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What's New in the Courts

August 8, 2023

U.S. Fifth Circuit Reverses Fee-Shifting and Other Sanctions Against Plaintiffs and Counsel for Attempting to Prosecute Voting Rights Act Claims

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

U.S. Tenth Circuit Finds that Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims Are Not Subject to Binding Arbitration Provisions in ERISA Plan which Purport to Foreclose the Right to Plan-wide Remedies

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

The Federal Circuit Holds Patent Troll and its Counsel Jointly Liable for Costs and Fees of Defending Frivolous Appeal

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

Judge Chhabria, in the Northern District of California, Sanctioned Facebook and Gibson Dunn over $925,000 for Discovery Abuses

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

Mississippi Bar Association Opinion Prevents Defense Counsel from Insisting that the Plaintiff’s Attorney “Approve” of or “Agree” to Release

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses Defense Verdict in a Defective Forklift Case based on the Improper Exclusion of Plaintiff’s Expert Testimony

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

Magistrate in the Eastern District of Louisiana Recommends that Plaintiff be Precluded from Offering Evidence of $837,286.87 in Claimed Damages where Pre-Surgery Requests and an Order for an IME were Disregarded by Arnold & Itkin Attorneys

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

U.S. Ninth Circuit Reversed Lodestar-Based Fee Award in Connection with Class Settlement that Was Well in Excess of the Benefit to the Class

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

U.S. Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of LPLA Action Against Biomet on Prescription Grounds

Written by Steve Herman
August 8, 2023

Delaware Chancery Court Rejects “Maga-Fund” and “Declining-Percentage” Approaches in Favor of a 26.7% Award out of $1 Billion Settlement under the “Stage-of-Case” Method

Written by Steve Herman