While the wave of credit-crisis related litigation ended in 2012, and the spate of cases with Chinese defendants also abated, merger objection cases continued to fill in much of the gap.

Smart Grid and broadband deployment have become national priorities—the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes a combined total of about $11 billion to fund Smart Grid and broadband projects.

NERA has developed a proprietary database of settlements and judgments in SEC enforcement actions since Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX") by reviewing every litigation release and administrative proceeding document published since July 21, 2002. This paper provides an update on trends in the number of settlements and settlement values in fiscal year 2011 ("FY11").

Product liability refers to legal claims in which an injured party may recover some type of monetary compensation from the manufacturer or seller of a product.

National Energy Resources Australia rates Australia below world average for the abandonment phase of project lifecycles.

2013 was marked by contrasting approaches as motions judges grappled with complex preliminary matters that arose in securities class actions.

Securities class action filings have hit record highs in the United States. In 2016, the United States observed the highest number of securities class action filings since "the early 2000s dot-com crash.

Class action litigation is on the rise in the food industry. The jurisdictions that still see the majority of federal class action filings are California, New York, Illinois and Florida.

On May 20, 2024, Judge Albright issued an order granting Micron Technology, Inc.'s (Micron) request to amend its invalidity contentions "to include U.S. Patent No. 7,397,713...

As both consumers and advertising lawyers know, there are many ways that unscrupulous advertisers mislead their target audience: they tout false claims about their products, make misleading price...

A review of asbestos-related liabilities reported in companies’ SEC filings.

The increased national and international interest in emissions trading is largely based on concern about climate change and a consensus that GHGs are well suited to a cap-and-trade program.

Emissions trading has emerged over the last decade as a major tool for controlling air pollution and climate change in both the United States and Europe.

As modern day business practices evolve, the scope of director and officer liability expands. Directors and officers have a common law and statutory duty to exercise reasonable care and diligence

On August 3, the Obama Administration released the much anticipated final Clean Power Plan (CPP). The nation's first ever standard to address power plan pollution has an ambitious overall goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 32% from 2005 levels by 2030.

A defendant company in China cannot, as a starting point, be served a complaint via a company within the same group in a Contracting Member State

Era il 1864 (pare … poiché la storia, si sa, spesso si fonde con la leggenda) quando un giovanissimo Jasper Newton Daniel, ai più noto semplicemente come "Jack", presentò per la prima volta al pubblico il suo whiskey ...

In a ruling on February 13, the FTC unconditionally approved the Zillow-Trulia merger after an intensive six-month antitrust review.

Since 2007, the losses and write-downs resulting from the credit crisis have reached over $2 trillion worldwide.

The subprime mortgage market consists of loans to borrowers with high credit risk, and the mechanisms that have evolved to originate, service, and finance those loans. While this market has existed since the early 1980s, it was not until the mid-1990s that the growth of the subprime industry gained significant momentum.