A Florida state appeals court recently upheld the decision to award Dorothy Alexander $25 million in punitive damages and $8 million in compensatory damages for the death of her husband. She claimed that Lorillard Tobacco Co. showed reckless...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has remained open despite the government shutdown in the beginning of October, hearing complaints of workplace discrimination from employees nationwide. This fact was relevant to victims of...
In a case marked by a great number of grounds of unpatentability, Covidien was able to get 14 challenged claims of an Ethicon Endo-Surgery patent into a trial for inter partes review in a case styled as Covidien LP v. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc....
Employment discrimination law is an interesting point of intersection between state and federal authority. While many states have expanded the law within their own borders, it has been some time since the federal government has significantly expanded...
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down appeals by online retailers to be exempted from New York's sales tax law, despite the companies having no physical presence in the Empire State.
The Supreme Court recently denied certification in two free speech cases involving decisions made by public universities, Dixon v. University of Toledo and Ed Ray v. OSU Student Alliance.... By: DLA Piper
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) set a Friday deadline for interested parties to submit comments on establishing a transition period under the newly signed Assembly Bill 327 (AB 327). For existing net-energy metering (NEM) customers...
In a recent Illinois Appellate Court decision, the Court held that a public body was in violation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) where the public body initially willfully ignored its obligation to respond to a FOIA request in a timely...
The Australian Patent Office will participate in the pilot of the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (Global PPH). What is the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (Global PPH)? The Global PPH is a new global system of accelerated patent...
An artist who sculpted a replica of the Statue of Liberty that appears outside a Las Vegas casino-hotel has sued the U.S. Postal Service for copyright infringement.
