The Missouri Supreme Court vacated a circuit court’s judgment in a personal injury suit against a trampoline park, concluding last week that an arbitrator was required to weigh […]
Slip-and-Fall Suit Against Target, Store Manager Sent to State Court, Federal Judge Rules
A slip-and-fall suit against Target and a store manager is headed back to state court after a federal judge in Illinois determined the store manager was properly named […]
Court Affirms Conviction of Ex-Uber Security Chief That Shook Cybersecurity World
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday unanimously upheld former Uber security chief Joseph Sullivan’s 2022 conviction on charges he […]
Attorney Cleared to Withdraw Despite Client’s Objections, Court Rules
A federal judge in Massachusetts sided with an attorney looking to remove herself as counsel after years of litigation, despite her client’s attempts to bar her departure. In […]
Fully-Paid $20M Award Halts Post-Judgment Interest From Accruing on Appeal, State High Court Says
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court determined that the full payment of a $20 million judgment in a commercial property lease dispute stopped post-judgment interest from accruing during an […]
Lyft Must Face Negligence, Product Liability Claims Over Fatal Carjacking, State Court Rules
Plaintiffs suing rideshare services for fatal incidents involving suspicious riders may have found some hope for recourse in the state courts last week, after coming up short in […]
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Ban on Minor ‘Conversion Therapy’
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a Christian counselor’s free-speech challenge to a Colorado law prohibiting the practice of “conversion therapy” on LGBTQ children. Colorado is one of […]
German Court Rules Pfizer, BioNTech Infringed Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Patent
Freshfields has won a Düsseldorf regional court patent dispute on behalf of client Moderna against German COVID-19 vaccine inventors BioNTech and Pfizer. BioNTech, represented by Taylor Wessing, and […]
Ed Sheeran Accusers Ask Supreme Court to Tackle ‘Let’s Get It On’ Case
The legal battle over whether Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” infringed Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On” has reached the U.S. Supreme Court more than a decade after […]
Am Law 200 Firm’s $38M Malpractice Settlement Gets Court Approval
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott on Friday received final approval for a $38 million legal malpractice settlement resolving suits filed against the firm for former partner John Pauciulo’s […]