Litigation

Chasing clients for legal fees can be a complex matter, and the Clinton recording masters dispute has as many twists and turns as the polyrhythms on a funk track.

Management Company Gets Preliminary Injunction to Block Use of Artist Name It Created
New York Federal Judge Sees No Substantial Similarity Between Plaintiff's Rap Song and Usher's R&B Song
Pennsylvania Federal Court Finds Songwriter Gave Usher Implied License

With eye-popping damages at stake, a federal magistrate refused to allow consumer plaintiffs to move forward as a class with claims that Hulu violated their privacy by sharing the videos they viewed.

In Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., a unanimous Supreme Court held that the test for patent claim definiteness in 35 U.S.C. '112, '2 (2006) "require[s] that a patent's claims, viewed in light of the specification and prosecution history, inform those skilled in the art about the scope of the invention with reasonable certainty."

An in-depth look at various key cases.

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon be grappling with classic First Amendment principles in the modern-day social-media context of a case involving threatening posts on Facebook.

The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Civil Rules has proposed another round of Rules amendments. If enacted, the resulting package of amendments could affect most aspects of federal discovery practice and possibly decrease eDiscovery burdens and costs for courts, clients, and counsel alike.

Becoming the next Target can be toxic for companies, particularly those in the finance, health-care and retail sectors, which usually collect and store customers' personally identifiable information (PII).