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Amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure are set to take effect on December 1, 2016.

The Ninth Circuit's reversal in Rusoff v. The Happy Group examines whether egg carton labels claiming "free range" and "pasture raised on over 8 acres" can support class certification when plaintiffs fail to prove a dominant industry standard exists.

In appraisal actions, expert witnesses are often retained by parties and serve very important roles in the determination of the value of a company’s shares.

Federal False Claims Act recoveries in fiscal year 2018 amounted to $2.88 billion, down by roughly $600 million from the prior year and dropping below $3 billion for the first time in eight years.

On June 27, 2023, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals denied OnePlus Technology's petition for a writ of mandamus, which sought to vacate the district court's denial of a motion to transfer.

A New York payment processor successfully defended one personal jurisdiction challenge, but lost the other in the Northern District of Texas.

On 21 November 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Court) ruled against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in two separate cases, vacating its rule which expanded...

As we recently blogged about, in January the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Rule 68 ‘pick off' strategy in its Campbell-Edwald decision.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that vacated critical portions of the surprise billing independent dispute resolution (IDR) provisions...

On October 18, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") gave notice that it would appeal a Texas federal court's decision halting its non-compete rule (the "Rule") from taking effect as to all employers nationwide.

In Table 167 below, we report the mean number of days, year by year, from grant of review to oral argument in civil cases.

The Worcester Business Journal published "How prejudgment attachments impact your leverage" by Jared Fiore.

Do you ever wonder what will endear you to a judge – or not?

On August 19, 2025, the Illinois General Assembly enacted Public Act 1738 (SB 1738), amending several provisions of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5) to raise debtor exemption limits effective January 1, 2026.

There is a new rule of evidence in New Jersey that seeks to clarify the plethora of privileges governing confidential communications between mental health service providers and patients suffering from mental or emotional health conditions.

Our data contains 128 affirmances and 136 reversals between 2010 and 2016.

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