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Terror Victims' $656M Judgment Reinstated By 2nd Circ.
By Craig Clough
The Second Circuit on Monday granted a renewed motion by victims injured in some terrorist attacks in Israel and their families to reinstate their $644 million jury judgment from 2015 over the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, finding a 2019 law applies retroactively and creates jurisdiction for the trial court.
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Trade Group Backs Insurers In Tanger's COVID Coverage Row
By Abigail Harrison
The trade organization American Property Casualty Insurance Association is urging North Carolina's justices to reverse an order adverse to a pair of insurers in a $50 million COVID-19 coverage fight, arguing in an amicus brief that the order permits the "absurd" result of one of the state's statutes and its case law applying nationwide.
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EXPERT ANALYSIS
How A High Court Music Piracy Ruling Shrinks ISP Liability
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion in Cox Communications Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, which concerned the boundaries of contributory copyright infringement for internet service providers, dramatically lessens both the risk that an ISP will be held contributorily liable and, relatedly, the incentives an ISP may have to help combat online copyright infringement, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Del. Blackbaud Ruling Signals A New Era For Cyberinsurance
The recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling in Travelers v. Blackbaud shows that cyberinsurance is moving into a second maturity phase, in which insurers will increasingly attempt to recover their payments from vendors and insureds will face new pressure to justify cyber incident reimbursements, say Steven Teppler at Mandelbaum Barrett and Jade Davis at Shumaker.
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AI Presents A Make-Or-Break Moment For Outside Counsel
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by corporate legal departments is forcing a long-overdue reset of the relationship between inside and outside counsel, and introducing a significant opportunity to shed frustrating inefficiencies and strengthen collaboration for firms willing to embrace the shift, says Intel Chief Legal Officer April Miller Boise.
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LEGAL INDUSTRY
Blumenthal Presses DHS Chief To Scrap ICE Warrant Memo
By Courtney Bublé
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is looking for assurances from the newly installed secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, that he will honor his apparent pledge to rescind a policy that allows immigration agents to enter private property without a judicial warrant.
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