Worldwide: Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration

In Local Marketing, Inc. v. Bennett, the Texas Business Court addressed a common dispute involving employees who depart a business to form a competing venture.

Florida is emerging as a favorable venue for defamation lawsuits because its long-arm statute makes it easier to bring out-of-state publishers into court—but plaintiffs still must clear the same substantive legal...

AI tools are already generating false, reputation-damaging statements about real people—but early defamation lawsuits against companies like OpenAI, Google and Meta are struggling because courts are applying...

New York courts issued significant estate litigation rulings this spring, addressing undue influence claims, attorney-client privilege protections, and the admission of lost wills. These decisions clarify important procedural and substantive standards for estate practitioners navigating complex probate disputes.

A decade after the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Universal Health Services v. Escobar, the False Claims Act landscape remains mired in confusion and uncertainty. How has this pivotal ruling reshaped FCA litigation, and what challenges continue to plague the doctrines of falsity, materiality, and scienter in federal enforcement actions?

Most people alive today were born after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. We may be inclined to take for granted that civil rights are so engrained in our society that racial discrimination is only...

A rapidly emerging wave of litigation is targeting data centers on multiple legal grounds including environmental violations, land use disputes, nuisance claims, tort actions, and civil rights allegations. Legal experts examine the current landscape of these cases and analyze the potential for mass tort, personal injury, and property damage claims that are likely to follow as data center development continues to expand.

Personal injury cases in New Jersey follow a complex timeline influenced by medical recovery, evidence gathering, insurance negotiations, and potential litigation. Understanding the key stages—from initial treatment through possible trial—helps injured parties set realistic expectations about how long their case may take and what factors could extend or shorten the process.

The Cartiva synthetic cartilage implant, designed to treat big toe arthritis, has led to widespread litigation after a 2024 recall due to complications including implant subsidence, displacement, and nerve damage.

For hundreds of years, the world’s sovereign nations refused to allow any other foreign sovereign to be sued in their courts without the sovereign’s consent. The guiding principle was “absolute sovereign immunity,” an outgrowth of the ancient legal precept rex non potest peccare, understood to mean “the king can do no wrong.” The principle also was recognized as wise foreign policy because it extended "grace and comity" to other sovereigns.

On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in two enforcement proceedings under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), leaving intact D.C. Circuit rulings that rejected sovereign immunity defenses...

The Supreme Court's decision in Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación CIMEX, S.A. fundamentally alters the landscape for litigation under the Helms-Burton Act by eliminating sovereign immunity as a defense for Cuban state-owned entities. This ruling opens the door for U.S. nationals to pursue trafficking claims against Cuban government agencies and instrumentalities without satisfying the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's stringent exceptions. The decision raises critical questions about enforcement mechan