ETHICS
A judge’s Facebook friendship with an attorney is not a legally sufficient basis to disqualify the judge from that attorney’s case, a sharply divided (4-3) Florida Supreme Court has ruled in a decision that produced three different opinions from the seven jurists. Click the link to read more…..
Bloomberg Law “HP Inc. convinced a federal judge in Austin, Texas, to transfer a patent monetizer’s suit over allegedly infringing laptops, desktops, monitors, and docking stations to Northern California where the company is headquartered. Universal Read more…
Bloomberg Law “The US Supreme Court curbed the Securities and Exchange Commission‘s ability to press complaints before in-house judges, saying defendants have a constitutional right to make their case to a federal jury when the Read more…
Bloomberg Law National banks will have to contend with more litigation to assess whether state consumer protection laws apply to them after a US Supreme Court unanimous decision on Thursday. The high court’s ruling in Read more…