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A federal judge in the Elephant Shoe, LLC v. Cook case issued an injunction prohibiting defendants from copying the judge and magistrate on emails sent to third parties, a practice barred by Local Rule 7.1(M). The judge noted that the intercepted emails were unprofessional and ordered an immediate halt, warning that violations could result in contempt sanctions, including fines or imprisonment. The order underscores the court's willingness to enforce procedural rules rigorously. The ruling was reported by Reason.com on March 14, 2026.
The EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal upheld the Cancellation Division’s finding that the trademark "BREITLING FOR WOMEN" was registered in bad faith. The decision relied on Article 59(1)(b) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation and CJEU precedent, noting the applicant’s lack of a...
The HCCH Council on General Affairs and Policy released its 2026 Conclusions & Decisions, marking the end of the long‑running parentage‑surrogacy project without adopting a new convention. A UK‑initiated working group was mandated to explore a future convention on cross‑border...
Ryanair almost had a Boeing 737 seized at Linz Airport after a court‑sanctioned debt collector boarded the aircraft to enforce a €892.87 judgment. The debt stemmed from a passenger who claimed EC‑261 compensation for a 13‑hour delay and won a...
California’s Workplace Know Your Rights Act (SB 294) imposes a March 30, 2026 deadline for employers to let every current employee designate an emergency contact and opt‑in to notification if arrested or detained. The requirement extends beyond a simple form; it demands updated...
Perplexity AI has filed a motion to dismiss the New York Times and Chicago Tribune lawsuits, arguing that its answer engine merely follows user prompts and lacks the volitional conduct required for direct, contributory, or vicarious copyright infringement. The company...
President Trump issued executive orders directing the FTC to police false “Made in America” labels and to lower housing costs by easing construction regulations and expanding mortgage access. Federal judges blocked the administration’s attempts to defund the Consumer Financial Protection...
Amrith Kaur Aakre serves as the Chief Civil Rights Enforcer for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission covering Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Previously she led the Sikh Coalition as National Legal Director and worked as...
Lawyers routinely encounter high‑conflict situations that trigger stress responses and impede effective advocacy. The article distinguishes high conflict—self‑perpetuating, adversarial, and draining—from healthy conflict, which channels tension into curiosity and constructive outcomes. It draws on Amanda Ripley’s research and Bill Eddy’s...
A proposal circulating in Albany would slash New York’s estate‑tax exemption from over $7 million to $750,000 and raise the top rate to 50 percent. The change would shift the tax burden from ultra‑wealthy dynasties to typical middle‑class families who own modest...
A federal judge dismissed the subpoenas issued to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the Fed over alleged renovation cost overruns, ruling they were primarily intended to harass and pressure the central bank. The decision was framed as a defense...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued the Consumer Product Safety Commission to force the release of safety codes for children’s products that were incorporated into federal law but remain claimed as copyrighted. Public.Resource.Org, a nonprofit that publishes government documents, argues...
The Legalweek keynote urged law firms to reinvent their business models, echoing the disruptive pivots of Apple and Netflix in the early 2000s. Yet a new survey shows only 19% of firms have altered fee structures to accommodate AI, 72%...
A British Columbia Supreme Court anti‑SLAPP ruling in February 2026 upheld a journalist's right to publish a 2021 investigative piece on Create Abundance, a Canada‑registered group alleged to have ties to China’s United Front Work Department and linked to the...
High‑net‑worth divorces rarely hinge on a single bank account; they involve layered trusts, corporate interests, and property held through multiple entities. Early in the case, parties must treat the process as a financial investigation, mapping the entire asset ecosystem and...
The EEOC issued a 2‑1 decision overturning the 2015 Lusardi ruling, limiting transgender federal employees to bathrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Chair Andrea Lucas justified the move under Title VII, while Democrat member Kalpana Kotagal dissented,...
The Connecticut Housing Committee approved a bill, 11-8, that requires landlords of buildings with five or more units to provide a legitimate reason before evicting tenants who have lived there for at least one year. The legislation specifically targets no‑fault...
Ofcom confirmed that AVS Group has not yet paid the £1 million fine, the £50,000 secondary penalty, or the £8,000‑per‑day daily charge for ongoing non‑compliance with the Online Safety Act, and is reviewing recovery options. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starlink has applied for...
Epic Systems secured a stipulated judgment and permanent injunction against GuardDog Telehealth in its lawsuit with Health Gorilla. GuardDog admitted its business model involved requesting and summarizing medical records via the Carequality and TEFCA interoperability frameworks under the guise of...
Press freedom is under unprecedented attack, with over 330 journalists imprisoned worldwide by the end of 2025, marking a five‑year streak above 300 incarcerations. Authoritarian regimes such as Belarus and Azerbaijan are codifying repression through treason laws, extremist labels, and...
The weekly Compliance Jobs Report highlights a surge of senior appointments, including Chipotle’s new chief compliance officer Sunayna Ramdeo and the University of Pennsylvania’s vice president of audit, compliance and privacy Timothy Susanin. KPMG bolstered its ethics and compliance function...
Justice Samuel Alito’s solo concurrence in Malliotakis v. Williams signals that the Supreme Court may soon limit or strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in the pending Louisiana v. Callais case. The opinion frames the New York redistricting order...
HYCU unveiled Legal 360 at Legalweek 2026, a matter‑centric resilience platform built for law firms and legal departments. The solution unifies protection for iManage Cloud, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, DocuSign and hybrid infrastructure, delivering automated backups, granular recovery, and immutable copies. A previewed...
Artificial intelligence–driven search tools are reshaping how prospective clients discover legal services, shifting the focus from traditional page rankings to AI‑generated citations. Law firms must adopt GEO (or AEO) tactics that prioritize topical authority, structured content, and machine‑readable signals so...
Retail giant Walmart has named former Dallas prosecutor Erin Nealy Cox as its chief legal officer, effective April 13, 2026. Cox, who has served as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Dallas since 2021, brings extensive litigation and regulatory...
Prediction markets now let participants wager on public‑company events such as stock price moves, earnings‑call language, regulatory outcomes, and management decisions. Although these contracts are structured as event‑based instruments rather than traditional securities, they still rely on the same underlying...
The Patents Court ruled that Asda’s “Tang Gold” mandarin is not an essentially derived variety (EDV) of the protected “Nadorcott” cultivar. The judgment hinged on differences in pollen viability and seed production, which the court deemed essential characteristics of Nadorcott....
The SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee convened on March 12 to examine public‑company disclosure reform, fund proxy voting, and the tokenization of equity securities. Chairman Paul Atkins advocated a “minimum effective dose” of regulation, using materiality as a guiding principle and...
Meredith Cross, former SEC Division of Corporation Finance Director (2009‑2013), has been named the 2026 recipient of the William O. Douglas Award presented by the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni. The award, established in 1992, honors SEC alumni...
The FTC is zeroing in on warranty language as the most tangible right‑to‑repair liability for manufacturers. By tying warranty voiding clauses to third‑party repairs, the agency has leveraged the Magnuson‑Moss Warranty Act and antitrust tools, as seen in recent orders...
China enacted a sweeping ethnic‑unity law that codifies assimilation and expands legal tools to counter Western influence, while a U.S. report highlighted the concentration risk of its nuclear warhead storage at Base 67. In parallel, Beijing widened its ban on BHP...
Federal law grants borrowers a three‑business‑day right of rescission for home‑equity loans and HELOCs on their primary residence. The rescission period begins only after the borrower signs the loan, receives the Truth‑in‑Lending disclosure, and gets two copies of the Notice...
On Jan. 20, President Trump issued 26 executive orders, launching a wave of policy changes across trade, immigration, national security, and the environment. Just Security has compiled a continuously updated collection that includes a legal‑challenge tracker, a “What Just Happened” explainer...
Trial attorney Miles Feldman argues that traditional trial training overlooks emotional regulation, urging lawyers to adopt mindfulness techniques to stay calm under pressure. He highlights box breathing—a four‑second inhale, hold, and exhale pattern—as a quick tool to reset the nervous...
The Delaware Supreme Court’s *Thompson Street Capital* ruling applied the equitable doctrine “common law abhors a forfeiture” to a seller’s failure to meet notice‑of‑claims deadlines in a private‑company merger. In response, researchers found that roughly 20% of 4,200 examined private...
LegalWeek’s 2026 mock courtroom debated the defensibility of generative AI (GenAI) for document review, with the mock judge accepting validation statistics as sufficient. The article argues that recall and precision metrics only measure retrieval, not the interpretive judgments that GenAI...
Romero v. Ecuador, an ad hoc UNCITRAL arbitration, highlighted divergent approaches to treaty silence on dual nationals. The majority tribunal invoked the dominant and effective nationality doctrine to deny jurisdiction, while a dissenting arbitrator argued that, absent explicit treaty language, dual...
Iowa's House passed Bill 2513 limiting public universities' use of H‑1B visas for nationals of designated foreign adversaries. The measure, supported by a 68‑27 vote, would bar hires from countries such as China, Russia, Iran and others, affecting roughly 120‑130...
Monisha Shah has been announced as the government’s preferred candidate to chair the Legal Services Board, pending a Commons justice committee hearing later this month. Shah brings a diverse portfolio, currently leading the King’s Counsel Selection Panel, Publishers’ Licensing Services,...
Legalweek 2026 highlighted a pivotal shift in legal AI from simple yes‑or‑no outputs toward nuanced, context‑aware reasoning. Panels and keynotes emphasized that firms are demanding tools that can interpret complex statutes, weigh competing interests, and provide risk‑adjusted recommendations. Vendors showcased...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate oversight of cryptocurrency markets. The pact creates formal information‑sharing channels, joint working groups, and dispute‑resolution procedures to align regulatory approaches....
The week saw a surge of lawsuits targeting the Trump administration, including Anthropic’s dual suits over alleged unlawful sanctions, Liberty Justice Center’s challenge to a new 10% global tariff, and the DNC’s FOIA suit against multiple federal agencies. Courts also...
The Ninth Circuit refused to rehear en banc the Olympus Spa v. Armstrong case, leaving the panel majority’s decision intact. Judge VanDyke’s lead dissent opened with a graphic description of "swinging dicks," sparking a sharp rebuke from 28 of his...
The USPTO’s March 10, 2026 Official Gazette granted 19 new design patents covering items such as walking canes, garden lights, lamp accessories, and a portable pickleball net. Design patents protect only the ornamental appearance of a product, not its function, but infringement...
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 60% of U.S. adults believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a modest dip from earlier post‑Dobbs polls. About half of respondents (51%) say obtaining an abortion in their...
The Justice Department issued an opinion that clears the way for the Trump administration’s U.S. Tech Force program to let private‑sector technologists work for the federal government while remaining employed and retaining unvested stock units. The initiative will onboard managers...
Special purpose vehicles (SPVs) are increasingly used to invest in private companies, allowing investors to sidestep disclosure requirements and often layering high fees and opaque valuations. Recent Bloomberg coverage and two Delaware lawsuits expose fraud risks and the difficulty of...
An ex‑USCIS officer hosted a virtual Q&A with immigration attorney Evan J. Law to dissect real EB‑1A case narratives. The discussion focused on how to present a compelling leading or critical role claim, the elements that make a case narrative...
Judge Pauline Newman, a senior Federal Circuit judge, has filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review her removal from active service by fellow judges. The D.C. Circuit previously held that the Judicial Councils Reform and Judicial...
A new Brownlee LLP report urges Alberta to scrap its upcoming “Care‑first” no‑fault auto‑insurance regime, slated for Jan. 1 2027, arguing it strips victims of the right to sue and limits compensation. The report highlights that UCP AGM members voted to retain...
