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On January 7, 2022, a split panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the dismissal of claims under Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of...

Plaintiff's derivative suit alleged that Defendants made false and misleading statements in proxy materials from 2017 through 2019 in violation of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act.

A recent ruling by the Seventh Circuit in Seafarers Pension Plan v. Bradway addresses the issue of where shareholder derivative lawsuits may be filed when the company at issue has a forum selection clause in its bylaws.

As discussed in a previous client alert (here), The Boeing Company (Boeing) has faced shareholder litigation arising from the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes.

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As discussed in a previous client alert, The Boeing Company (Boeing) has faced shareholder litigation arising from the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes. In one such derivative...

The First District of the Illinois Appellate Court ruled on Wednesday that a cause of action accrues under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), 740 ILCS 14/1 et seq,...

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Indiana University to mandate coronavirus vaccines for students Thursday, according to the New York Times.

Above the Law readers are offered 1 free CLE course each month, thanks to Lawline. See this month’s offering here. From Lawline Judges stepped in in hundreds of instances to clarify the laws that were constitutional and to strike down laws that violated the Constitution. As with any legal issue that affects the nation, judges had differential roles based on their geographic locations. This post looks at pre-election voting related litigation by analyzing the major players and the hotbeds of l...

THE CHALLENGE: When Jennifer Arguijo was 11 years old, she and her siblings left Honduras to join their mother and stepfather—a US citizen—in the United States. Four years later, she ran away from home to escape her stepfather’s abuse. Her mother later divorced her stepfather and died shortly after. Under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), enacted as part of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a child who has endured domestic violence at the hands of a US citizen...