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When I walked into Manhattan Housing Court a few weeks ago, I knew we had a strong case. Our client, a disabled 87-year-old woman, was facing eviction from the rent-controlled [...]

Fundo de Garantia Automovel v Juliana (Case C-80/17) and Smith v Meade, (Case C122/17) Advocate Generals of the European Court of Justice have recently offered opinions on two cases referred [...]

A recent research paper from Google, coupled with a High Court judgment, has shed light on how Google is responding to right to be forgotten ('RTBF') requests four years after [...]

Non-party entitled to access to documents filed at court Master McCloud has held that documents 'filed' on the court record which are read in court can be accessed by non-parties [...]

A California federal court has refused summary judgment to a marketer who asserted that references to an astronaut in marketing materials were only 'incidental' or were privileged as a matter [...]

On 8 February 2018, the Supreme Court gave its judgment in an appeal by Her Majesty's Inspector of Health and Safety against Chevron North Sea Limited. The appeal concerned a [...]

In a Court of Appeal judgment dated the 27th October 2017, in the names of Paul u martu Mariella Mizzi kif ezercenti l-kummerc that l-isem 'The Foto Grafer' v David [...]

On 6 December 2017, the High Court of Australia (HCA) handed down two decisions that will have far-reaching consequences for the approach taken in bargaining for enterprise agreements and responding [...]

Spanish regulation of mortgages and consumers' rights is under revision. Recent judgments of the Supreme Court of Spain and the European Court of Justice have declared the abusive nature of [...]

The European Court of Justice ('CJEU') today handed down its highly anticipated judgment on the legality of a brand owner's restriction of online sales through third-party platforms. Agreeing with the [...]

A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Queensland has invalidated three years' worth of rates and charges levied by one local government, with possible implications for others. On 6 [...]

'The more warped the defendant's standards of honesty are, the less likely it is that he will be convicted of dishonest behaviour........' This, according to the Supreme Court in yesterday's [...]

On 11 October 2017, the High Court released its latest judgment in the long running saga between Mezhprom Bank and its liquidator, the Deposit Insurance Agency (the 'DIA'), and Russian [...]

Last year, we reported on a decision of the Federal Court of Australia, in which the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) unsuccessfully sought injunctive relief to prevent Telstra from running its [...]

As we write this, our fair city remains in a blissful haze following our Eagles' 33-10 rout of the 49'ers to go 7-1 in the NFC East, so it might [...]

Court of Appeal judgment: Burlington Loan Management and others v Lomas and others (as the joint administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration)) [2017] EWCA Civ 1462 Summary and [...]

On 25 October 2017, the English Supreme Court handed down judgment in Mitsui & Co Ltd and Others v Beteiligungsgesellschaft LPG Tankerflotte MBH & Co KG and Another (The 'Longchamp'). [...]

On October 6, 2017, the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) utilized its 'emergency regulation' power and issued an amendment to the Department of Labor Regulations to clarify that [...]

On 3 October 2017, the Irish government published the general scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017 (the 'Bill'). The Bill is a response to recent judgments of [...]

Earlier this year, the Federal Circuit held 'that statements made by a patent owner during an IPR proceeding, whether before or after an institution decision, can be considered for claim [...]

Executive Summary: Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Hylko v. U.S. Steel Corporation affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the employer [...]

[Parbatbhai Aahir & Ors. Vs. State of Gujarat & Anr. (Criminal Appeal No. 1723 of 2017)] A full bench comprising of Hon'ble Mr. Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Hon'ble Mr. Justice [...]

Reilly v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., No. 16-17361 (11th Cir. 2017) The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's summary judgment in favor of defendant, Chipotle Mexican Grill, [...]

Yesterday, Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte granted summary judgment to plaintiffs and vacated the Bureau of Land Management's notice that it was postponing certain compliance dates contained in the Obama BLM [...]

Although the Court didn't break much new legal ground in The Bank of Nova Scotia v. Renatoneil Consultants Ltd., Justice Petersen reminded lawyers about some critical best practices when enforcing [...]

Written by litigator and mediator Irvin Schein and originally published at irvinschein.com. A number of years ago, a case in New Mexico called Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants made headlines when [...]

Enforcing an award where the supervising court has set it aside The claimant in this case had obtained an award from a Russian arbitral body. That award was then set [...]

On 6 September 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered a highly anticipated judgment in case C-413/14 P, opposing the US-based microchip manufacturer Intel to the [...]

The European Union Court of Justice confirmed the intellectual property rights owned by the French company 'Forge de Laguiole', but solely in areas in which it pursued an actual business [...]

The legal system of the Republic of Cyprus provides various routes for the enforcement of foreign judgments which have been issued abroad. The procedure to be followed depends on the [...]