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In Cayuga Indian Nation of New York v. Seneca County, New York, 2020 WL 6253332 (2d Cir. 2020), the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York had purchased land in Seneca County in 2007.

The Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision with implications for Tribal-State relations and the resolution of disputes under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

On October 1, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ("SDNY") issued an important ruling in U.S. v. Halkbank, holding that...

Since May 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued three decisions addressing or potentially impacting issues of bankruptcy law. These included rulings concerning the abrogation...

Can a workout method be protected as choreography under federal copyright law? The Ninth Circuit recently said no.

Bankruptcy trustees and chapter 11 debtors-in-possession ("DIPs") frequently seek to avoid fraudulent transfers and obligations under section 544(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and state fraudulent transfer or other applicable nonbankruptcy laws because the statutory "look-back".

In the Public Interest is excited to continue In That Case, its third annual miniseries examining notable decisions recently issued by the US Supreme Court.

The liability of the carrier is one of the most important issues in maritime collision law. This article considers an oft-overlooked but nonetheless important aspect of collision liability: Both-to-blame clauses and their operation when collisions occur on United States territorial waters, and, in particular, the issues that confronted the federal district court in considering such a clause’s application in <I>In re Complaint of Murmansk Shipping Co.,</I> 2001 WL 699530 (E.D. La. 2001)

Recent federal court decisions are reshaping the landscape of personal jurisdiction and enforcement of international arbitration awards following the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization. The DC and Ninth Circuits have issued critical opinions clarifying how Fifth Amendment due process standards apply differently than traditional Fourteenth Amendment minimum contacts analysis, particularly in cases involving foreign sovereigns and international arbitration. These deve

The Supreme Court ruled that tribal sovereign immunity bars Michigan’s suit against the Bay Mills Indian Community for opening a casino outside Indian lands.

The U.S. Supreme Court kicks off the latest session with transportation issues early up on the calendar. On January 14, 2026, the High Court will hear oral arguments on whether New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit)...

On March 31, 2005, the Antitrust Modernization Commission ("Commission"), as part of its statutory mandate to examine whether the U.S. antitrust laws need to be modernized, released a projected timetable for the remaining two years of its work, which will culminate in the issuance of a report to Congress and the President in April 2007.

The third quarter of 2018 saw the resolution of some lingering uncertainties from Q2, as judicial rulings and proposed reforms set the stage for additional changes to the patent ecosystem in the months ahead.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals' August 2024 decision in NextEra Energy v. Spain1 is reshaping the enforcement landscape for arbitral awards in US courts, particularly for awards arising from intra-EU...

A submarine owned by a US marine research facility and to be loaned to the Australian National Maritime Museum was damaged by fire while en route to Australia on one of Anderson's trucks.

In a pair of near identical decisions issued on December 19, 2017, an expanded PTAB panel found that the Regents of the University of Minnesota had waived its defense of sovereign immunity ...

When do commercial activities in the United States strip foreign states and state-owned entities of sovereign immunity and subject them to jurisdiction in U.S. courts?