With urging from Facebook, Craigslist, eBay and others, the Ninth Circuit has agreed to reconsider a controversial ruling about website operators' duty to warn about potential harm by third parties.
February 27, 2015Scott Graham
A teacher in Union Township in Union County, NJ, who faced tenure charges over her anti-gay postings on Facebook can proceed with her civil rights suit against the school district, a federal judge in Newark has ruled.
February 27, 2015Charles ToutantA Philadelphia jury on Feb. 24 awarded $2.5 million to the plaintiff in the first of roughly 1,250 Risperdal mass-tort cases in the city's courts.
February 24, 2015P.J. D'AnnunzioDiscussion of a recent ruling from New Jersey.
January 31, 2015ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |A federal judge in Newark dismissed multidistrict litigation against Google Inc. and Viacom Inc. in rejecting claims that the companies' online data collection violates the privacy of children under 13.
January 31, 2015Charles ToutantTexas Court of Appeals Upholds Ruling for Lawyer Defendant in Malpractice Suit over TV Network Stock Dispute
TV Executive Can't Get Punitive Damages from Alleged Fraud in HiringJanuary 31, 2015Stan SoocherTypically, the production of data in litigation involves a series of disconnected actions involving several corporate or cloud-based systems. These disassociated e-discovery activities ' identify, preserve, collect, and track (IPCT) ' are then feed into a downstream set of processing, review, and production (PRP) steps often hosted outside the corporate firewall. Fortunately, technology advances are helping counsel and client alike to integrate systems and streamline processes both inside and across the firewall.
January 31, 2015Josh Alpern, James FitzGerald and Jim MittenthalRare Franchisee Judicial Victory Sets Dangerous Precedent for Franchisors
January 31, 2015Rupert BarkoffOn Dec. 5, 2014, a divided Federal Circuit panel held that claims directed to systems and methods of generating a composite Web page combining certain visual elements of a "host" website with content of a third-party merchant were "necessarily rooted in computer technology in order to overcome a problem specifically arising in the realm of computer networks," and, therefore, were patent-eligible. However, the court cautioned that not all claims addressing Internet-centric challenges are patent-eligible.
January 31, 2015Clyde ShumanPriority of use is a hallmark of trademark law. Over the years, lower courts have recognized a doctrine called "tacking," under which a trademark owner may "clothe a new mark with the priority position of an older mark." The key to the tacking doctrine is that the new trademark must "create the same, continuing commercial impression" as the old mark. In Hana Financial, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the question and settled the circuit split, holding that tacking is a question for the jury.
January 31, 2015Rhojonda A. Debrow Cornett