• February 23, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

    Big-Dollar Biometric Settlements Emboldening Plaintiffs Attorneys to Bring More Cases

    "I think we're just scratching the surface," Winston and Strawn partner Sean Wieber said of biometric privacy lawsuits.

    7 minute read

  • February 22, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal

    On the Contrary: Appeals Court Declines to Extend 'Glassman' to Joint Tortfeasor Cases

    In a published opinion, the New Jersey Appellate Division held that judicial estoppel does not prevent a plaintiff from reversing a position on the negligence of a settling joint tortfeasor at trial.

    6 minute read

  • February 22, 2023 | Supreme Court Brief

    Supreme Court Brief: Justices Begin Their Look at Section 230 | Plus: No New Cert Grants

    After hours of oral argument, the future of YouTube and other platforms' liability for content management before the U.S. Supreme Court was no more clear Tuesday than when the dispute was first filed.

    6 minute read

  • February 16, 2023 | Law.com

    Higher Law: The DEA's Take on THCO | A Med Mal, Pot and Fraud Case | New State Cannabis Regulators |Twitter's New Rules for Cannabis Ads

    THCO may have ties to hemp, but it's still a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act, the DEA said.

    7 minute read

  • In re: LTL Mgmt., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-02-13
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice Ambro
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melanie L. Cyganowski, Adam C. Silverstein (Otterbourg); Angelo J. Genova (Genova Burns); Jeffrey A. Lamken (MoloLamken); Jonathan S. Massey (Massey & Gail); David J. Molton, Michael S. Winograd (Brown Rudnick); Mathew I.W. Maker (Genova Burns); Sunni P. Beville, Shari I. Dwoskin, Jeffrey L. Jonas (Brown Rudnick); Donald W. Clarke (Wasserman, Jurista & Stolz); Daniel Stolz (Genova Burns LLC); Jennifer S. Feeney (Otterbourg); Leonard M. Parkins, Charles M. Rubio (Parkins & Rubio); Robter J. Stark (Brown Rudnick); Ellen Relkin (Weitz & Luxemberg); Deepak Gupta, Jonathan E. Taylor, Matthew W.H. Wessler (Gupta Wessler); Jerome Block, Amber Long, Moshe Maimon (Levy Konigsberg); John M. August (Saiber); Suzanne Ratcliffe, Clay Thompson (Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd); David A. Chandler (Karst & von Oiste); Jeffrey M. Dine, Karen B. Dine (Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones); Mathew Drecum, David c. Frederick, Ariela Migdal, Gregory G. Rapawy (Kellog Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick); Laura D. Jones, Peter J. Keane, Colin R. Robinson (Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones); Isaac M. Pachulski (Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones); Samuel M. Kidder, Nir Maoz, Robert J. Pfister, Michael L. Tuchin (Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern); Paul J. Winterhalter (Offit Kurman); Allen J. Underwood, II (Lite, DePalma, Greenberg & Afanador); Mark Tsuker (Cole Schotz); Felice C. Yudkin (Cole Schotz); Arthur J. Abramowitz, Alan I. Moldoff, Ross J. Switkes (Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky); Kevin W. Barrett, Maigreade B. Burrus (Bailey & Glasser); Thomas B. Bennett, Brian A. Glasser (Bailey & Glasser); Michael Klein, Evan M. Lazerowitz, Lauren A. Reichartdt, Erica J. Richards, Cullen D. Speckhart (Cooley); James C. Lanik, Jennifer B. Lyday, Thomas W. Waldrep (Waldrep, Wall, Babcock & Bailey); Kevin L. Sink (Waldrep, Wall, Babcock & Bailey)
    for defendant: Brad J. Axelrod (Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom); Caitlin K. Cahow, Brad B. Erens (Jones Day); Paul R. DeFillipo (Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch); Kristen R. Fournier (King and Spalding); Kathleen A. Frazier (Shook Hardy & Bacon); Gregory M. Gordon, Daniel B. Prieto, Mark W. Rasmussen, Amanda Rush (Jones Day); Robert W. Hamilton (Jones Day); James M. Jones (Jones Day); Neal K. Katyal, Sean M. Marotta (Hogan Lovells US); Glen M. Kurtz, Jessica C. Lauria (White & Case); James N. Lawler, Joseph F. Pacelli (Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch); C. Kevin Marshall (Jones Day); John R. Miller, Jr. (Miller, Kistler, Campbell, Miller, Williams & Benson); Matthew L. Tomsic (Rayburn, Cooper, Durham); Lyndon M. Treeter (Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch)

    Case Number: 22-2003, 22-2004, 22-2005, 22-2006, 22-2007, 22-2008, 22-2009, 22-2010, 20-2011

    Subsidiary Spun Off to Assume Litigation Liability Had Bankruptcy Dismissed Since Right to Reimbursement of Liability Costs Weighed Against Finding Financial Distress

  • January 30, 2023 | Law.com

    Copycat? Court Trims Claims but Preserves Suit Accusing Wayfair of 'Freeriding' Williams-Sonoma's Goodwill

    Williams-Sonoma's lawsuit accusing Wayfair of copying its designs has been pared down, but a federal judge in Massachusetts said the case may continue on a single state law claim for unfair competition.

    4 minute read

  • January 27, 2023 | Litigation Daily

    Another Healthy Dose of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    Runners up this week include litigators from Quinn Emanuel, DiCello Levitt and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.

    6 minute read

  • Admiral Ins. Co. v. Niagara Transformer Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-12
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Richard J. Sullivan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant Admiral Insurance Company: Michael S. Chuven, on the brief, Justin N. Kinney, Kinney Lisovicz Reilly & Wolff PC, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee Niagara Transformer Corporation: Rodman E. Honecker, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 21-2733

    Insurer's Duty to Indemnify Insured Inadequately Distinguished From Its Duty to Defend

  • January 9, 2023 | Daily Report Online

    Tenn. Governor Uses Exemption to Deny Open Records Requests

    The exemption, called the "deliberative process privilege," is an exception to state open records laws that have been carved out by the courts. The privilege allows "high government officials" to deny records when they believe the documents are part of their "deliberative decision-making process."

    8 minute read

  • January 5, 2023 | Daily Business Review

    Split En Banc 11th Circ.: Public School's Sex-Separated Bathroom Policy Does Not Violate Title IX

    "In this case, the school board has gone to great lengths—as the district court itself acknowledged—to accommodate LGBTQ students," the majority wrote.

    5 minute read