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On February 28, the court in the mutual fund excessive fee case against Hartford (Kasilag v. Hartford Inv. Fin. Servs., LLC, No. 1:11-cv-01083 (D.N.J.)) issued a 70-page opinion ruling in favor of the fund adviser and against the plaintiffs. The...

On February 13, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Defendants’ Petition for Rehearing En Banc in the case titled Markle Interests, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, et al. The Defendants, who are timber and...

On March 1, 2017, several amendments to the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Rules of Arbitration (ICC Rules) will take effect. The most noteworthy of these amendments is the introduction of a new Expedited Procedure which aims to reduce the...

Budget hearings were the name of the game again this week, with a few other committee meetings sprinkled in throughout the week. In the House of Representatives on Monday, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) kicked things off by...

Environmental and Policy Focus - Trump directs rollback of Obama-era water rule - The Washington Post - Feb 28 - President Trump on Tuesday instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to review and...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to introduce the first in a series of monthly updates from the FinTech practice. The purpose of the updates is to provide timely information on issues of interest to WSGR’s FinTech clients and friends of...

A jury trial originally scheduled for February 13, 2017 in the District of Massachusetts (Janssen v. Celltrion, C.A. No. 1:15-cv-10698) has been postponed while the parties address standing and damages. Judge Wolf has set a briefing schedule on...

It’s March, which means that wedding season is nearly upon us. Let’s say you run your own wedding-related business with one employee: you. A customer gives you a review on the internet that is not only negative, but contains false statements. Who is...

On Feb. 3, 2017, the Supreme Court of Texas held that adjacent landowners were not mandatory parties to a lessor’s suit against the lessee for failure to make royalty payments if the adjacent landowners had not claimed any interest relating to the...

A federal judge has ruled that New York law—not Delaware law as the parties agreed in the initial loan agreement—applies to the defaulted borrower's claims and has certified a class action against the debt collector....

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