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A new federal advisory highlights significant legal gaps around the use of anti-drone technology, making the use of jammers to prevent terrorism or nets to stop corporate espionage a risky proposition. Although the new advisory — the first comprehensive compendium of federal laws related to Continue Reading

U.S. lawmakers are likely to introduce legislation to restrain the market power of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google LLC unit as early as September but whether a bill would pass by the end of 2020 is unclear, experts say. Franklin Turner, an attorney with Continue Reading

Uncertainty abounds in financial markets globally during the coronavirus pandemic, but New Jersey’s government bond market has been steady so far this year, according to data for the first half of the year. Jacqueline Shanes, a public finance partner at McCarter & English in Newark, which Continue Reading

As COVID-19 continues to dominate news headlines, American cities and international businesses are showing their true colors. From innovation in recovery to redrawing the predictions model businesses have adhered to for years, the health and economic crisis has done much more than disrupt the supply Continue Reading

​Two weeks after the shooting death of her son by an attorney who came to her door with a gun, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas of the District of New Jersey has called for a “national dialogue” on safeguarding the privacy of federal judges. In the U.S., a few states, including New Jersey, Continue Reading

Netflix may have made Joe Exotic a household name, but Hollywood Weekly magazine says it made him “The Tiger King.” The magazine sued Netflix for infringing its unregistered trademark rights for “Tiger King”—a moniker it claims it coined in four articles published between 2013 and 2018. It’s Continue Reading

A Centene Corp. shareholder who says she is concerned about poor prison medical care delivered by Centene's subsidiaries asked the Delaware Chancery Court to give her access to the health care company's records so she can investigate potential wrongdoing or breaches of fiduciary Continue Reading

A push to strengthen digital copyright law could end up fortifying what critics say is a weapon that can be wielded to squelch speech. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act shields platforms from copyright liability if they remove infringing content posted by users when notified. The DMCA can Continue Reading

Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo and his commercial partners last week lost a US Federal Circuit appeal in their dispute with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute over the ownership of six patents covering revolutionary cancer immunotherapy methods. The CAFC upheld a Massachusetts district court finding Continue Reading

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has, effective July 1, stopped seeking double damages—referred to as liquidated damages—in many cases that it settles before suing. But it still will seek them in litigation. "With this new announcement, the DOL is essentially providing a carrot to employers Continue Reading