Jun 11, 2018 | Environmental law, News
BY CRAIG A. TRISTAO Lawsuits brought by municipalities against the manufacturers of chemicals, including 1,2,3, Trichloropropane, whom the municipalities contend contaminate drinking water could be for naught as a federal jury awards no damages after finding liability...
Jun 6, 2018 | Business Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment
YOU’RE GOING TO TRIAL: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? By Darryl J. Horowitt Most civil lawsuits end with a settlement. There is no trial. There are, nevertheless, some cases that do go to trial. For the litigants, however, “going to trial” is a nebulous subject. This article...
Jun 5, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
President Trump’s new head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, recently noted that uncertainty about what kinds of innovation are patent-eligible is weakening investment, growth, and jobs in high tech industries: I do worry that the...
May 30, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Inventors keep filing for patents, despite a fairly hostile judicial atmosphere for patents (such as declaring patents are no longer private property, adding new limitations on where patentees can bring suit against infringers, weakening the standard for invalidating...
May 23, 2018 | Agriculture, Environmental law, News
Although there is a recent State Appeals court case that upholds the State’s ability to list Glyphosate as a Prop 65 chemical and would require labeling as such starting July 2018 ((5th Dist.) there is also a federal ruling on preliminary injunction that prohibits...