Marianna Wharry

July 19, 2024 | Daily Business Review

U.S. District Judge John Antoon II issued an order July 15, allowing three of X Social Media's claims against X Corp. to proceed. Antoon agreed with X Social Media's argument claiming its trademark for "X SOCIALMEDIA" was "incontestable" and plausibly alleged the likelihood of consumer confusion.

By Marianna Wharry

3 minute read

July 18, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"As a victim and whistleblower, I am fighting back against campaigns to silence me and retaliate against me for speaking up about sexual violence in chess," said Jennifer Shahade, a two-time national women's chess champion and women chess grand master. "It's been my lifelong mission for women and girls to thrive in this game. I have fought many battles on the chess board and the poker table but this fight for a better chess world is the most important one."

By Marianna Wharry

5 minute read

July 17, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

"The complaint generally alleges the elements for holding a medical provider strictly liable under a defective design theory, and AbbVie has not cited ... to a single case which addresses the pleading requirements in state court," wrote U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch for the District of New Jersey. "In order for a court to find fraudulent joinder, 'it must be impossible for a state court to find that a plaintiff has stated a valid cause of action.'"

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

July 15, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Saul Ewing's Sarah A. Sullivan and Alexander Lee Callo in Newark have recently entered appearances on behalf of an artificial intelligence-driven pharma-tech company sued in a pending securities class action.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

July 12, 2024 | Law.com

At various times throughout his scheme, Richard Louis Crosby III used identifying information belonging to his elderly father, his girlfriend, a deceased man and others to attempt to gain employment at law firms across the country.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

July 11, 2024 | Law.com

"Taken together, the evidence favoring WEX is overwhelming, while the evidence favoring HP is slight," U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. wrote. "Accordingly, the Court concludes that WEX is likely to succeed on the merits in this case because it has demonstrated that consumers are likely to be confused by the launch and promotion of HP WEX."

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

July 10, 2024 | Law.com

Jonathan Youngwood, a partner and global co-chair of Simpson Thacher's Litigation Department, which took on the case pro bono, told Law.com that the plaintiffs have asked U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles to consider their preliminary injunction on an expedited basis.

By Marianna Wharry

3 minute read

July 10, 2024 | Law.com

"It really doesn't make any sense, in terms of judicial efficiency, to pause a case for an interlocutory appeal on a summary judgment motion when the trial is going to be completed this year," said Michelle C. Yau, chair of Cohen Milstein's Employee Benefits/ERISA practice. "What they were asking for was trying to fit a square peg in a round hole."

By Marianna Wharry

3 minute read

July 08, 2024 | Law.com

The complaint stems from GrandeAri's several attempts to register "One Love Manchester," following a deadly bombing attack that occurred at Grande's concert in Manchester, England, in May 2017.

By Marianna Wharry

3 minute read

July 05, 2024 | Law.com

"This hiring mandate, which remains in effect, directs Northwestern Law School to intentionally and consciously discriminate in favor of black, Hispanic, Asian, female, homosexual, and transgender faculty candidates, and against white men who are heterosexual and non transgender," the lawsuit said.

By Marianna Wharry

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