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November 18, 2024
5th Circ. Indicates DOT Airline Fees Rule May Need Reworking
A pair of Fifth Circuit judges signaled Monday that the U.S. Department of Transportation may have to rework its rule requiring airlines to more clearly disclose add-on fees upfront, suggesting that it might be too costly for airlines to comply with the mandate and consumers would be overloaded with information.
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November 18, 2024
Senate Confirms Fla. Magistrate Judge To 11th Circ.
The Senate voted 49-45 on Monday to confirm U.S. Magistrate Judge Embry J. Kidd of the Middle District of Florida to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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November 18, 2024
DC Circ. Doubts It Can Confirm Foreign Enforcement Order
The D.C. Circuit did not seem at all convinced Monday morning that two Mauritian mining companies could lean on a treaty governing arbitral awards to enforce a foreign court judgment confirming a $50 million arbitration award against Zimbabwe stemming from a soured joint mining venture.
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November 18, 2024
Justices Urged To Pass On 3rd Circ. CFPB Loan Trust Case
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny an appeal by a group of student loan trusts fighting an enforcement action by the agency, arguing that industry concerns about the Third Circuit case are overblown and unavailing.
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November 18, 2024
9th Circ. Judges Seem Split In Trans Woman's Spa Bias Case
Ninth Circuit judges debated Monday whether a nude Korean spa's ban on patrons who "present" as male discriminates against transgender women without gender-affirming surgery, with one judge asking how it was different from barring Black patrons and another who went to a similar spa as a boy in Korea seeming to suggest customers had a right to choose whom to be naked in front of.
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November 18, 2024
Industry Group Wants Trump-Era SEC Proxy Rules Reinstated
The National Association of Manufacturers has urged the D.C. Circuit to reverse a ruling that struck down a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulation on proxy voting, arguing the ruling severely limits the agency's regulatory power without any statutory backing.
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November 18, 2024
J&J Posts $1.17B Bond For Del. Merger Milestone Appeal
Johnson & Johnson Inc. has posted a $1.167 billion surety-backed bond ahead of its planned appeal challenging a Delaware Chancery Court's finding that it owes more than $1 billion to a medical robotics developer's former shareholders caught up in a post-acquisition dispute.
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November 18, 2024
Clemson, Florida State Ask NC Top Court To Toss ACC Suits
Florida State and Clemson universities urged the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss lawsuits brought by the Atlantic Coast Conference over grant of rights contracts, saying the institutions' sovereign immunities aren't waived just because they've agreed to be members of the conference.
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November 18, 2024
Worker Urges High Court To Fix Rift In Axed Age Bias Suit
A former Halliburton employee asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a Tenth Circuit order shuttering his age bias suit after finding he couldn't challenge an arbitration award because the case was voluntarily dismissed, arguing the ruling creates a "twilight zone" in the law.
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November 18, 2024
Pa. Justices Tell Defiant Counties To Shelve Undated Ballots
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a split order Monday halting a handful of counties that were counting mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates on their outer envelopes, in response to complaints from the Republican National Committee and Republican Senate frontrunner Dave McCormick, although one justice said the case isn't ripe.
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November 18, 2024
Full 2nd Circ. Asked To Weigh Sheeran's 'Let's Get It On' Win
Structured Asset Sales LLC has asked the full Second Circuit to review a panel's opinion that Ed Sheeran's hit "Thinking Out Loud" did not copy Marvin Gaye's classic "Let's Get It On," arguing the panel incorrectly affirmed a lower court's ruling that the Copyright Act of 1909 only protected the Motown song's sheet music.
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November 18, 2024
Justices Urged To Deny TCPA Class Certification Challenge
A Florida-based financial services company found to have violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act for sending fax ads to nearly 60,000 recipients is telling the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition from one of those respondents that sought to turn the case into a class action.
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November 18, 2024
Surgeon Keeps Trial Win In Colitis Wrongful Death Suit
A New Jersey state appeals court won't upend a surgeon's trial victory in a suit alleging that he improperly treated an 81-year-old's colitis, leading to her death, finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by blocking the woman's family from replacing their medical expert.
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November 18, 2024
SEC Sued Over FINRA's One-Day Bond Reporting Timeline
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been hit with a lawsuit seeking to overturn a newly adopted rule that will require brokerage firms to report bond transactions more quickly, with the suing organization previously claiming there was no evidence justifying a need for such a change.
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November 18, 2024
State Farm Keeps Win In Suit Over Fatal Domestic Shootings
An Ohio state appeals court on Monday backed State Farm's early win in a dispute between the estates of two deceased romantic partners following shootings that left both dead, with the three-judge panel concluding that the lower court rightly ruled that the insurer's policies with the boyfriend did not cover the incident.
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November 18, 2024
NASCAR Says Clause Removal Shows Fast Appeal Unjustified
NASCAR told the Fourth Circuit on Monday it has removed a controversial clause in its open-team agreements, making it unnecessary to fast-track an injunction appeal by two racing teams, one owned by Michael Jordan, that are suing the organization for alleged monopolistic practices.
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November 18, 2024
Judge Surprised Circle K Fired Clerk Who Touched Robber
A Tenth Circuit judge appeared stunned Monday that Circle K dismissed an elderly convenience store clerk after its management concluded the worker violated company policy when she physically confronted an armed robber.
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November 18, 2024
Texas Appeals Court Finds Telecom Laws Violate Gift Rules
A state appellate court handed dozens of Texas cities a clean-sweep victory in their fight against statewide bargains for telecommunications providers, finding Friday a state law dealing with the fees municipalities can charge telecom companies runs counter to the Texas Constitution.
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November 18, 2024
DC Circ. Skeptical Of Conn. LPTV Station's Market Claim
A panel of D.C. Circuit judges wondered Monday how a Connecticut television licensee's challenge to the way the government determines which stations qualify for small-market protections squared with the text of the statute, as the Federal Communications Commission argued that the law's clear text dooms the station's bid to base eligibility on census data rather than Nielsen Media Research market data.
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November 18, 2024
Hyundai Keeps Trial Win In $17M Suit Over Fatal Crash
A Kentucky appellate panel won't undo a defense verdict for Hyundai Motor America Inc. in a $17 million suit by a family who alleged a manufacturing defect led to three deaths in a head-on collision, rejecting arguments that evidence was improperly admitted in the case.
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November 18, 2024
Mich. Justices Spurn Restaurant Group's COVID Appeal
The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a bar and restaurant association seeking to recoup its members' lost profits from the state's enforcement of COVID-19 public health measures, after tossing individual restaurants' claims earlier this year.
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November 18, 2024
5th Circ. Eyes Procedure In 1st NLRB Constitutionality Cases
The Fifth Circuit appears poised to punt — for now — on the issue of the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality after a panel questioned on Monday whether SpaceX and Amazon have valid challenges to "effective" denials of their efforts to thwart prosecution for alleged labor violations.
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November 18, 2024
Justices Urged To Review Landlords' COVID Eviction Ban Suit
A group of trade associations and a nonprofit urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to grant a review petition filed by landlords claiming they lost $100 million as a result of Los Angeles' COVID-19 eviction moratorium, which ended in January.
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November 18, 2024
EPA Has No Choice But To Rethink Smog Rule, DC Circ. Told
U.S. Steel Corp. told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was obligated to reconsider its so-called "good neighbor" smog emissions rule after it was partially invalidated by a court, arguing the agency's own brief confirms that its refusal to do so was improper.
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November 18, 2024
Mo. Bank Properly Valued At $1.1M, Commission Rules
A Missouri property that is owned and operated by a bank branch was properly valued at $1.1 million, the state's tax commission ruled, saying the bank's appraiser was not persuasive in her argument that the value should be lowered to $725,000.
Expert Analysis
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Can SEC's Consolidated Audit Trail Survive Post-Chevron?
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is currently in a showdown at the Eleventh Circuit over its authority to maintain a national market system and require that the industry spend billions to maintain its consolidated audit trail, a case that is further complicated by the Loper Bright decision, says Daniel Hawke at Arnold & Porter.
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'Minimum Contacts' Issues At Stake In High Court FSIA Case
In CC/Devas v. Antrix, the U.S. Supreme Court must decide whether a "minimum contacts" requirement should be implied in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, with the potential to dramatically change the legislative landscape through the establishment of a new and significant barrier to U.S. suits against foreign states, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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2nd Circ. American Girl Ruling Alters Test Purchase Norms
The Second Circuit's recent ruling in American Girl v. Zembrka overturns years of precedent that required completed test purchase shipments to establish jurisdiction in infringement cases, but litigators shouldn't abandon the strategy entirely, say Robert Wasnofski and Sara Gates at Dentons.
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State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape
Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.
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Cos. Face Increasing Risk From Environmental Citizen Suits
Environmental citizen suits stepping in to fill the regulatory vacuum concerning consumer goods waste may soon become more common, and the evolving procedural landscape and changes to environmental law may contribute to companies' increased exposure, say J. Michael Showalter and Bradley Rochlen at ArentFox Schiff.
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11th Circ. Kickback Ruling May Widen Hearsay Exception
In a $400 million fraud case, U.S. v. Holland, the Eleventh Circuit recently held that a conspiracy need not have an unlawful object to introduce co-conspirator statements under federal evidence rules, potentially broadening the application of the so-called co-conspirator hearsay exception, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.
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8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney
A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.
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2 Rulings Show How Courts Assess Health Benefit Denials
Two recent decisions from federal appeals courts offer important insights into how courts are assessing denials of health benefit claims brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, including guidance on how plan administrators should evaluate claims and what documents must be disclosed, says Mark DeBofsky at DeBofsky Law.
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2nd Circ. Provides NY Pathway For Fighting Foreign Infringers
A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit provides a road map for expeditiously obtaining personal jurisdiction in New York against foreign trademark infringers based on a single purchase of counterfeit goods, meaning the Second Circuit could now be the preferred venue for combating foreign infringement, says Jeffrey Ratinoff at Spencer Fane.
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Recent Securities Cases Highlight Risks In AI Disclosures
Increasing public disclosure about the use and risks of artificial intelligence, and related litigation asserting that such disclosures are false or misleading, suggest that issuers need to exercise great care with respect to how they describe the benefits of AI, say Richard Zelichov and Danny Tobey at DLA Piper.
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Sublimit And Policy Interpretation Lessons From Amtrak Case
The recently settled dispute between Amtrak and its insurers over sublimit coverage illustrates that parties with unclear manuscript policies may wish to avoid litigation in favor of settlement — as the New York federal court declined to decide the case by applying prior term interpretations, says Laura Maletta at Chartwell Law.
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3rd Circ. Hertz Ruling Highlights Flawed Bankruptcy Theory
The Third Circuit, in its recent Hertz bankruptcy decision, became the latest appeals court to hold that noteholders were entitled to interest before shareholders under the absolute priority rule, but risked going astray by invoking the flawed theory of code impairment, say Matthew McGill and David Casazza at Gibson Dunn.
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Opinion
Barrett Is Right: Immunity Is Wrong Framework In Trump Case
Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s concurrence in Trump v. U.S., where the majority opinion immunized former presidents almost entirely from criminal prosecution for official actions, rests on a firmer constitutional foundation than the majority’s immunity framework, says Matthew Brogdon at Utah Valley University.
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Opinion
This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process
In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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A Look At The PTAB's Assessment Of Prior Art Exceptions
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's approach over the last 10 years to assessing Section 102(b) prior art exceptions reveals a few trends, including that evidence of common ownership may have a higher likelihood of successfully disqualifying prior art under Section 102(b)(2)(C) at the institution stage, say Louis Panzica and David Holman at Sterne Kessler.