Debra Herman is the author of the U.S. Supreme Court Update, a monthly column for Thomson Reuters Checkpoint's Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives.

In University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. v. General Electric Company, No. 18-1284 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 26, 2019),

Jana Simmons (Of Counsel-Michigan) co-authored "Tribal Sovereign Immunity, Its Origins and Development," the first in a series of articles to be provided by DRI's Native Nations Law Task Force.

The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. §1602 et seq. (FSIA), is silent on the issue of criminal immunity for foreign sovereigns.

The plaintiff was injured during a charity bike ride through the City of Philadelphia when he rode into a known, unmarked and un-barricaded sinkhole.

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.

A pedestrian brought a personal injury action against political subdivisions after falling while walking on a sidewalk in front of a public housing development around midnight.

On July 5, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court decision from the Eastern District of Michigan regarding a "John Doe" ...

James Koukios speaks with Tim Blakely, Dan Levison, and Chen Zhu about what to expect from U.S. enforcement in Asia under the upcoming Biden Administration.

In 1990, Congress passed the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act ("CRCA"), and in 1992 passed the Trademark Remedy Clarification Act ("TRCA") and the Patent and Plant Variety Protection Remedy Clarification Act.

This morning, the United States Supreme Court granted the U.S. government's certiorari petition in U.S. v. David L. Miller Order List (06/24/2024) (supremecourt.gov).

In University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. v. General Electric Company, No. 18-1284 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 26, 2019),

In Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corp., Nos. 18-1559 et al. (Fed. Cir. June 14, 2019), the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB's decision

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (the Tribe) in New York viewed these decisions as a business opportunity. Assuming its tribal government sovereign immunity would bar exposure to any IPR proceeding...

Hardy acquired an interest in a joint venture between the Government of India and private companies for the development of oil and gas reserves off the coast of India.

The U.S. chapter is part of the new guide to cross-border enforcement of judgments against state released by the International Bar Association.

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Foreign sovereigns frequently engage in real estate transactions in the US, ranging from embassies and consulates leasing property for their offices to sovereign wealth funds investing in real estate.

On October 7, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Argentina’s petition for the court to review a October 26, 2012 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (see NML Capital, Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina, 699 F.3d 246 (2d Cir. 2012)) upholding a lower court’s orders barring Argentina from paying holders of debt restructured in 2005 and 2010 without also paying in full holdout bondholders holding $1.5 billion in defaulted bonds

The Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA") does not apply to criminal prosecutions, but left open the possibility that instrumentalities of foreign states ...