In a move with implications for all retailers that sell products under their own brand names in the State of Washington, Division 1 of Washington’s Court of Appeals has agreed to hear an interlocutory appeal in Monika Johnson v. Recreational Equipment, Inc., Case No. 65463-2-1.

On April 8, 2025, Judge M. Casey Rodgers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled that the majority of claims...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss a copyright infringement suit on the ground of sovereign immunity...

The two primary U.S. agencies charged with administering and enforcing U.S. sanctions and export control policies are the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).

Last week, Magistrate Judge Cave ruled that the New York Attorney General's Office was protected from having to comply with a document subpoena under Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity...

Mark and Kian return to discuss two of the Seventh Circuit's March 2024 opinions.

In Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation, 146 S. Ct. 854 (2026), the United States Supreme Court held that New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) is not an arm of the state of New Jersey and is therefore not entitled to New Jersey’s interstate sovereign immunity.

On May 24, 2021, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a unanimous decision for the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Territory of Guam v The United States, brought on behalf of Guam...

In a January 10, 2019, decision, the US District Court for the District of Arizona granted summary judgment to Defendants because Relators failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact on the issue of "knowledge" ...

In the Tennant v. Range Res. Appalachia decision issued on Sept. 21, 2021, Judge Hardy of the Western District of Pennsylvania determined...

In a 5-4 ruling decided on June 29, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court in PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC v. New Jersey et al. affirmed the rights of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)...

In a case of first impression, the Connecticut Supreme Court recently held that that (1) an entity claiming "arm of the tribe" status for purposes of tribal sovereign immunity bears the burden of proving entitlement to that status;

The Supreme Court is set to hear the case of Allen v. Cooper which addresses the constitutionality of the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act ("CRCA").

After concluding that a trademark owner's case for failure to add a necessary party was untenable, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court's dismissal of the case...

On July 13, 2023, the plaintiffs in Indiana Mun. Power Agency v. United States filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court for review of a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals...

On January 17, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. This case involves the U.S. prosecution of Halkbank, a commercial bank majority-owned by Turkey.

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation, 607 U.S. ___ (2026).

It is not often that the False Claims Act (FCA) encounters a gating issue like tribal sovereign immunity, but late last month, the Seventh Circuit published an insightful opinion highlighting the boundaries...

This week, the Ninth Circuit takes a deep look at tribal sovereign immunity.

A notable decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has significant ramifications for companies defending against Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") claims.