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President Joe Biden, in his State of the Union address before Congress on February 7, 2023, proposed a wealth tax on "billionaires." The lead editorial of The Wall Street Journal for February 11-12, 2023...

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a ruling in Singh v. Uber Technologies Inc. holding that Uber drivers are subject to the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) since they do...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that because Indian tribes are indisputably governments, the Bankruptcy Code unmistakably abrogates their sovereign immunity to bankruptcy court proceedings.

Bankruptcy At issue in the case was whether a debtor in bankruptcy Brian Coughlin can enforce the automatic stay protections against a short term lending company owned by a Wisconsin tribe to prevent alleged collection efforts by the tribal company.

About a decade ago, this blog found that Sixth Circuit judges cited the Second, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits more often than any other circuit.

What federal cour Circuits Have the Most Influence on the Sixth Circuit. What Circuits does the 6th Circuit cite the least the 3rd Circuit was cited more than any other circuit.  The 2nd Circuit and D.C. Circuits were next, and then the 1st and 10th Circuits

Southern District of New York dismissed a privacy litigation brought against a website operator for claims under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act.The VPPA prohibits a video tape service provider from knowingly disclosing personally identifiable information

The Supreme Court recently denied certiorari in a case that presented the issue of whether corporate “tag” jurisdiction, which arises from serving a corporate executive temporarily...

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear the case of Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer  and finally resolve the question of whether “tester” plaintiffs have standing...

The California Assembly introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 51 in late 2018, the latest in a prolonged effort to create legislation that would sidestep the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)...