The Fourth Circuit ruled that final judgment implicitly denies outstanding motions like Rule 56(d) discovery requests, clarifying standards while remanding an excessive force claim. The post When Does a Final Judgment Constitute Denial of a Motion That Was Not Expressly Denied? appeared first on EDRM.| EDRM
The English High Court’s judgment in Learning Curve (NE) Group Ltd v. Richard Lewis and Melanie Probert[1] concerned the alleged breach of warranties and an indemnity in a sale purchase agreement (SPA). The defendants put up a vigorous and multifaceted defence, resulting in an extremely wide-ranging judgment. While much of the analysis is highly fact dependent, two of the issues traversed are worth highlighting – notification of claims under an SPA and service of proceedings.| On the Record
The UK government has launched a review into the opt-out collective actions regime for antitrust law claims. This review comes a decade after the regime’s launch. During this period, the regime has developed significantly, with many claims being issued (now more than 60) and certified amidst much legal wrangling on procedural points. However, despite the proliferation of claims (and a small number of settlements), we …| On the Record
The last couple of years have seen a dramatic rise in the promotion of alternative dispute resolution generally and mediation in particular by the English judiciary. The Court of Appeal in Churchill v. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council[1] held that, contrary to popular belief, the courts had the power to order parties to mediate; the Civil Procedure Rules were duly amended to incorporate that power …| On the Record
Two notable English court judgments on jurisdiction have been handed down in the last few months – the first being the Court of Appeal’s decision in Limbu & Others v. Dyson Technology Ltd & Others[1], and the second the High Court’s decision in da Silva & Others v. Brazil Iron Ltd & Another[2]. Both cases involved group litigation against UK-domiciled companies in respect of the …| On the Record
The decision of the High Court of England and Wales in Durber v. PPB Entertainment Ltd is another helpful case study in how to host a consumer-facing website.[1] It is interesting, given how much time is spent carefully drafting the substance of terms and conditions, that the presentation of those same terms and conditions to consumers can sometimes be an afterthought. If companies do not …| On the Record
In the recent judgment in El-Khouri v. Government of the United States of America,[1] a case concerning the operation of the double criminality rule in the context of extradition, the UK Supreme Court made a seminal ruling on the extraterritorial limits of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).| On the Record
Tai Mo Shan Ltd v. Persons Unknown[1] is the latest in a series of cases in which the English courts have demonstrated their willingness to make practical procedural decisions to assist the victims of crypto fraud. In this case, the High Court of England and Wales granted the claimant permission to serve out of the jurisdiction in order to enforce a judgment of a New …| On the Record
In Federal litigation, the general rule is that the party responding to the Rule 45 subpoena pays the costs and fees associated with responding. Essentially, federal courts see it as a cost of doing business.| LaszloLaw
Tyler Mikulis proposes that courts allow cases with anonymous John Doe defendants "to continue under diversity jurisdiction" but that "plaintiffs ought to be required to make a good faith effort to identify the citizenship of any Doe defendants" and that courts should "allow limited, and temporary, jurisdictional discovery" to permit plaintiffs to do so.| The University of Chicago Law Review Online Archive
Katherine Weaver discusses the Ninth Circuit's refusal in Olean v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC "to adopt a per se rule prohibiting class certification when the putative class contains more than a de minimis number of uninjured class members" and concludes that "lower courts grappling with this issue in the future should take into account the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in Mussat v. IQVIA, Inc." and treat classes as an "entity."| The University of Chicago Law Review Online Archive