Let's talk some more about using defining parentheticals. *Yay!* Last week's column suggested that defining parentheticals are usually unnecessary because the reader doesn't need help figuring out...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently addressed whether and when foreign sovereigns are immune from criminal prosecutions inside the United States.

On July 3, 2025, New Jersey Transit (NJT) was granted a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court regarding the issue of whether states...

Federal Trade Commission Finds That Rambus, Inc. Distorted the Standard Setting Process By Engaging in Exclusionary Conduct

In April 2022, Proskauer, with co-counsel Public Counsel and Squire Patton Boggs, filed suit in Arizona federal court on behalf of a Guatemalan mother and daughter...

In a unanimous opinion, the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed the retroactive application of strict notice requirements under Michigan's Court of Claims Act...

According to a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (<I>Prewitt Enterprises, Inc. v. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries</I>, 11th Cir., No. 03-11580, 12/18/03), there are no means available under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("FRCP") to serve the Austrian headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ("OPEC") with a complaint of illegal price fixing, absent the consent of OPEC.

In the 1960 case of Kellam v. School Board of the City of Norfolk, the Supreme Court of Virginia affirmatively held that school boards are protected from suit for tortious claims by the doctrine of sovereign immunity.

The Federal Circuit ruled on Friday July 20, 2018 that tribal sovereign immunity cannot bar inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) ...

On September 5, 2011, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) published its report on United States – Measures Affecting Imports of Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tyres from China (DS399).

Hartford, Conn. (May 26, 2021) - Section 13a-149 of the Connecticut General Statutes, commonly known as Connecticut's highway defect statute...

In a decision issued on February 15, 2023, the Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed a trial court ruling that the doctrine

State governments are often immune from antitrust liability, but a recent U.S. Supreme case demonstrates that is not always the case.

In this week's Fund Finance Friday, we release the first installment of our Sovereign Immunity Series, a new series in which we examine, in alphabetical order,

Following the Oil States decision in which the Supreme Court invoked the public rights doctrine to protect the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) authority to invalidate patents by inter partes review (IPR).

A state's sovereign immunity does not allow its agencies to avoid the requirements of the patent venue statute.

Ahoy, Mateys! Earlier this week, in Allen v. Cooper the United States Supreme Court held that the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act of 1990, a federal statute stripping states of their sovereign immunity from ...

Edward Teach, more popularly known as Blackbeard, roamed the seven seas and terrorized merchant vessels off the U.S. and Caribbean coasts during the colonial period.

During the past few years, the United States has been negotiating bilateral agreements with the United Kingdom and Australia that would create a license exemption for exports to those countries of most items controlled by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (such as defense articles, including commercial satellites, and related technical data).

As if the False Claims Act did not already give companies that do business with the government enough to worry about