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James Tarter

LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice

On June 20, in Dukes v. Wal-Mart , the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a huge blow to plaintiffs seeking to certify employment discrimination class actions under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, as well as consumer, antitrust, and ... more

LawFlash/Client Alert | Class Actions LawFlash
Litigation Practice

In a decision with implications for companies facing class action litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a federal district court, having rejected certification of a proposed class action, could not take the a... more

LawFlash/Client Alert | Litigation LawFlash
Karen Pohlmann, Marc Sonnenfeld

In Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co. , 563 U.S. __ (June 6, 2011), the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a split in the lower courts as to whether securities fraud plaintiffs must prove loss causation to obtain class certif... more

LawFlash/Client Alert | Intellectual Property LawFlash
R. (Ted) Cruz

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc., et al. v. SEB S.A. , No. 10-6 (2011), holding that to prove inducing infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) a plaintiff must prove that the ... more

LawFlash/Client Alert | Intellectual Property LawFlash
Intellectual Property Practice

Unanimously holding that the claimed invention directed to methods of risk hedging in commodities trading was not patentable, the U.S. Supreme Court today issued its much-anticipated decision in In re Bilski . A 5-4 majority o... more