Posts Tagged ‘corporate counsel’
Federal Evidence Rules Finally Catch up to Digital Evidence Avalanche
With the Federal Rules of Evidence’s amendment of Rule 902, certain types of machine-generated data and forensic electronic evidence are now deemed self-authenticating.
Read MoreActivists Bring Climate Change Policy to the Courtroom
When those parties and companies refuse to make voluntary changes to improve such climate change factors as pollution output and planet-harming resource gathering methods, activists looking to protect the planet have no other choice but to take them to court.
Read MoreEmployment Agreements that Prevent Class Action Litigation Deemed Legal
An extremely close 5-4 ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that employment agreements that state employees must give up their rights to pursue class action claims are legal. Many cases may be settled in arbitration – but is it a change for the better?
Read MoreU.S. IPR Patent Review Process Legality Has Been Upheld
Houston-based oilfield services company Oil States International, Inc. challenged the legality of inter partes review (IPR), a patent review process that allows the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to hold hearings with patent challengers and patent holders to determine the validity of a patent. The company argued that IPR violated the right of defendants…
Read MoreReversed Ruling Could Allow Junk Science to Complicate Litigation
A reversed ruling from July 2017 could reopen a precedent that junk science evidence is admissible in court, which may allow several thousand cases to run through the judicial system based on refuted scientific theories.
Read MoreThe Emerging Prevalence of Commercial Disparagement
In a world in which social media gives customer and companies the opportunity to say anything about one another instantly, there is a heightened danger of violating the commercial disparagement tort.
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