8/14/2025 7:45:38 PM In Unanimous 'Kousisis' Decision, US Supreme Court Widens Scope for Federal Fraud Prosecutions By Alexis Loeb Two months ago, in Kousisis v. United States, 605 U.S. __ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld two fraud convictions after...
6/6/2025 9:47:09 PM Which Party Loses Out When Settlement Funds Are Wired to a “Spoofer” and Not Plaintiff? By Kevin Jones Answer: the “party in the best position to prevent the fraud.” In the digital age, where cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated,...
4/10/2025 1:00:20 PM Texas Case Shows Why Juries Are Well-Suited To COVID Suits By Jeremy Lawrence A pending case in Texas illustrates why COVID-19 business interruption claims need to be decided by juries in light of case-specific...
1/23/2025 1:14:36 AM Sometimes, Insurers Want To Settle! By Jeremy Lawrence This summary of a recently filed complaint illustrates one of the worst-case scenarios an insured defendant can find itself in: getting...
1/14/2025 8:04:38 PM What’s Ahead as Corporate Transparency Act Comes to a Crossroads By Alexis Loeb Cameron Gibbs The recent whiplash regarding the validity of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)—it was enjoined just to particular parties, then...
1/29/2024 6:25:46 PM Major Decision Affects Law of Scraping and Online Data Collection, Meta Platforms v. Bright Data By Alex Reese Raven Quesenberry On January 23, 2024, the court in Meta Platforms Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., Case No. 3:23-cv-00077-EMC (N.D. Cal.), issued a summary...
10/24/2023 9:43:00 PM Reporting Dispute Claims Within Closely Held Wineries By Amy Briggs Hilary Krase Many wineries operate as closely held companies, meaning they’re owned by an individual or small group of shareholders, who are often...
7/28/2023 7:11:51 PM Compelling Employees to Arbitration Suddenly Has Less of an Upside By Chandra Andrade Kevin Jones Download a PDF of this piece On July 17, the California Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Adolph v. Uber Techs Inc.,...
7/13/2023 7:40:49 PM Top 5 Privacy Cases To Watch, From Chatbots to Geolocation By Sushila Chanana Litigation — and threats of litigation — related to privacy law violations have been on the rise recently. While some judges have pushed...
1/4/2023 10:36:00 PM SB 54: Shifting the Burden to Producers To Address California's Plastic Pollution By Elizabeth Dorsi Download a PDF of this piece California's SB 54: Plastics Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (Public...
12/22/2022 11:37:54 PM What Recent Rulings in 'hiQ v. LinkedIn' and Other Cases Say About the Legality of Data Scraping By Alex Reese Raven Quesenberry LinkedIn obtained a permanent injunction on Dec. 6 in its six-year-old lawsuit against data scraping company hiQ Labs, which LinkedIn...
11/10/2022 1:21:33 AM One Pending Supreme Court Case Could Change the Internet as We Know It: Gonzalez v. Google and Tech Platforms’ Liability By Erik Olson Raven Quesenberry The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Gonzalez v. Google, a high-stakes case appealed from the Ninth Circuit about the scope of...
5/14/2022 12:32:00 AM Litigation Trends In the Private Equity and Venture Capital Space By Cynthia Castillo Alex Reese In today's Upside episode, we explore fiduciary duty in the venture capital context. Can owners of a venture capital management company...
8/30/2021 10:50:10 PM No Quarter: What Claims Doesn’t Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Protect Platform Companies Against? By Erik Olson Depending on what you read or who you talk to, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230) (CDA) is either a tool of...
6/29/2021 7:27:07 PM The FASTER Act: What Companies Need To Know About the New Food Allergy Law By MaryJo Lopez-Oneal Kelly Matayoshi While the Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education, and Research Act (FASTER Act) only makes a minor change to add sesame as a major...
5/19/2021 12:10:03 AM How to Comply With the TCPA After the Facebook Supreme Court Decision By Cynthia Castillo Many consumer products industry companies rely heavily on text messaging marketing programs to reach their customers and to create...