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One of the most depressing copyright lawsuits in recent memory celebrated its third birthday this month; hopefully it will be its last.

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Tax Litigation: The Week of September 19th, 2022, through September 22nd, 2022 Goddard v. Comm’r; Lee, Goddard, & Duffy, LLP v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo 2022-96| September 19, 2022 |...

The United States District Court for the District of Montana (“Court”) addressed in a May 2021 Order a dispute involving an Environmental Impairment Liability Policy (“EIL”) and a...

PennWatch Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced that Pennsylvania won a major victory in the fight to reclaim more than $10 million of unclaimed property which the Treasury Department has argued was wrongly taken by Delaware. The dispute revolves around “official checks,” a form of money order payment, issued by MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc., to customers who purchased them in Pennsylvania and never cashed them. A Special Master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court found that Delaware improp...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 31, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion amending Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510 governing summary judgment proceedings, to adopt the summary judgment standard articulated by the United States Supreme Court in Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317 (1986); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986); Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574 (1986), but without m...

On December 12, 2020, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Malik v. Attia, 2020 ONCA 787. In this case, the Court of Appeal sent a clear message to judges scheduling motions for partial summary judgment: stop! What is Partial Summary Judgment? Every lawyer has cases that make them think to themselves, “If we could just resolve this one issue, all the other issues would fall into place. ” For example, you’re dealing with a breach of contract case where the vendor failed to...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. One of the tools parties use to shorten the length of civil actions is to resolve their disputes by way of summary judgment. The Supreme Court of Canadas clarion call for timely and affordable justice in Hyrniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, promoted the use of summary judgment as a way to dismiss or allow actions that could be resolved in the context of a “mini-trial”. But motions for summary...