Last week, we looked at how often the Justices voted with the majority in death penalty appeals, regardless of whether the decision was to affirm, reverse in part while affirming the sentence...

This week, we're continuing our comparative analysis of the death penalty appeal cases, both here and over at the Illinois Supreme Court Review.

Last week, we examined whether winning parties tended to average more amicus support in civil cases between 1994 and 2016.

On August 29, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, Jed S. Rakoff, dismissed Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. The case was filed in June 2017. Judge Rakoff stated that Ms. Palin's complaint failed to show that a mistake in an editorial was made maliciously.

Yesterday, for post no. 1,000 we reviewed the academic literature on question-counting in oral arguments, and began comparing the past year, May 2016-May 2017, at the California and Illinois Supreme Courts.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held that the Google brand continues to enjoy trademark protection, notwithstanding that the word "google" has entered (maybe stormed) the popular lexicon to describe the act of searching for information on the internet.

On February 16, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court declined to adopt the Daubert standard for the admissibility of expert evidence into the Florida Evidence Code to the extent it is procedural in nature.

In a long-awaited decision (at least by the parties and fidelity law practitioners) the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a "Computer Fraud" Insuring Agreement in a Crime Insurance Policy does not cover the insured's loss after its employees were tricked into wiring approximately $7 million to a fraudulent bank account set up by criminals posing as one of the insured's trusted vendors.

Yesterday, we reviewed the individual Justices' voting records in death penalty appeals for the years 1994 through 2005.

Chanel, a billion-dollar fashion company that produces and sells luxury consumer products, identifies its products by the "Chanel" trademark and the "CC Monogram" trademark, which consists of two interlocking...

Cyber risks are among the most pervasive risk s of our time. They impact all industries that purchase insurance, and all lines of insurance.

All of us who often speak and write about the ongoing revolution in data analytics for litigation have heard it from at least some of our fellow lawyers: "Interesting, but so what?"

Litigation funding is growing rapidly with the emergence of new funds and wealthy individuals willing to back cases in an ever-expanding number of jurisdictions, including in the US and the UK. It is enabling claims to be brought by private individuals and small to medium sized companies with limited resources.

The Federal False Claims Act -- 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733 (the ‘‘FCA'') permits private plaintiffs to pursue claims on behalf of, and sometimes with the intervention of, the U.S. Department of Justice (‘‘DOJ''), against those presenting fraudulent claims for payment to the government.

New York's highest court delivered one of the most notable opinions in years when it put a dent in the pro-rata regime for allocation of loss that occurs over multiple policy periods.

Produced water should be viewed as an environmental asset— part of the water resource solution—not as a waste that contributes to environmental problems; its treatment and reuse can reduce the stress on fresh water resources.

In all insurance matters, all persons owe a duty of good faith, to abstain from deception, to practice honesty and equity, and to preserve inviolate the integrity of insurance.