Bill on Bankruptcy: Will 2013 Be Kind To The Bankruptcy Bar?
A federal court in Wisconsin recently transferred a franchisor’s breach of contract lawsuit to Indiana, the location of the franchisee, even though the parties’ supply agreement contained a Wisconsin forum selection clause....more
Last week, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued yet another opinion making it easier for plaintiffs to choose preferred venues to sue corporations. Continuing a trend that has emerged over the last several years, the...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the arguments of a state university in support of sovereign immunity and affirmed the district court’s decision to transfer the case to the District of Delaware. Board...more
State Sovereignty Principles Do Not Allow a State to Bring a Patent Infringement Suit in an Improper Venue - In Board of Regents v. Boston Scientific Corp., Appeal No. 2018-1700, the Federal Circuit ruled that the patent...more
Judge Gilstrap's Short-lived Venue Calculus - The Federal Circuit has spent more than a decade as the Supreme Court's favorite judicial whipping boy, usually because the Court apprehended that their appellate inferior had...more
Krauser v. Biohorizons, Inc. - Addressing whether a declaratory judgment action qualified as a civil action relating to patents for purposes of establishing appellate jurisdiction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more
The topic of transfer of bankruptcy venue continues to percolate. There were panels on the topic at both the summer 2013 American Bankruptcy Institute Mid-Atlantic Conference, and the May 2014 annual American Bankruptcy...more