – New NCAA Guidelines and State Law Implementation
AGG Talks: Background Screening - What is FCRA Preemption, and Why Should You Care?
Alan Dershowitz, retired Harvard Law professor and former attorney for Jeffrey Epstein and President Trump, has made some headlines over the past week over his feud with a pierogi vendor on Martha’s Vineyard. According to...more
Recently, in the case United States v. Miller, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the sovereign immunity waiver provision in the Bankruptcy Code is jurisdictional only and does not waive the federal government’s sovereign...more
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions: Bondi v. VanDerStok, No. 23-852: This case addresses a statutory challenge to ATF regulations designed to prohibit ghost guns—privately made...more
On January 15, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision in Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc. v. Wullschleger, No. 23–677, holding that when a case alleging both state and federal claims is removed to...more
This week, we take a look at two Ninth Circuit decisions wrestling with issues of statutory interpretation. In the first, the Court considered the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act’s prohibition of state-law claims...more
278-1. Federal Circuit Remands Patent Infringement Case to Answer Patent Ownership and License to Practice Questions - The Federal Circuit recently vacated a grant of summary judgment of non-infringement of a patent,...more
Not for the first time, I find myself intrigued by the federal courts’ resistance to hearing state law claims for judicial dissolution of business entities where subject matter jurisdiction otherwise exists based on diversity...more
On September 12, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the dismissal of state law securities actions by individual investors who elected to opt out of a related class action against a...more
The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution declares federal law to be the “supreme Law of the Land.” Thus, when federal law and state law conflict, the state law is “preempted,” or rendered without effect. Under...more