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Barnes & Thornburg LLP | USA | 3 Sep 2020
A California appellate court recently held that an owner on a construction project could be liable to a subcontractor for the tort of intentional…
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP | USA | 18 Aug 2020
Called upon by the Ninth Circuit in Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc. to answer two key questions concerning the validity of a settlement provision…
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Bowditch & Dewey LLP | USA | 29 Apr 2020
During an interview with Bloomberg TV on March 6th, Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, observed: “Economic time has stopped but…
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Maitland Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Apr 2020
A landowner X covenants with Y in an option or a right of pre-emption not to dispose of the lease or land without consent, or without complying with…
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Aird & Berlis LLP | Aird & McBurney LP | Canada | 24 Feb 2020
Hidden in the text of a strongly-worded Family Law case, Yenovkian v. Gulian, 2019 ONSC 7279, a new and timely tort based on invasion of privacy was…
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Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP | USA | 15 May 2019
The Kentucky Court of Appeals recently ruled that Kentucky does not recognize the cause of action known as tortious interference with inheritance or…
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Jackson Lewis PC | USA | 15 Mar 2019
Do employees in New Jersey owe a duty of loyalty to employers, even without a written employment agreement? Eliminating any possible doubt, the New…
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Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 22 Feb 2019
In suit brought by representatives of estate of Prince against pop star’s former sound engineer and others involved in posthumous release of Prince…
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McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 20 Dec 2018
Addressing the requisite minimum contacts for personal jurisdiction over a patent owner, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the…
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Stinson LLP | USA | 5 Nov 2018
There are only four ways to avoid an arbitration agreement. You can prove: 1) it was never formed; 2) it was formed, but is invalid under state law…