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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | USA | 20 Jan 2021
On January 8, 2021, the Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Minerva Surgical, Inc. on September 30, 2020.1 The question…
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Freeths | United Kingdom | 5 Jan 2021
The Court of Appeal recently dismissed an appeal by a personal representative against the judgment of HHJ…
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Hardwicke | United Kingdom | 13 Nov 2020
The cart before the horse when requesting an adjudicator: Land End Developments Construction Limited v Kingstone Civil Engineering Limited [2020]…
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Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 2 Jun 2020
In cases involving contracts between U.S. companies, courts frequently allow a nonsignatory to a contract to enforce an arbitration provision in the…
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Latham & Watkins LLP | United Kingdom | 28 May 2020
Parties may struggle to establish issue estoppel based on a foreign judgment, even when they agreed exclusive jurisdiction of English courts. MAD…
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Khaitan & Co | India | 18 May 2020
The doctrine of promissory estoppel has often been invoked in cases of commercial disputes as well as tax disputes in India. Although the concept of…
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | France | 14 May 2020
The First Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation recently overruled a Paris Court of Appeal decision and determined that there was no basis for the…
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Mauro Rubino-Sammartano | United Kingdom | 6 May 2020
In Carpatsky Petroleum Corporation v. PJSC Ukrnafta [2020] EWHC 769 (Comm.), Butcher J. Was seized with an application for enforcement of a New York…
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Kingsley Napley | United Kingdom | 15 Apr 2020
The courts have recently handed down two decisions in farming inheritance cases involving claims for proprietary estoppel. Laura Phillips, a…
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Troutman Pepper | USA | 24 Feb 2020
General Electric petitioned for an IPR against a United Technologies patent relating to gas turbine engines. General Electric was unsuccessful…