In Garcia v. Mercedes-Benz USA, Inc., a California Court of Appeal declined to award attorney's fees to a plaintiff pursuant to the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act when the plaintiff claimed she had prevailed...

This week, we're looking at the relationship between lag time – the number of days from the grant of review by the Supreme Court to the final decision – and the result in the case.

This time, we're reviewing the share of appeals accounted for by final judgments in the 1990s. As a reminder, we're defining "criminal" broadly to include quasi-criminal cases such as habeas corpus...

Yesterday, we showed that Justice Garman has voted with the minority in 6.84% of her civil cases since joining the Court, slightly below Chief Justice Burke's percentage.

Last time, we reviewed the data on the civil side for the years 1990-1999, looking at whether amici supporting appellants or appellees more frequently won in each area of civil law.

As a result, they allege they suffered a direct physical loss because their properties lost their function of generating business income due to the pandemic and COVID-19.

The district court agreed with the defendant across the board, and on Wednesday of last week, so did the Eleventh Circuit.

A dissent below was a far stronger indicator of the likelihood of reversal at the Supreme Court in criminal cases between 1990 and 1999 than it was on the civil side. For the entire period, 63.51% ...

Congress passed Title III of the Helms-Burton Act in 1996 to scare investors away from Cuba by allowing US nationals to sue any persons or entities that "traffic" in property confiscated by the Castro regime.

We invite you to explore the articles in depth and welcome the opportunity to help you navigate the MDL process.

When a prime contractor-subcontractor dispute emerges in government contracting, the initial response can determine the entire trajectory of the case. This analysis explores the critical actions in-house counsel must take within the first 72 hours, from identifying time-sensitive deadlines to building a contemporaneous record that can make or break your position in what are often the most complex disputes in the industry.

On April 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Schutte v. SuperValu and Proctor v. Safeway, two qui tam cases raising significant questions about the knowledge...

Last time, we looked at the data for the years 2000 through 2009 on the civil side

This time, we're wrapping up this multi-part post, reviewing the trial court data for the civil cases from the Fifth District between 2020 and 2022.

This time, we're wrapping up our four-part post by reviewing the county-by-county data for the first third of the current decade: 2020-2022.

Text messaging, chat platforms, and ephemeral messaging apps have long been central modes of communication for many professionals...

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EA sought summary judgment on the plaintiffs' § 3344 claims on the ground that EA had not used the players' likenesses, as defined in § 3344.

In this episode of TMT Time, Evan Rothstein and Dori Hanswirth take a look at the use of trademarks in videogames like Call of Duty and the use of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" title in a Netflix show.

On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has finalized amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (the COPPA Rule). Any organization that collects, uses.