In what could have been a one-page per curiam ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, two panel members decided to digress. There was apparently little substantive disagreement ...

Kenneth Portner of Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby. Kenneth Portner of Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby. Declaratory judgment actions are commonly employed by parties to ...

A Domestic Asset Protection Trust (DAPT) is a self-settled irrevocable spendthrift trust. In English, this means that a DAPT is trust that one can put their assets into for their own benefit, and then ...

“The CAFC explained that the precedent illustrated that many different circumstances may arise whereby discretion is exercised on various facts, including ‘whether preclusion should be afforded to a ...

For some reason, everybody is talking about severability. (Which means it is a good day, like every day, to read Kevin Walsh.) In addition to all the discussion of the merits and severability in Texas ...

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d) provides, in pertinent part, that “[u]nless a federal statute, these rules, or a court order provides otherwise, costs – other than attorney’s fees – should be ...

Insurance companies often prefer to litigate insurance coverage issues in federal courts. There are a number of reasons for this. First, well-founded or not, there is a general perception that the ...

“Patentees must think strategically before firing off cease-and-desist letters and during follow-up correspondence or meetings, lest they ultimately find themselves defending against a declaratory ...

In the absence of regulation governing issues surrounding declaratory judgments for non-infringement, judgments of prior cases must be used as a guide. Qing Ge of Liu Shen & Associates in Beijing ...

A Cook County judge will allow Orland Park’s ongoing lawsuit against former Mayor Keith Pekau to move forward.