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Supreme Court to Decide Trademark Licensee Rights in Bankruptcy Suit

By Peggy Keene on March 5, 2019 Posted in Supreme Court, Trademark

The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether a trademark ...

US Supreme Court Rejects A “Wholly Groundless” Exception To Clauses Delegating Arbitrability

By Michael Leggieri on January 15, 2019 Posted in Arbitration, Supreme Court

Specifically, the Court confirmed that when an arbitration agreement delegates to an ...

Are Employment Class Actions A Thing of the Past?

By Keith Clouse on June 27, 2018 Posted in Employment Law, Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld employers’ use of class action waivers in employment ...

Beneficiary designation after divorce invalid — law upheld by US Supreme Court

By Michelle O'Neil on June 13, 2018 Posted in Divorce, Supreme Court

The Supreme Court recently issued an opinion parsing out the practical concerns at play ...

Two Supreme Court Cases Protect the Right to Privacy During an Arrest

By [email protected] on June 7, 2018 Posted in Supreme Court

Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure have ...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Lifetime Retiree Health Benefits Cannot be Inferred from CBA

By Haynes and Boone Benefits Group on February 28, 2018 Posted in Supreme Court

In the case of CNH Industrial N.V. v. Reese, an employer and certain retirees disputed ...

SCOTUS Denies Cert. in Texas Ponzi Scheme Case

By Beth Graham on October 13, 2017 Posted in Arbitration, Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court

In their petition for certiorari, the former financial advisers argued the Fifth Circuit’s ...

Supreme Court to Decide Google’s Trademark Fate

By Peggy Keene on August 22, 2017 Posted in Supreme Court, Trademark

Just as The Coca-Cola Company is currently fighting in federal court over whether the term “Zero” ...

5th Circuit Upholds Class Waiver Without an Arbitration Agreement

By Beth Graham on August 14, 2017 Posted in Arbitration, FAA, NLRA, Supreme Court

A Convergys worker who signed the class-action waiver as part of the employment ...

Misclassification in the Sharing Economy: It’s the Arbitration Agreements

By Beth Graham on August 8, 2017 Posted in Arbitration, Supreme Court

In their journal article, the authors study the changes made to several companies’ ...

Supreme Court Unanimously Rules That SEC Sought Disgorgement is a “Penalty” Subject to a Five-Year Statute of Limitations.

By Carrington Coleman on June 13, 2017 Posted in Supreme Court

In Kokesh v. SEC, the Supreme Court determined that the five-year statute...

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