US Supreme Court grants certiorari in Radlax Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank *

USA - December 13 2011
Section 1129(b)(2)(A)(iii) of the Bankruptcy Code allows a court to find that a chapter 11 “cramdown” plan is “fair and equitable” to an objecting class of secured creditors if the plan provides for the realization by such holders of the “indubitable equivalent” of their claims.

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US Supreme Court grants certiorari in Golan v. Holder *

USA - March 8 2011
Article 18 of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works ("Article 18"), which the United States joined in 1989, requires that signatory nations provide copyright protection to certain foreign works.

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US Supreme Court grants certiorari in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. *

USA - November 2 2010
Each year, the U.S. government provides billions of dollars in federal funding for research.

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US Supreme Court grants certiorari in Matrixx Initiatives, Iinc. v. Siracusano *

USA - June 16 2010
Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 10b-5 provide that a business may be held liable for failure to disclose any material fact in connection with the purchase or sale of its securities.

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Seventh Circuit rules that class actions pleaded as counterclaims are not removable under the Class Action Fairness Act *

USA - April 1 2010
Congress enacted the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”), Pub. L. No. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4, to ensure that major interstate class action lawsuits can be litigated in federal court, where Congress believed they belong.

Co-authors: Archis A. Parasharami.

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