United States: Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration

When an artificial intelligence (AI) company gets sued, the opposing side can demand access to the technical core of its business: the training datasets, model architectures, and algorithms that define how the system behaves.

Two courts recently addressed whether AI prompts and conversations used in litigation preparation are discoverable, with both the Texas Business Court and New York Supreme Court...

The Texas Business Court has weighed in on a critical question facing modern litigation: can conversations with AI tools like ChatGPT be shielded from discovery? In a June 2026 ruling,...

Duane Morris Takeaway: This week’s episode features Duane Morris partner Jerry Maatman and special counsel Eden Anderson and Rebecca Bjork...

Maybe you are in the process of buying a home. Maybe you have lived there for years. At some point, you might have asked yourself is that fence really on the actual property line?..

On May 8 in Aspire Commercial, LLC v. Christopher Stephenson and BES.AI, LLC, Judge Stagner of the Eleventh Division addresses the question of whether a party seeking to remove a case to the Texas Business Court...

The Federal Circuit issued several significant rulings addressing trade secret statute of limitations, patent eligibility under Section 101, jury instruction requirements, and the reviewability of IPR institution decisions. These precedential opinions establish important standards for when plaintiffs must file misappropriation claims, how abstract ideas are evaluated in agricultural technology patents, and proper procedures for patent infringement trials involving multiple patents.

On May 8 in Aspire Commercial, LLC v. Christopher Stephenson and BES.AI, LLC, Judge Stagner of the Eleventh Division addresses the question of whether a party seeking to remove a case to the Texas Business Court...

The Federal Circuit recently addressed whether claims directed to a relay device for tracking farming operations constitute patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court's April 22, 2026, decision in Hencely v. Fluor Corp. rejected the recent expansion of the government-contractor defense for private contractors working on certain federal projects...

Recent Supreme Court decisions have fundamentally reshaped the legal protections available to government contractors facing tort claims and civil litigation. The Court's rulings in GEO Group v. Menocal and Hencely v. Fluor Corp. have narrowed the scope of contractor immunities and eliminated key procedural advantages, forcing contractors to reassess their risk exposure when performing work under federal contracts.