On March 23, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in Allen v. Cooper, the closely-watched case testing the constitutionality of the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act of 1990

In a precedential decision that will impact numerous recognition proceedings in the U.S., the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...

On July 10, 2017, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first circuit court to apply the six-year statute of limitations from the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 (HEAR Act).

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

In July, the U.S. Senate introduced the Art Market Integrity Act (AMIA), legislation that would require art dealers and auction houses to comply...

On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to reverse the Third Circuit and affirm that authorized natural gas pipeline developers have the ability to exercise federal eminent...

With the election of J.B. Pritzker as the next governor of Illinois on Nov. 6, 2018, there is likely to be quick legislative action on the legalization of recreational marijuana use.

A New Jersey Bankruptcy Court holds that, unless waived, the Bankruptcy Code does not abrogate sovereign immunity for Indian Tribes because Congress must make clear and unequivocal its intent to abrogate an Indian Nation's immunity.

The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel ("BAP") has held for the first time that neither sovereign immunity nor the Younger abstention doctrine constrain bankruptcy courts from enjoining State...

State-affiliated entities enjoy immunity from suit in federal courts under the 11th amendment.

On Friday, July 20, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressed the controversial application of sovereign immunity for inter partes review in Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on October 16, 2017 ruled four Allergan patents relating to its blockbuster eye drug Restasis, as invalid.

In recent weeks sanctions against Russia's central bank have prompted renewed buzz around the issue of sovereign immunity. The interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA"), ...

On Sunday, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it lifted sanctions on three entities associated with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska ...

Subscription facility lenders are rightfully interested in ensuring that capital commitments of foreign sovereign limited partners are enforceable, despite any available claim to sovereign immunity.

First Tuesday Update is our monthly take on current issues in commercial disputes, international arbitration, and judgment enforcement.

As if international trade's deadlines and other timing concerns weren't challenging enough already, now America's importers - and the transportation service providers who service them - have another concern in their scheduling equations.

On June 21, 2019, the DC Circuit doubled down on its August 2017 decision in Attias v. Carefirst, Inc., 865 F.3d 620, reviving litigation against the US OPM and its vendor that was filed following a highly publicized...

In late May, the Connecticut Supreme Court held[1] that the tribal lending entity Great Plains Lending (Great Plains) is protected by tribal sovereign immunity as an "arm of the tribe,"...

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