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In this week's Off The Bench, the NBA signed $77 billion worth of telecast and streaming deals while longtime league broadcaster TNT challenged the decision, Jerry Jones' suit against his alleged daughter settled while jurors were at lunch, and Pennsylvania's high court agreed to hear an appeal relating to Pittsburgh's jock tax, a fee applied to nonresident professional athletes.
Posted: July 26, 2024, 9:38 pm
A New York federal judge has appointed a former magistrate judge to oversee a dispute between a Texas school district and several insurers who allegedly stiffed the district $17 million in damages following Hurricane Hanna.
Posted: July 26, 2024, 8:51 pm
Live Nation told the Ninth Circuit that recent precedent from California's top court backs its argument that consumer litigation over allegedly exorbitant ticket prices should go to arbitration, despite arbitral rules criticized by the panel as "cockamamie" during oral arguments last month.
Posted: July 26, 2024, 8:24 pm
World Trade Organization members announced a historic agreement on digital trade on Friday, but the U.S. said the deal "falls short" of its expectations.
Posted: July 26, 2024, 6:42 pm
The European Union challenged Taiwan's domestic sourcing requirements for offshore wind energy projects in the World Trade Organization, saying Friday that Taiwan was violating its duty not to discriminate against imported goods.
Posted: July 26, 2024, 6:04 pm
The Subway sandwich chain's Canadian franchisor has urged a New York federal judge to amend his recent order granting a development company's petition to enforce an arbitral award, saying he wrongly refused to let it argue an important point about the arbitration process.
Posted: July 26, 2024, 2:12 pm
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected appeals filed by the Russian figure skating team challenging the rankings in the team event during the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, a decision that means the U.S. team members will finally be able to collect their gold medals.
Posted: July 25, 2024, 8:43 pm
A former worker for British insurance company Beazley urged a Florida federal court Thursday to toss claims alleging trade secrets theft, saying the company's suit doesn't show how he supposedly caused it to incur $47 million in damages from an arbitration case over a Brazilian thermoelectric plant.
Posted: July 25, 2024, 8:27 pm
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced a new request Thursday calling on Mexican authorities to investigate claims that workers at a components manufacturing plant were fired for protected activities and blocked from joining outside unions.
Posted: July 25, 2024, 8:15 pm
Reed Smith LLP attorney Rebeca Mosquera was elected earlier this month as the new president of ArbitralWomen, a position she told Law360 is "not only a great honor, but a huge responsibility."
Posted: July 25, 2024, 8:10 pm
A D.C. federal judge entered a $194.3 million judgment against the Republic of Djibouti, enforcing an arbitration award secured by a Dubai-based port terminal operator in a long-running legal battle over an international container terminal in the East African country.
Posted: July 25, 2024, 3:50 pm
Massachusetts' intermediate-level appellate court on Thursday revived a legal malpractice suit against a pair of attorneys who allegedly waited too long to file an arbitration on their client's behalf, finding that a lower court was wrong to grant the lawyers a pretrial win.
Posted: July 25, 2024, 1:28 pm
A former litigator at global law firm Dentons has returned to practice in its Montreal office following five years working as an in-house counsel at electrical utility Hydro-Quebec, saying he will focus on energy, natural resources, mining and Indigenous law matters.
Posted: July 24, 2024, 8:56 pm
A Miami-based venture capitalist has told a New York federal judge that real estate firm Desarrolladora La Ribera can't simultaneously invoke and reject arbitration clauses in a defamation suit against him and another homebuyer in a luxury Four Seasons-branded development in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Posted: July 24, 2024, 7:06 pm
International legal and tax services firm Garrigues will create one of the largest law firms in Mexico by integrating a full-service Mexican firm into the group by the end of 2024, both firms announced.
Posted: July 24, 2024, 6:58 pm
A Navajo coal-mining company has wasted no time in appealing a Pennsylvania federal judge's order refusing to grant the tribe-owned business's bid to halt arbitration proceedings against a private equity firm in an $11 million dispute over their financing agreement.
Posted: July 24, 2024, 5:53 pm
When I’m not working as an appellate lawyer, I spend my spare time building guitars — a craft known as luthiery — which has helped to enhance the discipline, patience and resilience needed to write better briefs, says Rob Carty at Nichols Brar.
Posted: July 24, 2024, 1:36 pm
Cuba's former central bank told an English appeals court Wednesday that an offshore fund cannot sue it over €72 million ($78.2 million) of unpaid sovereign debt, because it did not consent to the assignment of the debt to the fund.
Posted: July 24, 2024, 12:59 pm
Hogan Lovells US LLP has asked a New York federal court to enforce a more than $1.2 million award it secured against Afghanistan in arbitration over fees it says it's owed for the firm's work representing the country in various legal matters, including litigation over the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Posted: July 23, 2024, 9:40 pm
A California federal judge Tuesday ordered certain Emanate Health entities who signed hospital services and physician agreements with Optum to arbitrate their antitrust suit accusing it of monopolizing a primary care physician market, finding the agreements encompass rules that say issues of arbitrability will be referred to an arbitrator.
Posted: July 23, 2024, 7:51 pm