Commercial Contracts

  • October 23, 2025

    $5M Lindell Arbitration Fight Submitted For High Court Review

    A software developer trying to revive his $5 million arbitral award against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he is urging the justices to finally resolve whether manifest disregard of the law is a valid basis on which arbitral awards may be vacated.

  • October 23, 2025

    RingConn Settles With Oura After ITC Import Ban

    Ouraring Inc. has inked a deal allowing RingConn to keep its smart rings on the U.S. market following the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to block Ultrahuman and RingConn from importing products it held infringed a wearable computing device patent.

  • October 23, 2025

    Conn. Judge Awards $71K Fees In 'Minute Entry' Appeal Loss

    A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday awarded $71,050 in attorney fees to a company that defeated a Second Circuit challenge questioning whether an oral ruling and a "minute entry" were real judicial decisions that triggered a 30-day appeal deadline, finding the charges reasonable.

  • October 23, 2025

    Ex-Exec Accused Of Stealing IVF Co.'s Trade Secrets

    The co-founder of a Garden State genetic testing company abruptly quit, deleted all the data on his company laptop — including the only copy of some materials — then took the trade secrets to help a competitor, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey federal court.

  • October 23, 2025

    Electric Co. Says Contractor Owes $5M For Denver Airport Job

    An electric infrastructure company accused a contractor in Colorado state court Wednesday of withholding over $5 million in payments for work completed in an expansion project at the Denver International Airport.

  • October 23, 2025

    Columbia University Wants Out Of Sportswear Trademark Suit

    Columbia University has asked an Oregon federal judge to toss a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Columbia Sportswear, saying it had been using the name for about 200 years prior to the sportswear company putting it on a shirt.

  • October 23, 2025

    Eli Lilly Says Pharmacy Mass-Producing Weight Loss Drug

    Drugmaker Eli Lilly is suing a compounding pharmacy in Texas federal court, alleging the pharmacy ripped off its lucrative weight loss drug, began mass-producing it, and made as much as $2 million per month last year from its misdeeds.

  • October 23, 2025

    Conference Set In Discovery Fight Amid $900K Fee Dispute

    A Connecticut state judge has called a status conference but denied a request for an "urgent" evidentiary hearing in a fee dispute between two law firms stemming from a $900,000 personal injury settlement, noting in an order that the conference would be held to discuss outstanding discovery issues ahead of trial.

  • October 23, 2025

    Avadel, Jazz Settle Sleep Disorder Drug Claims

    Avadel Pharmaceuticals has announced it reached a global settlement with Irish rival Jazz Pharmaceuticals to dismiss their lawsuits against each other that alleged patent and antitrust violations related to sleep disorder drug Lumryz.

  • October 23, 2025

    Shipbuilder Can't Ax Md. Bridge Collapse Suit, Court Told

    The Singaporean owner and manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and triggered its collapse maintained that South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. should be held accountable in Pennsylvania federal court for designing and building a "fatally flawed" ship.

  • October 22, 2025

    Blake Lively Seeks Sanctions Over 'Untraceable' Messages

    Blake Lively told a New York federal judge Wednesday her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni, his production company and other defendants in her defamation case should be sanctioned for using Signal's auto-delete function in an attempt to erase evidence of their alleged retaliatory smear campaign against the actress.

  • October 22, 2025

    Meta Beats False Ad Suit Over Bricked Devices, For Now

    A California federal judge indicated Wednesday that he'll toss a proposed class action alleging Meta deceptively sold Portal video-calling devices that it later "bricked" by dropping software support, but he allowed the buyers to amend their claims, saying Meta's decision to strip the devices of functionality "seems wrong."

  • October 22, 2025

    Phillips 66 Can't Undo $805M Trade Secrets Trial Loss

    Phillips 66 can't get a new trial after its $805 million loss on claims it stole startup Propel Fuels' intellectual property during due diligence for an acquisition, a California state judge has ruled, saying the jury's findings, including malicious misconduct, are well-supported.

  • October 22, 2025

    Bristol-Myers $450M Payment Dispute Heads To Arbitration

    A judge sitting for Delaware's Court of Chancery has sent to arbitration allegations from shareholders of a small biotechnology company acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb that the pharmaceutical giant used trickery to avoid paying up to $450 million in milestone payments.

  • October 22, 2025

    Origins Tech Settles $4M Suit Over Canceled Pot License

    Cannabis brand holding and investment company Origins Tech Inc. has settled its legal fight with a Utah cannabis retailer, with both agreeing to drop claims and counterclaims alleging nearly $1 million in unpaid loans and breached contracts.

  • October 22, 2025

    StubHub Says Swift Fan Must Arbitrate Eras Tour Tickets Suit

    StubHub Holdings Inc. urged a Washington federal judge on Wednesday to force arbitration in a customer's proposed class action, contending the plaintiff launched the lawsuit after the company began arbitrating her claims that it failed to deliver on $14,000 worth of tickets she purchased for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

  • October 22, 2025

    Strava Drops Patent Suit Against Garmin Weeks After Filing

    Fitness app company Strava has agreed to drop a lawsuit filed last month accusing wearable device maker Garmin of infringing a trio of GPS patents for defining segments of road and mapping routes.

  • October 22, 2025

    Airline Groups Ask 5th Circ. To Ground In-Flight Death Suit

    Airline industry trade groups told the Fifth Circuit that airlines should have the flexibility to assess and respond to passengers' in-flight medical emergencies, not be subjected to a rigid, one-size-fits all rule when there are myriad complicating factors that might influence their response.

  • October 22, 2025

    UBS Urges Justices Not To Revive Retaliation Case Again

    UBS Securities is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to revive, for a second time, a fired worker's whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, arguing that lower courts should be allowed to consider questions about jury instructions regarding the meaning of "contributing factor" in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act before the high court weighs in.

  • October 22, 2025

    Texas Appeals Court Wipes $64M Judgment For Dallas Lender

    A Texas appellate court wiped away a $64 million award to the subsidiary of a Dallas investment company following alleged fraud by Credit Suisse surrounding lending for a luxury Nevada community, saying the lower court improperly found that the subsidiary could collect damages above zero dollars.

  • October 22, 2025

    6th Circ. Backs Lordstown Execs In Failed Foxconn Deal Suit

    The Sixth Circuit has upheld the dismissal of a suit claiming former executives of Lordstown Motors Corp. misled investors about the state of a partnership with Foxconn Technology Group, finding leaders' optimism about the ultimately failed deal wasn't intentionally false.

  • October 22, 2025

    Sinkhole Coverage Dispute Up To Jury To Decide, Judge Says

    A construction company and its insurer must go to trial over whether the company's invitation to a mediation constituted a defense tender for a now-settled counterclaim relating to a sinkhole discovered in December 2022 at a Seattle ship canal project, a Washington federal court ruled.

  • October 22, 2025

    NC Biz Court Bulletin: COVID Coverage, A Suspect Signature

    The North Carolina Business Court has rounded the corner into fall with insurance disputes over COVID-19 coverage at a chain of outlet malls and the theft of over $900,000 in legal THC reportedly stolen from a warehouse in the Southwest.

  • October 22, 2025

    Mass. Cannabis Lab's Suit Against Rivals Trimmed

    A Massachusetts state judge will allow a cannabis testing lab to pursue unfair competition claims against more than half a dozen competitors it accuses of fudging potency and purity test results to lure growers to their businesses, but not claims of unjust enrichment or tortious interference.

  • October 21, 2025

    Anesthesia Giant Cuts Deals To End Hospital Antitrust Cases

    North America's largest anesthesia provider has reached settlements ending antitrust claims from hospitals in New York and Florida as well as counterclaims accusing the hospitals of illegally recruiting away clinicians, according to court filings.

Expert Analysis

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    Writing Novels Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Writing my debut novel taught me to appreciate the value of critique and to never give up, no matter how long or tedious the journey, providing me with valuable skills that I now emphasize in my practice, says Daniel Buzzetta at BakerHostetler.

  • SDNY OpenAI Order Clarifies Preservation Standards For AI

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    The Southern District of New York’s recent order in the OpenAI copyright infringement litigation, denying discovery of The New York Times' artificial intelligence technology use, clarifies that traditional preservation benchmarks apply to AI content, relieving organizations from using a “keep everything” approach, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.

  • In NY, Long COVID (Tolling) Still Applies

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    A series of pandemic-era executive orders in New York tolling state statutes of limitations for 228 days mean that many causes of action that appear time-barred on their face may continue to apply, including in federal practice, for the foreseeable future, say attorneys at Sher Tremonte.

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    High Court, Not A Single Justice, Should Decide On Recusal

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    As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to decline, the court should adopt a collegial framework in which all justices decide questions of recusal together — a reform that respects both judicial independence and due process for litigants, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • FTC's Consumer Finance Pivot Brings Industry Pros And Cons

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    An active Federal Trade Commission against the backdrop of a leashed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be welcomed by most in the consumer finance industry, but the incremental expansion of the FTC's authority via enforcement actions remains a risk, say attorneys at Hudson Cook.

  • Amazon Ruling Marks New Era Of Personal Liability For Execs

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    A Washington federal court's recent decision in FTC v. Amazon extended personal liability to senior executives for design-driven violations of broad consumer protection statutes, signaling a fundamental shift in how consumer protection laws may be enforced against large public companies, say attorneys at Orrick.

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    Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

  • Opinion

    Courts Must Continue Protecting Plaintiffs In Mass Arbitration

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    In recent years, many companies have imposed onerous protocols that function to frustrate plaintiffs' ability to seek justice through mass arbitration, but a series of welcome court decisions in recent months indicate that the pendulum might be swinging back toward plaintiffs, say Raphael Janove and Sasha Jones at Janove Law.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Client Service

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    Law school teaches you how to interpret the law, but it doesn't teach you some of the key ways to keeping clients satisfied, lessons that I've learned in the most unexpected of places: a book on how to be a butler, says Gregory Ramos at Armstrong Teasdale.

  • How The FTC Is Stepping Up Subscription Enforcement

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    Despite the demise of the Federal Trade Commission's click-to-cancel rule in July, the commission has not only maintained its regulatory momentum, but also set new compliance benchmarks through recent high-profile settlements with Match.com, Chegg and Amazon, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Enter The Wu-Tang Ruling That May Change Trade Secret Law

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    A New York federal court's recent holding that a Wu-Tang Clan album qualifies as a trade secret provides the first federal framework for analyzing trade secret claims involving assets valued primarily for exclusivity, potentially reshaping Defend Trade Secrets Act jurisprudence for the digital economy, says Jason Bradford at Jenner & Block.

  • Where 4th And 9th Circ. Diverge On Trade Secret Timing

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    Recent Fourth and Ninth Circuit decisions have revealed a deepening circuit split over when plaintiffs must specifically define their alleged trade secrets, turning the early stages of trade secret litigation into a key battleground and elevating the importance of forum selection, say attorneys at Skadden.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job

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    After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.

  • Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI

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    Jillian Taylor at Blank Rome examines how existing right-of-publicity law governs artificial intelligence-generated voice-overs, deepfakes and deadbots; highlights a recent New York federal court ruling involving AI-generated voice clones; and offers practical guardrails for using AI without violating the right of publicity.

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    Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

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