Jan Wolfe

September 23, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Spokane, Wash.-based Gold Reserve Inc. is trumpeting the award and congratulating its lawyers, even as it admits that it wanted a lot more money.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 22, 2014 | Litigation Daily

With a historic trial victory against Arab Bank and an appellate decision reviving claims against NatWest, plaintiffs took the advantage in Anti-Terrorism Act litigation against international financial institutions in New York.

By Jan Wolfe

4 minute read

September 22, 2014 | International Edition

Four months after Europeans gained the right to petition Google Inc. to alter the search results that pop up with their names, the European Commission has begun offering guidelines for how European courts should handle such "right to be forgotten" complaints.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 22, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Telomerase Activation Sciences is still locked in litigation with Brian Egan, a former TAS executive who says the pill-maker's marquee product, TA-65, gave him prostate cancer.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 21, 2014 | Litigation Daily

As part of the settlement, Johnnie Walker will become a corporate sponsor for the New York-based Explorers Club. The deal ends a feud that pitted the club's lawyers at Boies, Schiller & Flexner against counsel for Diageo at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 18, 2014 | Law.com

In its second lawsuit related to requirement for publicly traded oil and gas companies to disclose payments to foreign governments, Oxfam claims the wait for a final version of the rule has gone on far too long.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 18, 2014 | Litigation Daily

The threat of big overtime damages for contract lawyers in New York has been diminished, thanks to a ruling that Stephanie Aranyos and Brian Gershengorn won for Skadden.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 18, 2014 | New York Law Journal

In a win for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday mostly upheld rules on cross-border swaps, rejecting arguments by banking industry trade groups that the agency exceeded its authority by imposing new regulations.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 17, 2014 | Litigation Daily

The Supreme Court's ruling in Daimler v. Bauman arose from claims of torture, kidnapping and murder in Argentina. But the decision holds promise for foreign defendants in all kinds of cases, as the Second Circuit illustrated Wednesday in a battle over funds held by Chinese counterfeiters at Bank of China.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 16, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Another big verdict went up in smoke at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday, when the appeals court ordered a new damages trial in VirnetX Inc.'s patent infringement case against Apple.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read