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On December 3, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Hungary v. Simon. As discussed in a previous client alert, the case concerns whether the U.S. Court of Appeals...

We have recently been fielding a number of questions from our lender clients on the application of certain investor side letter provisions on the collateral package...

On 30 April 2026, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (the Court) issued its long-awaited decision in Borough of West Chester v. Pa. State System of Higher Education & West Chester University.

On 1 January 2024, Foreign State Immunity Law of The People's Republic of China ("FSIL") came into effect, changing and clarifying the position of sovereign immunity under the laws of Hong Kong and mainland China.

In Texaco, Inc. v. Dagher, decided on February 28, 2006, the Supreme Court unanimously held that an economically integrated joint venture may set a single price for its own products sold under the separate brand names of the venture’s members without thereby engaging in unlawful price fixing.

On October 1, 2020, the SDNY District Court issued an important ruling in U.S. v. Halkbank, holding that foreign state-owned entities ("SOEs") can be subject to criminal jurisdiction

The recently concluded Supreme Court term was an exciting one for environmental lawyers, as the Court in Guam v. United States made a rare foray into interpreting the Comprehensive Environmental Response...

The plaintiffs in Jam asserted that the Tata Mundra power plant in Gujarat, India, caused substantial environmental harms. They sued not the plant's owner-operator but one of its lenders...

One generally cannot sue a foreign state in a U.S. court because the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) presumptively shields foreign states from suit. But the FSIA also sets out narrow exceptions to that presumptive.

On February 4, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit effectively ruled that foreign states and their agencies and instrumentalities may be sued under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that because Indian tribes are indisputably governments, the Bankruptcy Code unmistakably abrogates their sovereign immunity to bankruptcy court proceedings.

On June 15, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Bankruptcy Code barred an Indian tribe's attempts to collect on a defaulted debt from a Chapter 13 debtor.

Gensetix sued Baylor College of Medicine for infringement of the patents-in-suit and requested that UT voluntarily join the suit as a co-plaintiff.

A subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives approved three bills on July 15, 2008, that would amend or restrict the Federal Arbitration Act.

On March 23, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a per curiam decision in Zorn v. Linton, 607 U.S. __ (2026), reversing the Second Circuit and reaffirming a foundational principle of qualified immunity jurisprudence...

On June 23, 2004, President Bush signed a bill that substantially modifies individuals' and corporations' potential exposure for antitrust violations - increasing the maximum sanctions in certain circumstances and reducing penalties in others.

This week, the Court considers the President's authority under the Antiquities Act to preclude logging on federal lands that another federal statute contemplated would generally be used as timberlands...